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As Regional Manager of Environmental Services, you have strong leadership skills as well as a great eye for detail. You are heavily skilled with both leading your team and working with clients.  Leading your team by example is second nature to you – through excellent assessments, studies and reports.  You have a passion for all things environmental – principals, applications, permitting processes, regulations and test methods.  You are extremely hard working and strive to ensure that your team delivers the best quality. You get the “big” picture and want to contribute accordingly – and that’s why you’ll have all the opportunity for career growth within our company you’ll want. 

Engineering Consulting Services (ECS) is seeking a Regional Manager of Environmental to lead our Industrial Hygiene team. This role is responsible for the financial success, business development, and staff leadership of the environmental department across the region. The ideal candidate brings strong managerial experience, technical credibility in industrial hygiene consulting, and a proven ability to build client relationships and grow the business. This position combines strategic oversight with hands-on leadership of department managers and staff.

Key Responsibilities:
Regional Management

• Lead your region to financial success through sustainable growth and profitability with a strong emphasis on business development and marketing initiatives
• Monitor regional operational finances relative to each environmental department’s operations (including profit, loss, and accounts receivable for each department)
• Performance of technical field work including hazardous materials surveys, air sampling, moisture intrusion investigations, and indoor air quality assessments
• Industrial health and safety
• OSHA compliance
• Asbestos, mold, lead-based paint, and indoor air quality
• Maintaining a safe work environment for you and your co-workers
• Evaluate market opportunities, trends, and successes in other regions and apply best management practices within your area where appropriate
• Assist in the strategic direction and oversight of assigned regional marketing and business development personnel where appropriate
• Lead Department Managers within your region
• Support department managers with monitoring and reviewing current and projected workloads to determine if the overall staff level is appropriate. This review includes the number of staff, experience levels, and technical knowledge.
• Participate in the recruitment of strategic personnel
• Train and lead employees to achieve business objectives
• Train junior staff and managing projects with one or more field technicians on-site
• Respond and assist department managers in evaluating complex scope of work opportunities and assigning the appropriate personnel to complete the tasks
• Monitor load leveling of resources throughout the region
• Manage project budgets and prepare monthly invoices

Client Interaction & Team Collaboration

• Monitor marketing and business development strategies, including proposal generation and rates
• Seek project leads and business development opportunities and promote the ECS brand
• Build team-oriented relationships with the environmental, local office, regional marketing, and business development staff to provide support in seeking out business opportunities
• Participate in regional trade associations, attend trade association conferences, and regional market segmentation groups to provide leadership and seek out project opportunities
• Promote teamwork and the company-wide resources available
• Client management and development
• Representing ECS at industry marketing events and conferences

Documentation & Reporting

• Facilitate the completion of Regional Proposals and Regional SOQ responses by assigned deadlines
• Proposal and report preparation and peer review

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor and/or Master of Science in Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Environmental Engineering, Geology, or other related environmental degree applicable to environmental consulting
• 5+ years of managerial experience
• 10+ years of Industrial Hygiene related experience
• CIH, CIEC, or REM strongly preferred
• Experience with industrial health and safety, OSHA compliance, asbestos, mold, lead-based paint, and indoor air quality is preferred

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #60 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms (April 2026), #148 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2025) and #50 in Zweig Group’s Hot Firm List (May 2025). For additional information about ECS, visit: www.ecslimited.com.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, click here.

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #60 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms (April 2026), #148 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2025) and #50 in Zweig Group’s Hot Firm List (May 2025). For additional information about ECS, visit: www.ecslimited.com.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, click here.