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Lead Complex Environmental Permitting Projects that Shape Sustainable Infrastructure

ERM is seeking an experienced Managing Consultant, Scientist to join our Capital Project Delivery (CPD) service line in our Boston, Massachusetts office. In this high-impact role, you will provide senior technical leadership and project management expertise across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and development projects, helping clients achieve successful permitting strategies and regulatory approvals while advancing sustainable outcomes.

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical in ensuring that complex infrastructure, energy, and public-sector projects navigate regulatory landscapes effectively while protecting environmentally sensitive resources. As a senior advisor, you will guide clients through permitting processes and help deliver solutions that balance development and environmental stewardship.

What Your Impact Is

• Lead environmental permitting efforts for infrastructure, energy, renewable energy, water, and public-sector projects.

• Prepare and manage permit applications, regulatory submissions, and supporting technical documentation.

• Obtain environmental approvals and guide projects through regulatory processes.

• Mentor and oversee wetland delineations, ecological assessments, habitat evaluations, and environmental field investigations as needed.

• Provide technical expertise related to wetland restoration, coastal wetland protection, and regulatory compliance.

• Evaluate project impacts to wetlands, waterways, and other sensitive ecological resources.

• Develop mitigation strategies and permitting approaches to support successful project approvals.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects from planning through permitting and construction support.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, schedules, budgets, and client communications.

• Develop scopes of work, proposals, cost estimates, and execution plans.

• Serve as a key point of contact for clients, regulatory agencies, municipalities, and stakeholders.

• Build and maintain relationships with conservation commissions, state agencies, and federal regulators.

• Provide strategic guidance on environmental regulations and permitting pathways.

• Support business development and contribute to growth initiatives.

For theManaging Consultant, Scientist position, theanticipatedannual base pay is$92,500-$124,245(USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees arenot bonuseligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

Note:Bonuses, commissions, and other forms ofadditionalcompensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world's leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainabilitychallengesand unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse,equitableand inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our companya great placeto build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class expertssupportsclients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technicalexpertisein addressing their environmental, health, safety,riskand social issues. We call this capability our "boots to boardroom" approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advanceobjectiveson the ground or at the executive level.

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