Senior Environmental Compliance Leader

Take Your Environmental Career to the Next Level

Are you ready to be challenged, make a difference, and experience professional growth in your career? Kleinfelder's Environmental team is looking for you! From environmental planning, permitting, remediation, and site characterization to chemical data management and hydrogeology, Kleinfelder offers a variety of services designed to provide technically appropriate and cost‑effective solutions.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Environmental Compliance Leader in our Environmental Department. This position is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team, working collaboratively with other disciplines to achieve client and professional satisfaction. Project work is diverse, covering several industrial sectors. The right candidate can work remotely from any of our Southeast locations.

• Charlotte, NC
• Atlanta, GA
• Raleigh, NC

The successful candidate will direct technical environmental compliance programs and projects of varying size, lead a team of staff in various environmental compliance activities primarily for our mining, industrial and energy clients. Must be able to work independently, using knowledge of industry and/or professional guidelines and protocols to accomplish goals and objectives and solve problems of diverse scope. The position requires team leadership, project management, business development, and client engagement in support of our clients in Georgia and the Carolinas.

The successful candidate will be highly technical with excellent data management and regulatory interpretation skills, strategic thinking to identify and apply logical solutions, ability to understand and apply engineering calculations and quality control procedures, good writing and organization capabilities, ability to work independently or as part of a larger group with capacity to support multiple assignments. The ideal candidate will have a self‑doer mentality and be able to engage clients, deliver value and generate additional opportunities.

This position may be based out of Atlanta, Georgia or Charlotte, or Raleigh, North Carolina, and includes the potential for partial remote work. Some overnight travel may be required for this position.

• Air quality permitting, emissions inventories, Title V, and NESHAP compliance including NSR and BACT evaluations.
• Select and recommend techniques, procedures and criteria to perform technical tasks, studies and analysis.
• Prepare wastewater permit applications.
• Prepare SWPPP and SPCC plans.
• Project management experience.
• Conduct multi‑media environmental compliance audits.
• Ability to effectively manage, drive, deliver and review proposals and reports.

• Bachelor of Science degree in environmental sciences, environmental or chemical engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in any of the disciplines listed above.
• Advanced writing skills and high degree of proficiency in mathematics and problem‑solving.
• Ability to occasionally travel out of town.
• Project, client and team management experience, PMP a plus.
• Professional Engineering, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager or other professional certifications a plus.

Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays.

We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.

Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules).

Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Design, Science, and Engineering
• Civil Engineering, Environmental Services, and Utilities