Senior consultant, renewables

Drive Complex Renewable Energy Projects That Shape a More Sustainable Future

ERM is seeking a Senior Consultant, Renewables to support the planning, permitting, and execution of renewable energy, power, transmission, and technology-sector infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest and western United States.

Why This Role Matters?

In this role, you will help coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage project delivery activities, support regulatory compliance efforts, and contribute to the successful advancement of projects that are critical to the energy transition and sustainable infrastructure development.

What Your Impact Is:

As renewable energy and technology-sector infrastructure continue to expand across the western United States, successful project delivery depends on effective coordination, regulatory expertise, and strong stakeholder engagement. This role provides an opportunity to work alongside experienced environmental professionals while supporting complex projects that help clients navigate permitting requirements, environmental review processes, and project execution challenges.

What You'll Bring:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, environmental science, environmental planning, natural resources, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of relevant environmental consulting, permitting, planning, or project delivery experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting project management and coordination, including document preparation, agency and client coordination, meeting facilitation and note-taking, scheduling, budget tracking, and quality review.
• Working knowledge of environmental review, permitting, and regulatory compliance requirements applicable to infrastructure projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with clients, agencies, technical specialists, and project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to organize multidisciplinary work, manage competing priorities, and meet project deadlines.
• Experience facilitating project meetings, tracking decisions and action items, and escalating risks or constraints appropriately.
• Ability to mentor junior staff and contribute to a collaborative, quality-focused team environment.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

• Experience working with federal, state, and local agencies in the western United States, particularly in Washington and Oregon.
• Familiarity with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and other applicable environmental review and permitting requirements.
• Experience supporting solar, wind, battery energy storage, transmission, data center, or other power and technology infrastructure projects.
• Experience with agency coordination, permit applications, environmental review documents, and natural-resource technical studies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and coordinate federal, state, and local permitting for renewable energy, power, transmission, battery energy storage, data center, and other technology-sector infrastructure projects.
• Assist Project Managers with scope, schedule, budget, risk, and deliverable tracking.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical studies and document reviews to support regulatory compliance and timely project delivery.
• Support preparation of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Environmental Assessments and other federal, state, and local environmental review documents.
• Review technical documents addressing potential impacts to soil, vegetation, wildlife, wetlands, water resources, and other environmental resources.
• Coordinate communication among clients, technical teams, agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Lead project coordination meetings, document decisions and action items, monitor progress, and identify issues requiring escalation.
• Prepare and review technical reports, permit applications, meeting summaries, presentations, and client briefings.
• Support resolution of technical, regulatory, and project delivery challenges to maintain project momentum.
• Mentor junior staff and support consistent delivery of high-quality work.

Who We Are:

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to 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 experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and 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 advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!