(Senior) Environmental Engineer (Director Level)

J.S. Held LLC is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise. They are seeking a Senior Environmental Engineer / Senior Technical Director to lead waste management and remediation projects, develop client relationships, and provide technical leadership in environmental liability advisory services.

Responsibilities:

• Independently originate, pursue, and secure remediation, environmental liability, and waste management engagements without reliance on internally sourced work
• Serve as primary client owner with accountability for repeat work, client expansion, and long-term relationships
• Develop opportunities across insurance, industrial, energy, manufacturing, and transactional advisory clients, including work related to remediation, liability evaluation, redevelopment, and long‑term environmental programs
• Lead large, complex waste and remediation programs, including multi‑site portfolios, corrective action sites, redevelopment‑driven remediation, CCR facilities, landfills, and long‑term programmatic engagements
• Manage projects originated directly by the Senior Technical Director from pursuit through execution and closure
• Maintain responsibility for scope control, budgeting, scheduling, and profitability
• Provide senior technical leadership on remediation strategy, corrective action, regulatory negotiation, and closure planning
• Lead development of conceptual site models, remedial alternatives analyses, cost-to-closure estimates, and liability frameworks
• Collaborate with hydrogeology, geochemistry, risk, and transactional advisory teams
• Interface directly with regulators (EPA, state agencies, and others) on remedial strategy, permitting, and closure
• Support clients in enforcement, consent orders, corrective action, and redevelopment negotiations
• Supports clients on the technical aspects of environmental due diligence and transaction advisory, including environmental liability assessment, remediation risk evaluation, and pre- and post-acquisition planning
• Provide remediation and regulatory strategy in support of redevelopment and brownfield projects, including coordination with development schedules and closure milestones
• Provide advisory support related to environmental claims, including review and validation of remediation costs and technical support to insurance and legal stakeholders
• Mentor and develop technical staff while building a sustainable pipeline of work to support utilization and growth

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Geology, Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related field; advanced degrees and professional licensure (PG, PE) preferred
• 10 – 15+ years of consulting experience in waste management, remediation, corrective action, or environmental liability advisory
• Demonstrated experience with regulatory frameworks such as RCRA, CERCLA, CCR Rule, state corrective action programs, and risk-based closure
• Proven track record of originating consulting work and sustaining long-term client relationships in an external consulting environment
• Demonstrated ability to articulate an active pipeline of client opportunities within waste, remediation, and environmental liability services
• Experience serving as primary client contact with responsibility for pursuit strategy, pricing, and repeat work
• Ability to manage complex technical projects while maintaining profitability and schedule discipline
• Strong technical writing, QA/QC, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated business judgment related to opportunity selection, client development, and service-line growth
• Ability to travel as needed
• Experience supporting transaction advisory, insurance, or redevelopment engagements where remediation strategy, cost uncertainty, and regulatory outcomes materially affect client decisions