Environmental Project Manager

Who We Are

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Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that helps public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure.

Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.

As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits.

We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interests to help clients achieve project goals.

We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.

At Dudek, we abide by shared values :

• Trust : We trust each other to use good judgment.
• Respect : We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
• Teamwork : We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
• Fun : We take our work seriously not ourselves.
• Well-Being : We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.

Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include :

• DuGreen : Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint.
• DuGood : Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving, and the opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
• eDUcate : Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
• DuWell : Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care.

At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust, and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm.

Dudek's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek’s work community more inclusive.

We proudly support our 4 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) :

• Women at Dudek
• Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
• Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)

Learn more about our culture.

About The Job

Dudek is seeking an Environmental Project Manager to be a team leader for permitting, planning, and construction compliance services with a focus on energy development projects throughout the Mountain West.

This is a hybrid position associated with our Denver office. The individual will be self-driven with a proven track record implementing all phases of the project development process with a focus on land use entitlements, cultural resources management, wildlife and aquatic resources permitting.

The candidate will have experience with early-stage due-diligence review, permitting projects with multiple agencies and stakeholders, preconstruction processing, construction support, and O&M services.

Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.

Who You Are

To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, and flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker.

We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below) :

• Promote a culture of teamwork, engagement, quality service, and customer satisfaction to our clients.
• Foster client connections through existing client relationships and proactive business development while working with others to anticipate and pursue work.
• Enhance Dudek’s professional reputation and demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative with these tasks while representing Dudek in a professional manner.
• Prepare land use entitlement packages, water permitting packages, environmental technical reports, critical issues analysis, and lead stakeholder outreach programs.
• Lead the preparation, organization, and production of environmental compliance management plans, permit applications, and other environmental documents to guide compliance implementation during the project lifecycle.
• Work with project team members to track environmental commitments to support the implementation of permit conditions on a variety of projects.
• Coordinate with clients, field personnel, and environmental resource specialists to ensure permit conditions are implemented during construction.
• Prepare bid documents and proposals.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, or other related field.
• Experience permitting energy projects throughout all stages of the project.
• Familiarity with local, state, and federal permitting.
• Must demonstrate strong technical writing and research skills as well as solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and have active personal automobile liability insurance by the first day of employment.
• As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment : pre-employment drug test and background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with U.S. Army Corp of Engineers permitting regulations under the Clean Water Act (404 and 401) and wildlife agencies throughout the Mountain West.
• Knowledge of land use policies throughout the Mountain West including but not limited to the 1041 Environmental Permitting Process and the Wyoming Industrial Siting Permitting Process.
• Customarily and regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.
• Self-motivated with an interest to learn and grow as a project team.

Physical Requirements

Working Conditions :

• This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
• This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles, and equipment.

Physical Requirements : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
• This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc.

Speaking, hearing, and listening are required.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Proposed Salary Range : $90,000-$120,000 annually*

Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.

Perks of Being a Dudekian

At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work life balance.

Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to discretionary bonuses based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance.

We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog-friendly offices! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages for both salaried and hourly employees.

If you’re tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.

Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.

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