Senior Environmental Manager

Cypress Creek Renewables is seeking a Senior Environmental Manager to lead environmental diligence and permitting for utility-scale solar and battery storage projects. Responsibilities include overseeing regulatory processes, managing project schedules and budgets, and engaging with local, state, and federal authorities. The role involves collaboration with various internal teams and external consultants, requiring travel as needed. The position is open to candidates in multiple locations, including remote options.
Location: Nevada
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Senior Environmental Manager at Cypress Creek Renewables (View all jobs) ()

San Francisco, CA, Santa Monica, CA or open to WA, CO, NV

The Company

Cypress Creek Renewables is one of the leading clean electricity infrastructure developers and power producers in the country. From development to construction to operations, we create projects that benefit communities for decades. As a leader in large-scale solar and storage development, Cypress Creek seeks a diverse group of innovative and driven thinkers and doers from all backgrounds. We hope you will join us.

The Role

Responsible for leading and executing on environmental diligence and strategic permitting processes, directing and developing strategic regulatory guidance to internal teams and financing counter parties, and providing compliance support to construction divisions and operation divisions in support of our utility-scale solar and battery storage development portfolio and existing fleet in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest Regions of the U.S.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and oversee local, state, and federal environmental survey and permitting processes for utility-scale solar and battery storage projects in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest Regions of the U.S., such as WA, NV, and AZ.

• Organize and track ongoing tasks, deliverables, project schedules, and budgets across multiple projects and states through the communication, contract award, field survey coordination, and results stages.

• As part of the Policy and Permitting team, assist Development, Origination, Engineering, Grid Integration, and other support teams in understanding the practical implications of permitting, mitigation negotiation, and targeted resource studies for development, acquisition opportunities, project financing activities, and policies for ensuring project permitting compliance.

• Lead and engage with local, state, and federal regulatory authorities, including land and wildlife agencies, on a regular basis to assist in the successful execution of project permitting and compliance activities, and to negotiate mitigation requirements.

• Manage the work product of external consultants on multiple projects, which may include leading an RFP process and which will include development of standard scopes for quality work product and standard environmental diligence processes, targeted natural resource studies, and complex permitting support.

• Review technical reports, including Phase I ESAs, wetland and waterway delineations, habitat evaluations, threatened/endangered/sensitive species surveys, as well as plans for management of environmental matters during construction and operations, including SPCC, waste management plans, and construction oversight plans for compliance with natural resource and archaeological and cultural resource protection and mitigation requirements.

• Participate in regional and national initiatives, symposia, conferences, and industry groups as needed to achieve CCR objectives.

• Establish and build relationships with key stakeholders, including regulators and other external consultants.

• Travel as needed to meet with regulators and/or stakeholders and visit project sites.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Biology, Land Use Planning, Ecology, Engineering, or an Environmental-related field from an accredited college/university.

• Experience and expertise interpreting federal and state environmental laws (e.g., ESA, NEPA, CWA, etc.), guidelines, and policies.

• 5+ years professional experience in environmental permitting and/or compliance in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest Regions of the U.S. Experience in WA, NV, and/or AZ desired.

• Experience in construction and operational compliance support, including, but not limited to: SPCC, CCP, E&SC, and SWPPP, a plus.

• Strong task management and organizational skills.

• Self-directed and detail-oriented, with the ability and desire to work effectively in a team environment.

• Able to act and adapt to a fast-paced business environment with competing deadlines.

• Ability to…