Associate Air Quality Consultant

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Are you an individual who takes pride in delivering exceptional work? Currently, Brown and Caldwell has a job opportunity in one of our nationwide offices for a self-motivated Associate Air Quality Consultant to join the Air Permitting Services team. We are seeking a motivated, achievement-oriented individual who stays informed regarding the changing regulatory landscape for air permitting. This person can help us fulfill our commitment to deliver client success on each and every project we undertake. You will work with nationally recognized, senior technical staff, providing technical support to projects nation-wide.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical, written, verbal, and interpersonal skills. We are looking for someone that is highly organized and capable of working with a diverse team of scientists and engineers on multiple tasks with competing priorities. The successful candidate will have a positive, can-do attitude; will be flexible and self-motivated, creative and well-organized, and quality-oriented with attention to detail. Projects needing support include air quality compliance strategy, permitting and reporting for private sector industrial and commercial facilities, as well as municipal utilities. Experience with greenhouse gas reporting is a plus. Engaging as part of an overall environmental compliance and permitting team is key, including collaboration with other practitioners to develop a holistic environmental engineering solutions. This position will support junior level air practitioners, developing technical solutions for clients' needs, leading technical approaches, problem solving, and providing technical leadership. This position has the opportunity to provide technical support to a growing team to support air permitting and compliance services nationally for our clients as part of an overall Compliance and Permitting practice. Specific duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serving as technical lead for air permitting projects including developing potential to emit calculations, regulatory applicability evaluations, and permit application materials for both industrial and municipal sites.
• Conducting regulatory research, interpreting and summarizing relevant requirements and communicating directly to the project team and/or client.
• Developing technical memorandums to communicate permitting strategies for client consideration.
• Evaluating applicability of air emissions regulations for specific emission sources.
• Preparation of greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
• Conducting site visits at commercial, industrial, and municipal facilities to support development of emissions inventories, permitting applicability evaluations, permit applications, and compliance audits.
• Interacting and communicating directly with clients on behalf of Brown and Caldwell and with regulators on behalf on the client.
• Working independently and with national teams to complete assignments with other team members in a virtual platform.
• Ability and willingness to travel to support regional and national client teams.
• Working with internal Client Service Teams in assisting in developing client relationships and preparing proposals.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in air quality compliance work with progressive responsibilities, including client engagement and business development.
• Clean Air Act permitting (including Title V) and compliance experience required.
• Knowledge of local, State and federal air emissions regulatory framework required.
• Northwest permitting experience required
• Previous experience communicating with clients and regulatory agency staff.
• BS Degree in Engineering (e.g., Civil, Environmental, Chemical, Material Science) or Science (e.g., Atmospheric, Environmental, Meteorological, Chemistry, Toxicology, Data Science) required.
• Ability to execute a project from start to finish from developing scope of work to project delivery required.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and basic computer skills required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining a strong focus on health and safety.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate with and support other air practitioners.
• Ability to mentor and train junior staff on air quality projects.
• Ability to motivate others and lead project teams to deliver high quality work consistent with scope, schedule and budget commitments.
• Strong chemistry skills preferred.
• MS degree and/or Professional engineering experience a plus.
• Dispersion modeling experience preferred.
• Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Non-attainment New Source Review experience a plus.
• Incinerator permitting a plus

Salary Range:Theanticipatedstarting payrange for this position is based on the employee's primary work location and maybemore or lessdependingupon skills, experience,and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Location C:

Salary: $116,000 - $158,000

You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.

Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.

About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 50 offices and 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice-to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com

This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

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