Environmental & Natural Resources Manager - Barge Design Solutions

Environmental & Natural Resources Manager

Career Area: Science

What We're Looking For:
Barge Design Solutions is currently seeking an Environmental & Natural Resources Manager in the Environmental & Natural Resources division at our Gainesville, FL office location. This position will be responsible for managing and growing our environmental resources team throughout Florida region.

This position will report to the Director of Environmental & Natural Resources and will be highly visible in a company that prefers to promote from within. The optimal candidate will help grow this department with excellent staff management, communication, organizational, and technical skills. There is a strong career path for this position and Barge provides great future opportunities and career development.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Senior level leadership and review. Be able to effectively manage and schedule multiple staff in several locations across Florida while collaborating with peers in other states across the Barge's footprint. Coordinate staff and assign tasks to meet milestones and deadlines.
• Supports and grows a multidisciplinary team to provide environmental services including but not limited to environmental permitting, wetland mitigation banking, species banking, water quality project design and implementation, energy sector projects, DOT sector projects, coastal resiliency, land management, wetland delineations and jurisdictional determinations, and habitat assessments.
• Efficiently identify issues and problem-solve in order to avoid delays. Mentor staff and promote culture of high expectations in regard to quality of deliverables, safety, and a positive and energetic working environment.
• Supports ongoing Natural Resources projects including wetland mitigation/restoration, wetland delineations, protected species habitat assessments and surveys, water quality projects, aggregate and peat mining projects, renewable energy projects, and Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404/401 permitting.
• Prepares natural resources technical reports, and other environmental regulatory compliance documents
  Manage local wetland/environmental subs on large projects where local teaming is required.
• Assists with the development of proposal scope and fees, assists project managers with project completion with regards to client communication, staff/equipment management, budget, schedule and quality requirements.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in applicable field such as biology, ecology, environmental science/policy, environmental engineering, natural resources planning or a closely related discipline
• 5 plus years of experience in staff management, preferred
• 10 plus years of experience in technical writing and field efforts including environmental permitting, mitigation banking/restoration projects in the coastal southeast on both Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
• Master's degree, a plus
• Experience in FDOT requirements
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced-collaborative team atmosphere with an established group of engineers, scientists, surveyors and administrative staff
• Light travel (25%) is required

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 550+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)'s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record's Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company's core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate - Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic - Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible - We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence - We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service - We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled