Labella Associates
Senior Environmental Engineer
Brooklyn, New York, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$200kDetected 23 days ago
Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentProcurementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringPE License
About the role
- Our Brooklyn office offers the agility, collaboration, and visibility of a growing boutique practice, backed by the resources of a national employee-owned company.
- For the right candidate, this is a significant leadership opportunity with meaningful influence on client relationships, technical strategy, staff development, and the continued growth of LaBella's NYC environmental practice.
Responsibilities
- Client Service & Business Development Build, maintain, and expand strong client relationships across private development, affordable housing, institutional, public-sector, infrastructure, legal, and industrial markets.
- Identify and pursue strategic business development opportunities, including brownfield redevelopment, remedial design, vapor mitigation, PFAS, environmental engineering, expert support, and construction-phase environmental services.
- Prepare and lead proposals, scopes of work, cost estimates, project budgets, qualifications packages, interviews, and responses to RFPs and RFQs.
- Maintain strong working relationships with regulatory agencies, attorneys, developers, contractors, teaming partners, and other project stakeholders.
- Technical Leadership Lead complex environmental investigation and remediation projects, including NYSDEC Brownfield Cleanup Program projects, NYC E-Designation projects, Phase II ESAs, NYSDEC spill sites, remedial investigations, alternatives analyses, remedial designs, and construction-phase environmental work.
- Lead design and feasibility evaluations for remedial technologies, including excavation and off-site disposal, in-situ chemical oxidation/reduction, thermal remediation, sub-slab depressurization systems, groundwater treatment, PFAS treatment, and other site-specific remedial approaches.
- Develop, review, and optimize engineering controls, remedial system designs, automation, monitoring programs, operation and maintenance plans, and long-term performance monitoring strategies.
- Prepare, review, and manage technical deliverables, including work plans, remedial investigation reports, alternatives analyses, remedial action work plans, remedial design documents, construction specifications, closure reports, and regulatory submittals.
- Provide technical review of environmental data, design assumptions, remedial alternatives, cost estimates, construction documentation, and regulatory strategy.
- Support litigation, claims, expert witness, technical advisory, and dispute-related assignments, as needed.
Requirements
- Ability to visit and oversee work at active construction, redevelopment, remediation, and environmental project sites.
- Ability to travel locally for project meetings, client meetings, field visits, regulatory meetings, and industry events.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds at a time, as needed.
- New York State Professional Engineer license required.
- Demonstrated experience with NYSDEC Brownfield Cleanup Program projects, Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, remedial investigations, alternatives analyses, remedial design, and remedial implementation.
- Preferred Qualifications M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, or a related field.
Nice to have
- M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, or a related field.
- Experience with NYC E-Designation projects, NYSDEC Spill Program projects, Superfund/CERCLA sites, and complex urban redevelopment projects.
- Demonstrated seller-doer experience, including client development, repeat work, proposal leadership, and/or new revenue generation.
- Experience with in-situ remediation, thermal remediation, PFAS treatment, vapor mitigation, engineering controls, groundwater treatment, remedial system optimization, automation, and long-term monitoring.
- Established relationships within the NYC real estate, affordable housing, public agency, institutional, infrastructure, industrial, legal, or redevelopment markets.
Skills
- LaBella is a 100% employee-owned, multi-disciplinary consulting firm with the technical depth, resources, and stability of a larger firm.
- Oversee field programs, including soil, groundwater, soil vapor, surface water, and remedial construction activities.
Compensation
- $165,000 - $200,000 Salary will be commensurate with experience, technical qualifications, professional licensure, client-management experience, business-development capabilities, remedial design expertise, and relevant New York City / New York State environmental consulting experience.
- Our benefit offerings cover the must-haves (healthcare and retirement), the just-in-cases (insurances and employee assistance programs), and the cherry-on-tops (fitness reimbursements, year-end incentive pay, and tuition assistance).
Benefits
- Required Education & Qualifications B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
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