Environmental Project Manager – Electrical Transmission, Renewable Energy

Stantec

Environmental Project Manager at Stantec providing regulatory services for electric transmission, solar, wind, and battery energy storage projects. Leading project management and environmental assessments across multiple states.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeMadison • Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects through environmental assessments, permitting, agency coordination, compliance, and reporting.
Exercise independent judgment, initiative, and in-depth evaluation of technical, regulatory, schedule, budget, and stakeholder factors to address unusual or complex issues.
Coordinate with clients, stakeholders, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary internal project teams to develop practical, science-based solutions.
Represent clients at public hearings, open houses, regulatory agency meetings, and other forums where technical information must be communicated clearly and confidently.
Develop project proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and delivery strategies for medium to complex environmental projects.
Write, review, and integrate complex, multidisciplinary technical reports for external clients, regulatory filings, desktop assessments, field surveys, and public-facing documents.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of ten years of related environmental consulting, permitting, regulatory, or project management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
Demonstrated experience managing complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects, including electric transmission, wind, solar, battery energy storage, biogas, or related infrastructure projects.
Recognized technical expertise in one or more areas of environmental science, permitting, regulatory strategy, natural resource assessments, routing and siting, environmental compliance, or related disciplines.
Working knowledge of environmental sciences, biology, wildlife science, wetlands, land use, environmental justice, cultural resources, and related technical areas, with the ability to integrate information across disciplines.
Ability to work under minimal supervision with broad guidelines, exercise independent judgment, and resolve unusual or complex technical, regulatory, project delivery, or client service issues.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing as a subject matter expert and the ability to present information in public or client-facing forums.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 15% for agency meetings, open houses, public hearings, site visits, client events, and conferences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth.
Opportunity to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support.
Extensive nationwide portfolio of transmission, wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects that we have helped to bring online.
Opportunities for development in environmental services and engineering with staff located throughout the country.
Join a team of over 3,000 environmental professionals located in over 170 offices throughout the US.
Work with recognized experts who have dedicated their careers to electrical transmission and renewable energy project development.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Environmental AssessmentsPermittingRegulatory StrategyNatural Resource AssessmentsRouting and SitingEnvironmental ComplianceTechnical Report WritingBudget DevelopmentProject Proposal DevelopmentComplex Problem Solving

Soft Skills

Independent JudgmentInitiativeStrong Communication SkillsClient Service OrientationTeam Collaboration