Senior Director – Environmental Liability Management

Talen Energy

Senior Director managing Talen Energy's environmental liability portfolio, ensuring financial outcomes and compliance. Overseeing remediation strategies and regulatory relationships for a $400 million portfolio.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeAllentown • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end delivery and financial outcome of Talen’s environmental liability portfolio, including total cost, spend timing, and free cash flow impact
Serve as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and risk, including risks arising from regulatory changes, technical uncertainty, stakeholder actions, litigation exposure, or market conditions
Develop and maintain short- and long-term remediation strategies that integrate execution plans with financial objectives, risk mitigation, and capital allocation priorities
Identify and implement opportunities to reduce total remediation cost, offset scope growth without incremental cost, and/or improve spend timing
Provide oversight of liability operations responsible for safe, compliant, and cost-effective remediation, including integration with plant staff to avoid operations disruptions
Establish and enforce quantitative project-level performance standards for key objectives, including cost, schedule, risk, and contingency management, and implement processes to achieve such standards
Ensure early identification and mitigation of risks that could drive cost overruns or schedule delays
Coordinate with Corporate Environmental, Legal, FP&A, Accounting/Settlements, Regulatory, and External Affairs to support accurate financial reporting and compliant execution
Manage relationships with regulators, governmental entities, and external stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience managing complex remediation or environmental liability portfolios
Minimum of ten (10) years of experience with progressively increasing accountability for cost, schedule, and financial outcomes
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or a closely related field
MBA or other advanced business-related degree preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial analysisrisk managementremediation strategiescost managementschedule managementproject performance standardscapital allocationregulatory compliancestakeholder managementenvironmental liability management

Soft Skills

accountabilitycommunicationrelationship managementstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingleadershiporganizational skillsnegotiationcollaborationadaptability