Job description

The Senior Transmission Permitting Specialist is responsible for evaluating federal, state, and local environmental permitting requirements, and gaining required permits, specifically sediment and erosion control/stormwater preparation plans (SWPPP) and stormwater permitting for transmission capital project work concerning regulated electric transmission substations and lines.

Responsibilities Include:

• Responsible for providing functional direction in preparing and obtaining environmental, erosion control / stormwater, and construction permits for federal, state, and local regulatory agencies
• Provide compliance assurance support to the Transmission Construction team that ongoing projects are in compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
• Serve on project teams, attend meetings and site visits, and develop permitting scope and schedule for variety of projects.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of permitting regulations and compliance requirements and their impact to Transmission projects.
• Work with minimal supervision to determine and develop approaches to design and permitting issues.
• Serves as environmental permitting expert for capital Transmission projects and collaborate with multiple work groups to provide specialized technical design expertise and judgment to resolve complex permitting issues.
• Maintain project schedules and accountability for meeting specified schedules for permitting tasks.
• Track project schedules and tasks.
• Closeout of permits, including coordination with agencies, once construction is complete.
• Develop processes, find efficiencies / improvements, and maintain appropriate permit records.
• Develop processes and maintain appropriate permit records as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or other related field of study
• Minimum of 8 years of experience
• Proficient in obtaining local, state, and federal environmental permits including erosion and sediment & erosion control plans and Army Corps of Engineers US 404/401 permits.
• Knowledge AutoCAD Civil 3D and ArcGIS.
• Able to pass a pre-employment criminal history check.
• Pass a DOT drug screen.
• Eligible to work in the United States.
• Hold's a valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent negotiating skills with regulators and the public regarding the environmental permitting of land development projects
• Ten years of experience supporting site civil and/or land development environmental permitting within multiple regulatory jurisdictions.
• Professional certification/ license (i.e. CPESC, QEP, PWS..)
• Demonstrate ability to successfully influence outcome with a high level of collaboration.
• Substantial experience gaining environmental land development permits in North and South Carolina
• Experience working for an electric utility
• Professional certification/ license (i.e. CPESC, QEP, PWS, Professional Engineer, Professional Landscape Architect.)
• Demonstrate ability to successfully influence outcome with a high level of collaboration.
• Experience supporting and managing land-development projects and/or linear construction projects.
• Experience obtaining regulatory approvals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and NC DEQ/ SC DHEC, with working knowledge of U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and State Historic Preservation Officer permitting requirements.
• Experience preparing erosion control plan drawings, stormwater permits, and obtaining plan approval from NC DEQ/ SC DHEC.
• Experience obtaining floodplain /floodway permits

Contract: 12/05/2022 to 12/05/2025

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Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: From $53.79 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Raleigh, NC 27601: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Erosional permitting: 8 years (Required)
• Environmental Permiting: 8 years (Required)

Work Location: One location

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