Description
Lead planning, coordination, and oversight of construction programs with a focus on environmental compliance and sustainability. Direct organization, scheduling, budgeting, permitting, and implementation through subordinate managers, while establishing environmental strategies, risk controls, and performance metrics across a project portfolio. Collaborate with owners, designers, contractors, and regulators to deliver safe, high-quality, and environmentally responsible facilities.
- • Plan and manage program-level schedules, budgets, and scopes for environmentally focused construction projects.
- • Confer with supervisory personnel, owners, contractors, designers, and regulators to resolve environmental and construction issues.
- • Set environmental performance goals, KPIs, and reporting standards across projects.
- • Develop and implement environmental management plans, including SWPPP, erosion and sediment control, and waste minimization.
- • Inspect and audit sites to verify compliance with environmental, building, and safety codes.
- • Define permitting strategies and obtain required federal, state, and local environmental and construction permits.
- • Integrate green building strategies to reduce energy, water use, carbon emissions, and waste.
- • Prepare and manage program budgets, forecasts, and progress and compliance reports.
- • Evaluate construction methods and materials for environmental impact and cost-effectiveness using models and life-cycle cost analysis.
- • Identify environmental risks and implement mitigation and contingency plans for weather or site emergencies.
- • Coordinate environmental site assessments, feasibility studies, and conceptual cost estimates.
- • Secure and manage third-party green certifications, such as LEED or Envision.
- • Develop and enforce quality assurance and environmental protection programs.
- • Train staff and subcontractors on environmental compliance and sustainable construction practices.
- • Plan and coordinate construction sequencing to meet deadlines while minimizing environmental disturbance.
- • Investigate incidents, noncompliance, damage, or delays and drive corrective actions.
- • Prepare contracts and negotiate scope, schedule, budget, and sustainability requirements with consultants and contractors.
- • Manage procurement of environmentally preferred materials and services.
- • Determine staffing needs and dispatch project and environmental specialists to sites.
- • Interpret and communicate plans, standards, and contract terms to owners, staff, and stakeholders.
- • Monitor and report program metrics to leadership and external stakeholders, including ESG disclosures.
- • Oversee land acquisition due diligence for environmental constraints and approvals.
- • Coordinate with utilities to implement energy-efficient systems and commissioning.
- • Oversee environmental monitoring of air, noise, and water and manage post-construction mitigation.
- • Supervise project managers and environmental coordinators and provide governance and oversight.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
