Director Of Land Use Permitting And Wetlands Services

About The ELM Group

We are a progressive and growing environmental consulting firm with offices in Princeton, NJ, Buckingham Twp, and Bethlehem, PA. Our team is known for developing and successfully implementing cutting-edge and innovative projects and programs that advance our client’s interests sustainably into the future. We ensure a workplace that encourages growth, flexibility, and creativity, as well as a company culture that champions inclusion, diversity, and overall employee well-being through initiatives supported by company leadership.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Job Summary | Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience in wetland, water resources, and environmental permitting compliance, including sustainable and resilient wetland creation/restoration, streambank restoration and stabilization, threatened and endangered species habitat assessments, construction oversight, contractor coordination, and environmental remediation. The candidate should also have experience developing and leading successful land use permit applications in New Jersey and/or surrounding states.

Essential Responsibilities

Duties will include leading the land use permitting and wetlands services practices including management of staff and maintaining and supporting several existing long-term land use/wetlands projects. The successful candidate will also maintain and continue to develop our established land use/wetlands practices.

Project scopes include, but are not limited to, land use permit application development, habitat characterization surveys (wetland, streams, and vegetation), sampling of environmental media, restoration design/planning, field surveys, construction compliance oversight and documentation, post-construction monitoring, report writing, and environmental permitting.

Experience Required

• Experience with land use permitting, wetland delineation, habitat surveys, wetlands restoration design and planning, restoration implementation and monitoring.
• Experience with invasive species control and plant identification.
• Experience in freshwater and tidal brackish ecosystems.
• Experience in managing for resiliency, climate change impacts analysis, and sustainable resource management – engineering with nature.
• Interest in sustainable and resilient habitat design and restoration.
• Experience sampling environmental media.
• Experience with GIS and GPS.
• Experience in compilation, depiction, and analysis of survey/sampling data (Excel).
• Experience in technical report writing.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of NJ, PA, and USEPA environmental regulations, especially those relating to wetlands and land use.

 Other Requirements

• Conscientious, dedicated, hard-working, committed to excellence, and exceptional client service.
• Must be highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have experience in environmental consulting.
• Maintains confidentiality; ensures that the firm complies with Federal and State laws and regulations.
• Ability/flexibility to travel to NJ/ eastern PA sites.

 Education and Certification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an environmental science, ecological or biological field. An advanced degree is a plus.
• 10 years of experience with land use permitting and wetlands work.
• Professional Wetland Scientist certification or the ability to obtain the certification is a plus.
• 40-Hour OSHA Hazwoper Training with Annual 8-Hour Refresher
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance

Benefits

ELM offers one of the best benefits packages in the industry including:

• 401k Retirement Plan and Profit-Sharing Plan
•  Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Medical, dental, and vision healthcare
• PTO
• Company Paid Holidays

 EEOC and ADA Compliance

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion as well as encouraging diverse thoughts and opinions while acting with noble intent towards the mission of serving our clients.

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job and may be regularly required to:

• Must be able to talk and hear with reasonable accommodations.
• Must be able to stand, walk, and sit for long periods of time.
• Must be able to use hands to operate a computer keyboard.
• Must be able to reach with hands and arms above head.
• Must be able to occasionally lift, push, pull up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to navigate uneven and extremely vegetated land as part of completing surveys.
• Specific vision abilities are required including close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their position.