Job Title: Senior Environmental Permitting Planner
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
Estimated Duration: 6 Months
Our client is seeking an Environmental Permitting Planner to support capital and maintenance projects across the U.S. In this role, you’ll lead environmental permitting, compliance, and restoration efforts to ensure projects meet all federal, state, and local environmental regulations. You’ll work closely with regulatory agencies, contractors, and internal stakeholders to guide projects from planning through completion.
Key Responsibilities
-
Develop and execute environmental permitting and compliance strategies for energy infrastructure projects.
-
Secure and manage environmental clearances under NEPA, ESA, CWA, NHPA, and related regulations.
-
Coordinate with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies (USACE, EPA, USFWS, etc.).
-
Oversee environmental contractors, field surveys, and post-construction monitoring.
-
Support stakeholder engagement with communities, landowners, and government entities.
-
Ensure all project activities align with corporate environmental policies, budgets, and schedules.
Qualifications
-
8+ years of experience in environmental permitting, compliance, or planning.
-
Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Biology, or related field.
-
Strong understanding of NEPA, Clean Water Act (Sections 401/404), ESA, NPDES, and related environmental statutes.
-
Proven ability to manage consultants, field teams, and agency coordination.
-
Excellent communication, organization, and analytical skills.
-
Willingness to travel to project sites as needed.
Preferred
-
Experience in the midstream, energy, or infrastructure sectors.
-
Knowledge of federal and Texas environmental permitting processes.
-
Strong project management and multi-tasking skills.
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between $85.00 and $95.00
Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
Not interested in this position, but know somebody who might be? Check out our Referral Reward Program, referrals are a big secret behind our success. As always, we’re on the lookout for great people. And we know that you know great people!
Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
Open ears. Open minds. Open futures