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About the Role
A Senior Environmental Specialist provides advanced environmental support including due diligence, permitting, regulatory interpretation and compliance, and interface with federal, state, and regional agencies. This position supports new and existing corporate development opportunities in the Central Region and serves as a subject matter expert for complex environmental matters.
Responsibilities
- Support new and existing corporate development opportunities for NextEra Energy Resources and other NextEra Energy affiliates in the Central Region with potential focus in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.
- Manage multiple, multifaceted environmental issues, licensing and permitting processes, legislative development, and related activities to provide management support to NextEra Energy, Inc. departments.
- Support environmental due diligence, siting, and acquiring federal, state, regional, and local environmental approvals/permits for energy development, mergers and acquisitions, financings, and divestitures of assets, including but not limited to, wind, solar, battery storage, gas, data centers and transmission.
- Serve as the subject matter expert resolving complex environmental matters and providing specialized expertise and technical support to ensure compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and permit conditions.
- Demonstrate strong experience in permitting (e.g., NEPA, utility siting, endangered species, waters of the U.S.), risk diligence and mitigation, project management with ability to lead projects and consultants with limited direction, leadership, and communication.
- Maintain current knowledge of pertinent national, state, local, and company level environmental policies and regulations.
- Effectively interface with internal and external customers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders, including regulatory agencies.
- Assess and communicate environmental risk.
- Perform comprehensive environmental due diligence reviews.
- Conduct environmental licensing and permitting activities.
- Support environmental aspects of company operations, such as, compliance, reporting, monitoring, remediation, and environmental permitting functions.
- Monitor and analyze environmental policies and regulations that affect the company and its customers.
- Provide the necessary support to staff to resolve environmental matters.
- Negotiate with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.
- Develop and manage vendor contracts / purchase orders / invoices.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist with development of strategy and communicate environmental requirements to management.
- Review, monitor, and comment on emerging environmental legislation and regulations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 4+ years of experience
Skills
- Environmental due diligence
- Permitting
- Regulatory interpretation
- Regulatory compliance
- NEPA
- Utility siting
- Endangered species
- Waters of the U.S.
- Risk diligence and mitigation
- Project management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Environmental policies and regulations
- Strategic management
- Oversight
- Knowledge of aquatic, biological, and cultural resource consultants, studies, and technical reports
- Guidance on alternatives to minimize environmental impacts
- Specialized expertise
- Cost effective environmental solutions
- Operational flexibility
- Environmental benefits for costs incurred
- Improved system reliability
- Customer satisfaction
- Planning
- Budget
- Schedule
- Translate regulatory authorities into actionable tasks
- Develop and manage vendor contracts
- Purchase orders
- Invoices
- Assist with development of strategy
- Communicate environmental requirements to management
- Review, monitor, and comment on emerging environmental legislation and regulations
Location
- Remote
- Regionally appropriate locations may be considered
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's degree in Environmental science or similar (Preferred)
Benefits
- Wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members
About the Company
- NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress.
- We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
- NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws.
- NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.