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About the Role
As a Project Delivery Lead, you will help project managers deliver safe, profitable, high-quality environmental consulting projects while strengthening financial performance across an assigned portfolio. You will combine proactive oversight with practical coaching, helping project managers identify risks early, navigate challenges, and build their commercial and financial capabilities. This is a matrix leadership role focused on portfolio performance and project manager development.
Responsibilities
- Oversee safe, efficient project delivery against scope, schedule, quality, risk, and financial commitments.
- Lead regular portfolio reviews to assess project health, identify emerging risks, and agree on corrective actions.
- Analyze project costs, billings, schedules, estimates at completion, and forecasts to address performance issues.
- Partner with project managers and finance teams on timely invoicing, unbilled balances, accounts receivable, and collection strategies.
- Provide guidance in assigning projects and pursuit efforts to project managers.
- Review client-facing cost estimates and proposal pricing within the assigned portfolio.
- Understand applicable client contracts and help project managers translate commercial terms into delivery plans, budgets, and risk controls.
- Support proactive scope and change management, including change orders, budget and schedule adjustments, stakeholder communication, and dispute resolution.
- Help teams budget appropriate project review and oversight effort and recover that effort where permitted by the contract.
- Serve as a practical resource for project managers facing client communication, team coordination, financial, or delivery challenges.
- Coach project managers and emerging project managers to strengthen judgment, accountability, and confidence.
- Partner with operations and program leaders on project and pursuit assignments, project manager development, and performance feedback.
- Work with project controls leadership and Project Support Specialists to establish effective scheduling, progress tracking, reporting, and financial monitoring.
- Promote consistent project kickoffs, milestone reviews, and closeout practices.
- Share lessons learned and help teams adopt project management tools, processes, and improvements.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental sciences, finance, accounting, business, or a related technical or business discipline.
- Relevant experience in project management, project controls, project finance, or consulting operations, with demonstrated ability to assess project performance and guide project managers.
- 8+ years is preferred; candidates with fewer years and strong, directly relevant skills and results will also be considered.
- Strong financial and commercial judgment, including the ability to interpret project budgets, costs, forecasts, margins, billing, and contract requirements and turn findings into practical actions.
- Clear written and verbal communication, confident presentation skills, and the ability to build relationships, coach colleagues, and influence outcomes within a matrix organization.
- Strong organization, problem-solving, and prioritization skills, including the ability to work independently and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Experience supporting environmental consulting projects from pursuit through closeout, whether through project delivery, finance, project controls, or operations.
- Familiarity with fixed-price, fixed-unit-rate, time-and-materials, and other contract models, along with scheduling concepts, earned value management, and risk and contingency management.
- Experience with proposal development, pricing, financial systems, process improvement, and coaching teams through change.
- Familiarity with Onterris systems and processes is an advantage.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Skills
- Project management
- Project controls
- Project finance
- Consulting operations
- Financial judgment
- Commercial judgment
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Relationship building
- Coaching
- Influencing outcomes
- Organization
- Problem-solving
- Prioritization
- Independent work
- Decision making
- Environmental consulting
- Contract models
- Scheduling concepts
- Earned value management
- Risk management
- Contingency management
- Proposal development
- Pricing
- Financial systems
- Process improvement
- Change management
Location
- Remote within the United States
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years preferred
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000 to $175,000
Benefits
- Annual bonus (12%)
About the Company
- Onterris builds careers grounded in purpose, responsibility and real-world impact.
- “For Planet and Progress” is our north star that guides everything we do.
- We believe environmental responsibility and human progress are interconnected, interwoven and international.
- Our scientists, engineers, field teams, consultants and professionals collaborate across disciplines and geographies, guiding industries and governments, ensuring that communities and environments thrive.
- Onterris is a leading global environmental solutions company partnering with organizations to solve complex challenges where environmental pressures, regulatory expectations and operational risks intersect.
- Guided by our mission to advance the way of life without compromising the integrity of our environment, we believe environmental responsibility and human progress are fundamentally connected.
- Our scientists, engineers, field teams and consultants apply systems thinking that unites science, data and practical expertise to deliver solutions that strengthen our clients’ resilience, mitigate risk and protect the air, water and soil that sustain communities, while uncovering responsible paths forward for planet and progress.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
- We acknowledge that these experiences and perspectives help to enrich our teams and contribute to our ongoing success.
- We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in our employment for all applicants.