Permitting Team Lead

We’re a people-first organization. We value knowledge and learning. We believe in the power of connection and collaboration and we seek to build relationships that mean something. We employ some of the best and brightest in the industry and we work hard to maintain a culture that our people can be proud of.

• You have relevant permitting experience. You have a bachelor’s degree.
•  You know municipal and transportation-agency permitting. With at least eight years of experience in the permitting environment, you have a solid understanding of the activities required to obtain local, county, and state permits and easements. Likewise, you possess a working knowledge of the overall engineering and design processes.
• You’re a people person with the ability to interface, collaborate, and communicate effectively with other team members – technical or not – but you’re just as comfortable working independently. You have advanced presentation, written, and verbal communication skills and enjoy mentoring, building, and leading teams.

• You’ll lead the overall coordination of our permitting support services for out Utility clients, with a primary focus on ComEd utility projects. You’ll be responsible for project execution with minimal supervision – coordinating permitting requirements, agency approvals, and project schedules, as well as ensuring quality processes govern all project deliverables.
• You’ll coordinate permit applications, supporting documentation, submissions, agency comments, revisions, and approvals from project planning through completion.
• You’ll track permit status, review timelines, agency comments, outstanding items, and approval dates, communicating progress and potential schedule impacts to project managers and stakeholders. You’ll also support project scoping, fee estimates, proposals, and process improvements as needed.
• You’ll build productive working relationships with municipalities, DOTs, public works departments, clients, and internal engineering and project management teams. You’ll help address agency feedback and resolve permitting challenges.
• You’ll enjoy what you do. You’ll work with great people, learn, grow and have a good time doing it.

• An excellent benefits package including 401K match, gym and transit subsidies, continuing education reimbursement and much more
• A hybrid-work environment. From fully-remote to in the office each day, we empower our people to develop a schedule that fits each individual lifestyle
• A fun, inclusive, and collaborative environment
• Colleagues that appreciate differences in people, perspectives, cultures, and ideas
• The fruits of our employee-led committees focused on offering engaging social, wellness and community service activities all year long

Equal Employment Opportunity
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