Principal Consultant

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BSI Consulting Services is a trusted and agenda-shaping partner providing ‘best practice’ technical, regulatory, and business expertise and intelligence for our clients’ most critical EHS and Supply Chain risk and opportunities to achieve greater resilience, impact, and future-readiness.

Job Title: Principal Environmental Engineer / Environmental Risk Consultan

Location: USA - Remote with travel up to 25%

Purpose of the role

Principal Environmental Engineer / Environmental Risk Consultant will help grow CS’s Strategic Risk Management practice focusing on complex environmental, regulatory, risk, and liability engagements for clients across industry, finance, insurance, government, and law. The individual will be responsible for program strategy development and driving initiatives to expand BSI’s position in the marketplace focused on mitigating environmental risks and supporting business transactions. Work will include both client management and business development responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Coordinate with Practice Directors and BSI business leaders to shape the strategic risk management practice focusing on Environmental, Health and Safety risk mitigation.

• Lead environmental consulting and engineering projects, including scope, budget, schedule, contracts, and delivery.

• Assess environmental risk, liability, compliance, and technical issues, and develop solutions for clients.

• Oversee due diligence activities, investigations, remediation, permitting, redevelopment, and facility start-up and closures.

• Advise on transactions, insurance matters, disputes, litigation, and expert-witness engagements.

• Develop compliance programs and coordinate with regulators, counsel, contractors, laboratories, and other stakeholders to mitigate enterprise and local risks for clients.

• Deliver clear, defensible reports and practical recommendations.

• Mentor junior professionals and communicate effectively with technical and business audiences.

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong regulatory, technical, analytical, project-management, writing, and communication skills.

• Ability to develop independent, defensible recommendations and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

• Proven leadership of complex projects and client relationships.

• Ability to generate opportunities for practice growth and support new business initiatives.

Qualification & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental science, or a related field.

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license or equivalent credential.

• Significant environmental engineering, consulting, compliance, or risk-management experience.

• Proven leadership of complex projects and client relationships.

• Ability to generate opportunities for practice growth and support new business initiatives.

• Strong regulatory, technical, analytical, project-management, writing, and communication skills.

• Ability to develop independent, defensible recommendations and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with transactional due diligence, insurance, litigation, private equity, expert-witness work, contracts, property redevelopment, hazardous materials, waste, or facility closure.

• Multi-jurisdictional compliance experience.

• HAZWOPER 40-hour certification and ICS 100, 200, and 300 training.

Travel requirements:

• Travel up to 25% to client sites and/or internal BSI offices

What we offer:

BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, ongoing training and development with the inclusion of 20-days annual leave, bank holidays, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(K) with company contribution, short-term and long-term disability, maternal leave, paid parental leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle. 

The salary for this position can range from $127,000 to $170,000 annually; actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s competencies, level of experience, education, location, divisional budget, and internal peer compensation comparisons.

About Us

BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.

Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.
Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.
Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

At BSI, we exist to have a positive impact. Our people influence international thinking and action on important issues. Their work builds trust in businesses and communities and enhances lives.

Now we’re looking for passionate people to help us take on society’s biggest challenges. You’ll partner with key stakeholders to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world. Together, we’ll create solutions to global challenges like the climate crisis and how AI will be used.

You’ll do rewarding, purpose-led work that impacts people’s health, safety and wellbeing. Your integrity will earn the trust of our stakeholders as we raise awareness of the difference we make to people around the world. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of industries across the globe.

Are you looking to grow your career in an organization that supports your development and performance? You can be your best self, do your best work and make a difference here, because life at BSI is

#NotYourStandardCareer.

Be part of our future.