Regulatory Permitting Specialist (Finance)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is searching for an Regulatory Permitting Specialist to support and grow our Water team in New York City. This candidate will use their expertise and technical knowledge to deliver permitting approvals for various stages of the project related to water/wastewater/stormwater clients in the Tri State Area and across North America. This role requires a strong understanding of local, state, and federal regulations and the ability to work closely with internal teams, regulatory agencies, and stakeholders to ensure compliance with all permitting requirements.

Role accountabilities:

Technical Skills: Complete technical and report writing with guidance from senior team members. Reports must ensure accuracy and compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes or practices. Part of this responsibility will be to provide inspection services in the field for ongoing construction projects. Our expectation is that you will help resolve technical issues on projects and provide technical guidance to team members as needed.

Project Management: Act as a project resource, completing allocated activities to meet budget, timeframe and quality objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations; this will entail carrying out investigations and analyses to support the development of technical solutions. When necessary, you will need to liaise with Project Managers/Team Leaders and clients to ensure effective communication on project matters.

Collaboration: Collaborate with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design or solution.

Project Assignments: Some of the permits this individual will work on will include but are not limited to:

• NYCMA DEP 401 Water Quality Certs
• NYCDOB Permits
• NYSDEC Permits
• NYCDEP SWPPP Preparations
• Joint Permit Application
• Natural Heritage & Endangers Species Project Review Filings
• Army Corp Permits
• MSGP and SWPPP Plans
• Costal Zone Management

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of engineering or in environmental field.
• Valid driver's license with the ability to commute to project sites.
• Minimum 3-5 years' of experience in engineering, permitting and working with regulatory agencies
• Strong understanding of local, state, and federal permitting process.
• Experience working with regulatory agencies, municipalities and other government agencies.

Skills and Abilities:

• Detail oriented with knowledge of relevant national standards and codes of practic.
• Experience with New York (New York City, Upstate and Long Island) Environmental Permitting.
• Advanced proficiency with relevant desktop applications.
• Proficient in CADD, GIS and may have 3D CADD or Revit experience.
• Advanced research, data gathering, technical writing and analysis skills
• Developing skills including technical, project management, relationship management, sector expertise and commercial awareness.
• Ability to read and interpret construction plans, environmental documents, and regulatory codes.

Preferred Skills:

• EIT.
• Experience with environmental permitting (e.g., wetlands, stormwater, floodplain management).
• Familiarity with permitting software and tools (e.g., ebuilder, Procore).
• Knowledge of construction codes and environmental regulations.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $90,000 - $120,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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