Job description
Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.
At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.
Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:
- DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint
- DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
- eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
- DuWell:Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care.
At Dudek, we recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, trust and belonging build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. Dudek’s Employee Resource (ERGs)operate as diversity champions within Dudek and create a safe space for underrepresented employees and their allies to support, collaborate, network, and brainstorm ways to make Dudek’s work community more inclusive. We proudly support our 4 Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s):
- Women at Dudek
- Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
- Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)
Learn more about our culture.
About The Job
Dudek is seeking a project manager that will lead multi-disciplinary teams to successfully obtain all permits to construct and operate renewable energy, energy storage and transmission projects. The individual will be self-driven with a proven track record of proactive business development, working closely with engineering design teams, regulatory agencies, environmental subject matter experts, and land acquisition specialists. Candidates that have technical expertise in managing large complex projects to meet project milestones within schedule and budget expectations is essential. Candidates that have a demonstrated track record working on energy projects located on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands and have permitting experience. This position will be associated with our San Diego office but can be fully remote and will have opportunities to work on projects throughout the United States.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.
Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.
Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below):
- Foster client connections through existing client relationships and proactive business development while working with others to anticipate and pursue work
- Promote a culture of teamwork, engagement, quality service, and customer satisfaction to our clients
- Enhance Dudek’s professional reputation and demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative with these tasks while representing Dudek in a professional manner.
- Provides QA/QC of Dudek prepared work products and associated mentorship on methods and means to improve work products.
- Manage projects that are fast-paced with changing requirements.
- Lead permitting strategies by taking initiative to assure client expectations are being met.
- Prepare permitting packages, technical reports, critical issues analysis and lead stakeholder outreach programs.
- Lead the preparation, organization, and production of environmental compliance management plans, permit applications, and other environmental documents to guide compliance implementation during the project lifecycle.
- Work with project team members to track environmental commitments to support the implementation of permit conditions on a variety of projects.
- Coordinate with client, field personnel, and environmental resource specialists to ensure permit conditions are implemented during construction.
- Provides mentorship to all team members to foster career growth opportunities.
- Mentor staff in the development of the skills in permitting and document preparation.
- Actively engages in opportunities to identify and follow-through with new team member additions that will help meet existing client needs and provide new market opportunities.
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with proactive business development
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and have active personal automobile liability insurance by first day of employment
\* As a federal contractor, successful candidates are required to pass the following pre-employment requirements prior to beginning employment: pre - employment drug test and background check.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with leading stakeholder outreach programs for energy projects.
- Experience developing projects on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands
- Strong technical writing and research skills as well as solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Customarily and regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment.
- Self-motivated with an interest to learn and grow as a project team.
- Five (5) or more years’ experience managing the permitting process for energy project teams and mentorship of team members.
- Experience with managing environmental resource specialists and managing large project teams.
Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:
- This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
- This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met in order to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
- This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
- This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.
Perks of Being a Dudekian
At Dudek we will provide you with a competitive salary in an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from medical, dental, and vision coverage, to the discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance.
We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! To honor our key value of well-being, Dudek provides generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages for both salaried and hourly employees. If you’re tired of an overly bureaucratic decision-making process and want to be part of a work culture that puts its employees first, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.
Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Dudek is a U.S.-based employer. All positions are based in the U.S. and require U.S. work authorization.
