Job Description
We are Olsson, a team-based, purpose-driven engineering and design firm. Our solutions improve communities and our people make it possible.
Our most meaningful asset is our people, and we are dedicated to providing an environment where they can continue to learn, grow, and thrive. Our entrepreneurial spirit is what has allowed us — and will continue to allow us — to grow. The result? Inspired people, amazing designs, and projects with purpose.
Olsson’s Industrial Environmental team excels in providing innovative, sustainable solutions for the industrial sector, ensuring compliance with key environmental regulations across fields like mining, agriculture, data centers, manufacturing, and chemical facilities. Our expert team delivers win-win results through environmental engineering, planning, and permitting, while fostering a teamwork-driven environment where professionals thrive. As an Associate Project Manager, you’ll support dynamic projects, overseeing deliverables for small-to-mid-sized initiatives. Your role in the full project life cycle will be essential to ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget, leading to successful, high-quality solutions that meet engineering and design needs.
Responsibilities:
- Assemble project teams, assigning individual responsibilities to ensure technical skills, capabilities, and expertise align with project objectives.
- Serve as the primary liaison, communicating project scope, schedule, and budget with the project team, client, and contractors.
- Mentor and guide less experienced staff, fostering their professional growth and enhancing team capabilities.
- Develop project budgets, review costs, and track adherence to planned budget.
- Organize and conduct routine project meetings, ensuring alignment on expectations and performance.
- Ensure RCRA compliance across all generator classes, including contingency plans, waste characterization, and hazardous waste shipment coordination.
- Act as a liaison during state and EPA inspections, implementing corrective measures as needed.
- Conduct multi-media environmental audits.
- Lead Phase I ESA development and completion.
- Oversee wastewater permitting and stormwater plan development with routine compliance.
- Maintain field lab accreditation, ensuring ongoing compliance with program requirements.
You are passionate about:
- Working collaboratively with others.
- Having ownership in the work you do.
- Using your talents to positively affect communities.
You bring to the team:
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to contribute and work well on a team.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related area preferred.
- A minimum of eight years of project experience within an applicable field or discipline with increasing responsibility.
Olsson is a nationally recognized, employee-owned firm specializing in planning and design, engineering, field services, environmental, and technology. Founded in 1956 on the very mindset that drives us today, we’re here to improve communities by making them more sustainable, better connected, and more efficient. Simply put, we work to leave the world better than we found it.
As an Olsson employee, you’ll receive our traditional benefits package (health care, vision, dental, paid time off, etc.), plus you’ll:
- Become an owner in the company after your first year through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Engage in work that has a positive impact in communities
- Receive an excellent 401(k) match
- Participate in a wellness program promoting balanced lifestyles
- Benefit from a bonus system that rewards performance
- Have the possibility for flexible work arrangements
Olsson is an EEO employer. We encourage qualified minority, female, veteran and disabled candidates to apply and be considered for open positions. We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, disability, age, or military status.
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