Environmental Director - Ohio or Indiana

Description

• Lead and Hold Accountable: Provide clear direction and hold your team accountable to roles, responsibilities, and results, ensuring alignment with SevenGen’s Proven Process.
• Engage Clients: Show up as a trusted advisor, communicating with candor and clarity, building long-term relationships, and ensuring exceptional service on every project.
• Turn Data into Action: Build and read dashboards, track KPIs, and use data to make decisions that improve client service, team performance, and profitability.
• Improve Processes: Identify gaps, streamline workflows, and implement better ways of working to elevate the department’s efficiency and impact.
• Lead Projects and People: Oversee complex environmental projects (air, water, and waste permitting; ISO 14001, Phase I/II audits; asbestos/lead assessments; SPCC; SWPPP; Tier II; Form R reporting) while coaching a high-performing team to deliver excellent results.
• Empower clients and team members by sharing knowledge generously, educate, mentor, and offer insights that help others grow, understand, and succeed.
• Collaborate Strategically: Partner with senior leadership and business development to envision the department’s future, build new service offerings, and align with SevenGen’s growth trajectory.
• Coach and Develop: Lead with candor and care — delivering feedback, holding crucial conversations, and building a culture of accountability, growth, and trust.
• Advocate and recruit for excellence by contributing to a healthy team culture, speak directly, surface issues early, and bring concerns into conversations where resolution and improvement are the goal.

Requirements

We are looking for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and strategic vision. Someone who can deliver exceptional service today while building the systems, processes, and talent that will fuel tomorrow. A leader who is ambitious enough to see the big picture, but grounded enough to turn data into results, coach people to success, and hold teams accountable to the highest standards.

• Consulting Experience: 2+ years working in consulting, with proven ability to manage client relationships.
• Environmental Expertise: 10+ years of total environmental experience with a strong foundation in technical services.
• Collaboration Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to work seamlessly with senior leaders and business development.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to balance billable work with building processes, people, and the future of the department.
• People Leadership: 2+ years managing others, including experience holding team members accountable to expectations, giving constructive feedback, and leading coaching conversations.
• Data-Driven Mindset: Comfort building and interpreting dashboards, using metrics to guide decisions, and holding teams accountable to results.
• Are comfortable having candid, constructive conversations that build trust and drive growth.
• Certification: Board-accredited certification (CHMM or similar)
• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science (or related field);

Benefits

• Annual personal development budget
• Competitive compensation + performance-based bonus
• Medical, dental, vision insurance for you and your family
• Generous PTO
• Pursue 1% growth every day, explore your world and interactions with curiosity, seek out learning beyond work, and choose to improve in leadership and technical craft.
• Clear career pathways
• 401(k) with company match

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance