# Experienced Permitting Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Elko, NV
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: $68,700 - $117,600
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an Experienced Permitting Specialist to join our Mine Environment team on a part-time to full-time basis. The successful candidate will support permitting and environmental related projects and field programs with an emphasis on the global mining industry.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide support for mining projects, including data collection and interpretation, permitting support, baseline studies, operational support, and reclamation/remediation

- Support the development of proposals related to mine permitting projects

- Support multiple projects according to client-approved scopes of work, and deliver high-quality reports on time and within budget

- Support the designing, planning, and execution of field programs for clients

- Manage, analyze, and interpret data, and report on data, technical review, and quality control for data collection and analysis

- Work with multi-disciplinary project teams to integrate data into large-scale environmental assessments, permit applications, resource management plans, and closure plans

- Take an active role in developing and maintaining client relationships

- Actively promote a 'Safety-First' focus

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Geology, Biology, or related field, with a strong background in regulatory compliance and permitting; graduate degree preferred

- 3 to 10 years of professional experience in natural resources, permitting, consulting, or an adjacent professional field

- Understanding of state and federal regulatory mining regulations and NEPA

- Knowledge of mining-related environmental practices and standards

- Demonstrated experience in working with teams to deliver work products in a timely fashion, ideally within a consulting environment

- Excellent communication skills and an ability to execute written reports and presentations to convey technical results to a range of audiences

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Graduate degree in Geology, Biology, Natural Resource Management, or related field

- Previous experience working as a consulting scientist

- Experience working with government regulators

- Experience in design and implementation of field programs

- MSHA 24-hr level qualified or recertification eligible

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance

- Retirement savings

- Paid sick leave

- Paid vacation

- Paid parental leave

- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings

**Compensation:**

- Expected salary: $68,700 - $117,600

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## Skills

### Required
- regulatory compliance
- permitting
- environmental practices
- NEPA
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- graduate degree
- consulting experience
- government regulators
- field programs
- MSHA 24-hr level qualification

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