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Job Description
Senior Environmental Permitting Specialist – New England Region
Location: Boston, MA; Chelmsford; MA; Worcester, MA; Merrimack, NH; Glastonbury, CT; Providence, RI (Hybrid)
Opportunity
Join a growing environmental planning and permitting team as a key contributor focused on delivering complex infrastructure projects across New England. This role emphasizes permitting strategy, regulatory compliance, and agency coordination for transportation, coastal resilience, and infrastructure projects. You will support multidisciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and guide projects from early planning through successful permit approvals. This role is ideal for a strong writer and project lead who enjoys managing multi ‑ discipline workflows and working directly with clients and agencies.
Your Impact
Required Qualifications:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $82,500 - $110,500
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
Notice To Third Party Agencies
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Senior Environmental Permitting Specialist – New England Region
Location: Boston, MA; Chelmsford; MA; Worcester, MA; Merrimack, NH; Glastonbury, CT; Providence, RI (Hybrid)
Opportunity
Join a growing environmental planning and permitting team as a key contributor focused on delivering complex infrastructure projects across New England. This role emphasizes permitting strategy, regulatory compliance, and agency coordination for transportation, coastal resilience, and infrastructure projects. You will support multidisciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and guide projects from early planning through successful permit approvals. This role is ideal for a strong writer and project lead who enjoys managing multi ‑ discipline workflows and working directly with clients and agencies.
Your Impact
- Support and lead environmental permitting strategy and execution for transportation, coastal resilience, and infrastructure projects across New England.
- Coordinate the preparation and review of federal, state, and local permit applications, including wetlands, waterways, coastal zone, and endangered species compliance.
- Integrate NEPA and MEPA documentation with permitting pathways to support regulatory compliance, technical defensibility, and alignment with agency expectations.
- Coordinate with regulatory agencies such as MassDEP, NH DES, CT DEEP, RIDEM, USACE, and NOAA to advance project reviews and approvals.
- Contribute to the development of permitting strategies, schedules, and risk assessments, including identification of key approvals and regulatory constraints.
- Support grant applications, including coastal resilience and NOAA/NFWF programs, with a focus on permitting feasibility and implementation readiness.
- Manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, and task teams to deliver permitting and compliance milestones.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior staff in permitting processes, regulatory coordination, and documentation.
Required Qualifications:
- 7–10 years of experience in environmental permitting, regulatory compliance, policy, or related fields.
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy, Science, or Planning.
- Demonstrated expertise in federal, state, and local permitting frameworks across New England, including NEPA, MEPA, wetlands, waterways, coastal zone, and endangered species compliance.
- Proven ability to lead permitting efforts for transportation or infrastructure projects, including coordination with state DOTs and federal agencies.
- Experience preparing permit applications and managing agency reviews through approval.
- Strong communication and technical writing skills, including client-facing interaction and regulatory coordination.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, budgets, and schedules while maintaining high-quality deliverables and mentoring staff.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate site constraints related to geography, ecology, and development.
- Self-directed with strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to prioritize in a dynamic environment.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficiency with technical writing, office software, and project delivery tools.
- Ability to uphold workplace safety guidelines and to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Master’s Degree in relevant field of study.
- AICP certified, or ability to obtain certification, is a plus.
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $82,500 - $110,500
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
ABOUT US
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
www.wsp.com
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
Notice To Third Party Agencies
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Salary : $82,500 - $110,500