The posting
Do you like working with different project teams in a fast-paced environment? Are you interested in joining an organization focused on making a positive impact? If so, we’d like to talk with you about growing with us.
Build your future at EnSafe.
At EnSafe, you’ll tackle some of the most complex environmental, engineering, and compliance challenges facing today’s built and natural environments. Our work helps clients manage risk, protect people and communities, and move projects forward safely and responsibly. In the process, you’ll collaborate with highly skilled colleagues who value technical excellence, mentorship, and long-term client partnerships.
As an employee-owned firm, EnSafe offers a place where experienced professionals can shape strategy, grow teams, and make a lasting impact—while continuing to develop their own careers.
The Opportunity
EnSafe is seeking a Client Director of Environmental Services to join our growing environmental consulting practice. This role is designed for a senior-level professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong private-sector client leadership and business development capability, particularly with industrial, commercial, and corporate clients. You will partner with multidisciplinary teams, lead complex projects, and play a key role in expanding EnSafe’s presence across priority markets and service lines.
This is a full-time position that may be based in any existing EnSafe office location, driving growth across EnSafe’s full suite of environmental, engineering, and compliance services for private-sector clients. Additionally, for the right candidate with established private-sector client relationships and the ability to attract and develop staff, this role offers the opportunity to help launch and grow a new EnSafe office location.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Serve as a senior leader driving profitable growth within EnSafe’s private-sector environmental consulting practice.
- Develop new client relationships while strengthening long-standing partnerships with industrial, commercial, and corporate clients.
- Personally engage in the pursuit and delivery of strategic consulting work for private-sector organizations.
- Lead client relationships as Client and Project Manager or primary client contact for key private-client engagements.
- Direct and oversee the successful execution of projects, ensuring technical quality, safety, schedule, and financial performance.
- Apply advanced technical expertise to support client decision-making and project outcomes.
- Navigate local, state, and federal regulatory frameworks as they relate to private-sector compliance and permitting.
- Mentor and develop staff through coaching, technical guidance, and a collaborative, “learn-by-doing” culture.
- Collaborate closely with Principals, Practice Leaders, and Operations leaders across EnSafe.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, geology, engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, or related discipline), or a closely related field.
- Professional licensure (PE, PG, or equivalent), as applicable.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in environmental consulting or a related professional services environment.
- Demonstrated success in client development, including repeat business and trusted advisor relationships, primarily with private-sector clients.
- Proven track record of winning, leading, and delivering large, complex, or strategic projects for industrial, commercial, or corporate clients.
- Strong understanding of environmental regulations impacting private-sector operations.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills.
Why Join EnSafe?
- Employee-Owned Advantage EnSafe is 100% employee-owned, with an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) since 1997. That means when EnSafe succeeds, you succeed too, turning company growth directly into shared rewards.
- Commitment to Growth and Wellness The company supports personalized career development, mentorship, and employee wellness initiatives such as health tracking tools.
- Purpose‑Driven Work EnSafe’s mission focuses on impactful environmental, health, and safety consulting—making a real difference in communities and is backed by its long-standing technical credibility.
- Safety as a Value, Not Just a Service Safety is deeply embedded in our culture, prioritizing employee well-being in addition to helping clients maintain compliance. We stress that “safety is part of everything we do.”
- A Culture of Freedom & Ownership At EnSafe, our career philosophy is built on freedom. The freedom to take initiative, achieve your goals, and shape your own career path Employees are encouraged to pursue growth in a flexible, entrepreneurial environment.
- Challenging, Creative Work Workdays at EnSafe are anything but ordinary, fast-paced, dynamic, and filled with opportunities to tackle projects in environmental consulting, health & safety, engineering, and technology. Every day calls for creativity, innovation, and agile problem-solving.
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Actual compensation for this U.S.-based remote position will be based on a variety of factors, including geographic location, education, related work experience, certifications, skills, and current market conditions.
U.S. - Remote Salary Range
$120,000—$220,000 USD
About EnSafe
EnSafe began as a two-person firm in 1980, navigating complex regulatory compliance issues on behalf of our clients. We nurture our people with growth and development opportunities. We build enduring, trustful relationships with each of our clients, with a focus on high ethical and safety standards. We build this reputation by attracting high-quality people and retaining them for the long term.
At EnSafe, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at our company.
EnSafe is committed to being an EEO employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age (except for bona fide occupational qualifications), sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military or veteran status, any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, or association with a person on the basis on one or more of the foregoing.
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