The posting
Ready to Lead Environmental Compliance at a Global Scale?
If you’re driven to shape sustainable operations and lead complex compliance initiatives, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. As a Managing Technical Consultant, Compliance Engineer based in the Indianapolis, Indiana area, you’ll play a strategic role in helping organizations navigate evolving environmental regulations, reduce risk, and elevate performance. At ERM, you won’t just deliver compliance—you’ll influence how leading companies operate responsibly at scale.
Why This Role Matters
ERM is a global leader in sustainability consulting, and our clients rely on us to bring clarity and confidence to increasingly complex regulatory environments. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of technical expertise, client advisory, and leadership—guiding organizations toward compliance excellence while advancing broader sustainability outcomes.
What Your Impact Is:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to multinational clients on environmental compliance strategies
- Drive technical excellence and quality across projects involving air permitting, hazardous waste, and regulatory audits
- Mentor teams and foster collaboration to deliver best-in-class solutions
- Influence operational improvements that shape industry standards for compliance and sustainability
What You’ll Bring:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Chemistry, or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in environmental compliance, permitting, and auditing
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects within scope, budget, and schedule
- Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring and building collaborative teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for client engagement
- Ability to travel up to 20% regionally and occasionally nationally
- Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area
- This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
Preferred:
- Certifications such as HAZWOPER, CHMM, or similar
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise and oversight on hazardous waste, hazardous materials, and compliance projects
- Manage project execution, including budgeting, QA/QC, and regulatory assessments
- Lead development of compliance plans, permits, and reports (air, EPCRA, SPCC, stormwater, NPDES, wastewater)
- Conduct environmental audits and implement corrective actions to ensure regulatory compliance
- Collaborate with ERM subject matter experts to deliver integrated solutions
- Build strong client relationships and maintain scope, budget, and schedule expectations
- Support ERM Partners-in-Charge and Project Managers in delivering high-quality outcomes
If you’re looking to step into a role where your technical expertise and leadership directly influence sustainable business practices, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact with ERM.
Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Thank you for your interest in ERM!
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