Onshore Compliance Specialist

Join us in this role where you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with our various commercial, technical, QHSE, and stakeholder teams to ensure compliance. In this role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that all projects in our regional onshore asset portfolio comply with environmental and permitting requirements.

Welcome to Welcome to NA PEMA (Permitting, Environmental and Marine Affairs)
You’ll be part of the Permitting and Environmental Compliance team, where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for driving permitting compliance success, identifying potential environmental and social risks, and finding inventive solutions to ensure our onshore regional projects are both commercially viable and have a net-positive impact on surrounding communities and biodiversity. We foster a culture of curiosity, ambition, originality, and caring for one another. As a team, we form a larger PEMA team, which consists of offshore and onshore permitting, marine affairs, and compliance, spanning the developmental, construction, and operational phases of projects.

You’ll play an important role in:

• facilitating Compliance activities related to environmental and permitting requirements through all phases, incl. providing strategic inputs to development phase decisions and potential acquisitions
• communicating and collaborating with key internal stakeholders, incl. development, EPC, Operations, Asset Managers, QHSE, and Legal to ensure all are aware of compliance requirements
• developing construction and operations procedures for solar, wind, and other onshore energy-related projects
• leading auditing, inspection, training, and other relevant compliance programs
• routinely sharing information about lessons learned within each project, broader PEMA team, and other departments, to ensure continuous improvement
• overseeing and leading responses to noncompliance issues or events for onshore activities, incl. leading incident reporting, investigation, and effective corrective actions.

To succeed in the role, you:

• hold a bachelor’s degree, or have equivalent experience, in environmental science or environmental policy, engineering, construction management, natural resources, or another relevant field
• understand renewable energy projects, and are familiar with construction and operational activities, incl. wildlife monitoring and mitigation, acoustic measurements, SWPPP, vegetation management, NPDES Discharge monitoring, discharges to land, wetland management, and other relevant permitting conditions
• have experience with compliance tracking and monitoring tools, auditing, inspections, procedure development, overseeing permit conditions, and stakeholder commitments, all of which are important for this role
• can interface with various internal and external stakeholders to recommend approaches that lead to continuous improvement, cost savings, and lesser project impacts
• are knowledgeable about onshore federal and state compliance regulatory triggers and applicability
• have at least three to five years of related experience in any onshore infrastructure construction or operational projects, with experience from working in technical teams (engineering, development, construction, operations) in large projects being desirable, as well as knowledge of ISO 14001 EMS, and 9001 standards.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us
If you need to request any adjustments or accommodations to working practices, working patterns, or the assessment or interview process, we're happy to discuss alternative arrangements.

Please note that you’re expected to do regular travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll travel to various onshore and construction sites, depending on need.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.

About the job
Application deadline:
May 5, 2024

Location:
Austin, US Houston, US Chicago, US

Field of work:
Public affairs, regulatory and legal

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 9,000 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.