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Sr. Regional Permitting and Compliance Environmental Engineer

Mariana Minerals· Plant Operations
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San Francisco HQ, Houston, TX, Moab, UT$100k - $150kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior environmental engineer responsible for permitting execution, compliance implementation, due diligence, and stakeholder engagement across Mariana Minerals’ U.S. mining, processing, and refining project sites, with initial global portfolio scope and eventual regional ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute permitting roadmaps across federal, state, and local agencies for all project sites in Mariana's current U.S. portfolio, with scope narrowing to a defined region as portfolio and team grow.
  • Manage NEPA EA/EIS workstreams in coordination with BLM and third-party consultants — from scoping and public comment through Record of Decision (ROD) — ensuring mitigation, monitoring, and reporting commitments flow into design and construction plans.
  • Integrate permitting requirements into FEL 1–3 and detailed design, working directly with engineering teams to keep environmental commitments on schedule and budget.
  • Serve as primary point of contact with federal agencies (BLM, USACE, EPA, USFWS) and state/local agencies (e.g., RRC, DNR/MPCA, DEQ, UDEQ/DOGM, CalEPA, and county/municipal authorities) across assigned projects.
  • Implement and audit Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at project sites across the portfolio, ensuring permit and ROD conditions are embedded in daily operations and management of change (MOC).
  • Manage ongoing compliance obligations for air, water, stormwater, waste, and EPCRA across assigned sites, tracking deadlines across overlapping federal, state, and local requirements.
  • Direct environmental monitoring programs and ensure timely submission of quarterly and annual compliance reports to agencies.
  • Oversee remediation plans and corrective actions for environmental impacts across the portfolio.
  • Lead environmental due diligence for acquisitions, divestitures, and new project development across the portfolio, assessing permitting/compliance status, risk, and regulatory exposure.
  • Contribute permitting and compliance data to corporate sustainability and ESG reporting.
  • Identify and implement continuous-improvement opportunities in permitting and compliance performance, and help define regional structures, staffing, and handoff plans as the portfolio scales.
  • Act as a primary interface between project/site teams and internal stakeholders — process engineering, operations, legal, and executive leadership.
  • Engage external stakeholders, including regulatory agencies and consultants, to maintain productive relationships and keep permitting and compliance on track.
  • Prepare concise updates for the Global Environmental Permitting Lead and senior leadership on portfolio-wide permitting and compliance status.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Geology, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of U.S. environmental permitting and compliance experience in mining, energy, or large infrastructure, with demonstrated ownership of agency relationships across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Demonstrated familiarity with the multijurisdictional U.S. environmental regulatory framework — local, state, and federal — and the ability to navigate overlapping requirements across agencies.
  • Direct experience managing NEPA EA/EIS processes, including coordination with BLM and multi-disciplinary consultant teams, through Record of Decision.
  • Working knowledge of CAA, CWA, RCRA, ESA, EPCRA, and state/local permitting and compliance programs.
  • Experience integrating permitting requirements into FEL 1–3 and detailed design, and implementing or auditing Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
  • Strong technical writing, agency negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Comfort operating in a broad, portfolio-wide role today, with flexibility to shift into ownership of a defined region as Mariana's project portfolio grows.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mariana Minerals

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Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies.

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