$82,300 – $101KSeniorFull Time
Shape the future of sustainable industry with data-driven environmental impact.
As organizations face rising regulatory expectations and growing pressure to operate responsibly, this role places you at the center of meaningful change. As a Senior Consultant, Sustainable Operations, based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, you’ll partner with major industrial and global clients to solve complex environmental challenges, strengthen operational resilience, and influence decisions that impact communities, ecosystems, and long‑term sustainability. This is an opportunity to grow your consulting career while contributing to work that truly makes a difference.
Why This Role Matters
Industrial organizations are navigating a fast‑evolving landscape of environmental risk, compliance requirements, and climate expectations. Your expertise will help clients meet these demands with confidence—delivering technical insights, innovative solutions, and reliable execution across high‑visibility projects. This role strengthens ERM’s ability to guide clients toward safer, more compliant, and more sustainable operations.
What Your Impact Is
You’ll serve as a trusted technical resource on environmental compliance, permitting, site investigation, and remediation.
You’ll help clients make decisions rooted in accurate data—through assessments, analyses, modeling, and reporting.
You’ll contribute to projects that protect air, water, and land while supporting safer industrial operations.
You’ll help ensure projects stay on scope, on budget, and on schedule, supporting Partners and Project Managers across ERM’s portfolio.
You’ll gain increasing responsibility for managing project tasks and leading components of complex engagements.
What You’ll Bring
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Civil, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering; Chemistry; Environmental Science; or a related discipline. Or equivalent experience.
3–4 years of relevant environmental experience or professional internships.
Strong hands-on skills with spreadsheets and databases.
Excellent time management, attention to detail, and analytical thinking.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, with experience compiling or writing technical data and reports.
Curiosity, initiative, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Preferred
Master’s degree and/or Professional Engineer (PE) credential.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical assistance on EHS compliance, air quality management, site investigation and remediation, and due diligence transaction projects.
Prepare environmental plans, permits, and reports related to hazardous waste, air quality, stormwater, NPDES, wastewater, spill prevention, and EPCRA Tier II/TRI programs.
Perform environmental compliance assessments and support corrective actions to meet federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
Conduct air quality analyses, prepare emission inventory reports, quantify pollutant emissions and impacts, and evaluate air pollution control technologies.
Perform Phase I Environmental Site Assessments to support property transfer transactions.
Conduct field activities, including sampling, ecological studies, drilling, well installation, remedial pilot tests, construction oversight, and O&M of remedial systems.
Provide general environmental compliance support to clients, including on‑site assistance when needed.
Compile and evaluate environmental data; assist with report preparation.
Execute multiple projects within defined scope, budget, and schedule expectations, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Support ERM Partners‑in‑Charge and Project Managers in effectively managing projects and client relationships.
For the Senior Consultant, Sustainable Operations position, the anticipated annual base pay is $82,300–$101,235 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.
Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.
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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