Permitting Project Manager-1

Location: United States, flexible, Texas; primarily remote with periodic travel to project sites, agency meetings, and company offices

Company

hirify.global is a U.S.-based global power company developing renewable energy, natural gas generation, powered land, data center, and related energy infrastructure projects.

What you will do

• Lead permitting and land use entitlement for energy facilities across local, state, and federal jurisdictions in the MISO, SPP, and ERCOT regions.
• Support site screening and development for renewable energy, natural gas generation, powered land, data centers, and related infrastructure.
• Develop permitting strategies, responsibility matrices, budgets, schedules, permit registers, risk summaries, and decision logs.
• Lead air permitting, emissions calculations, New Source Review, Title V, air-quality modeling, control-technology evaluations, and public-notice processes.
• Manage industrial wastewater, stormwater, NPDES, water treatment, discharge, and receiving-water assessment activities.
• Coordinate agencies, consultants, engineering teams, vendors, communities, landowners, construction, and operations through permitting, handoff, and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, geology, planning, natural resources, or a related discipline.
• Typically 4–8 years of experience in permitting, environmental planning, or project development.
• Experience with U.S. state and federal air permitting for combustion sources, including emissions calculations, NSR, Title V, air-quality modeling, and agency coordination.
• Working knowledge of natural gas generation technologies, industrial NPDES or wastewater discharge permitting, land use and siting, USACE permitting, and USFWS permitting.
• Experience managing environmental consultants, technical studies, budgets, schedules, permit packages, due diligence, construction handoff, or operational compliance.
• Ability to travel as needed and proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project-management tools; GIS experience is beneficial.

Nice to have

• Experience permitting projects across MISO, SPP, or ERCOT jurisdictions, including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or other central-region states.
• Experience with major-source or complex minor-source air permitting for combustion turbines, reciprocating engines, or other thermal-generation technologies.
• Experience with powered land, data center campuses, off-grid or behind-the-meter generation, microgrids, reliability solutions, or co-located energy infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Primarily remote work with collaboration across multiple regions and periodic travel based on project and agency requirements.
• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of large-scale energy and infrastructure projects.
• Professional development, mentorship, and career growth opportunities.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration with development, engineering, commercial, construction, operations, regulatory, and community-relations teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to responsible environmental development and long-term energy sustainability.