Federal Environmental Program Director
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Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
Remote in USA
RemoteTravel is required as needed to support clients, pursuits, project delivery, and industry engagement.
Consulting
About the job
Requirements
- Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible environmental consulting experience, including at least five years leading business development and project delivery for federal clients.
- Demonstrated success winning and delivering environmental investigation, remediation, or compliance work for Department of Defense, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, or other federal agencies.
- Advanced working knowledge of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act processes, environmental investigations, remedy evaluation and implementation, decision documents, and regulatory compliance.
- Established professional relationships with federal program managers, contracting organizations, installation and facility representatives, industry partners, and specialized subcontractors, with a demonstrated history of leveraging those relationships to generate and expand business opportunities.
- Experience building and managing strategic teaming relationships.
- Demonstrated success leading capture strategy, developing technical and management approaches, supporting interviews, and winning federal environmental contracts.
- Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client expectations.
- Demonstrated experience leading environmental contracts, task orders, or programs involving multi-million-dollar annual workloads.
- Experience leading or supporting Multiple Award Task Order Contract/Single Award Task Order Contract capture and task-order pursuits.
- Active professional credential or certification such as Professional Engineer, Professional Geologist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, or Project Management Professional.
- Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering, geology, or environmental science.
- Ability to satisfy applicable federal background screening and installation-access requirements.
- Willingness to travel as needed to support clients, pursuits, project delivery, and industry engagement.
Responsibilities
- Leverage and expand established relationships with Department of Defense clients, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, and Department of the Interior clients, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, to identify and pursue new opportunities.
- Lead capture strategy for major pursuits and contribute to teaming, technical strategy, proposal development, interviews, and presentations for federal Multiple Award Task Order Contract/Single Award Task Order Contract and task-order procurements.
- Develop productive relationships with prime contractors, teaming partners, small businesses, and specialized subcontractors to strengthen competitive position and delivery capabilities.
- Develop and execute account and market strategies that convert client relationships and technical capabilities into profitable new work, supporting annual sales, backlog, and revenue growth objectives for the Federal Environmental Practice.
- Lead complex Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act investigation, decision-document, remediation, and compliance programs, including Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection, Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study, Remedial Design/Remedial Action, RCRA Facility Investigation, Corrective Measures Study, and Corrective Measures Implementation activities.
- Provide senior review and technical direction to ensure project plans, reports, field approaches, and deliverables satisfy contractual, regulatory, technical, and quality requirements.
- Maintain accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, client satisfaction, risk management, and project profitability.
- Serve as a trusted senior advisor to federal clients, installation and facility representatives, regulators, teaming partners, and other stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, geologists, scientists, and project managers; strengthen their technical, project-delivery, client-development, and proposal capabilities; and help develop federal environmental leaders.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in environmental engineering, geology, or environmental science.
- Active federal security clearance.
- Recognized technical or market leadership within federal environmental investigation, remediation, or compliance programs.
About the company
True Environmental provides consulting and engineering, water and wastewater management, testing and analytical services, and remediation. It coordinates these services to deliver integrated environmental solutions across the project lifecycle, from planning and design to testing and on-site remediation. Led by veteran environmental engineer Jim Stamatis, the company combines broad end-market experience with hands-on leadership. Its goal is to grow into a comprehensive environmental services organization that handles diverse client needs—from regulatory planning to remediation—through interdisciplinary expertise.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- Ensero closed by May 22, 2026, proving True can complete cross-border acquisitions.
- Padre joined May 14, 2025, adding natural resources and geoenvironmental work for public clients.
- GKY joined December 19, 2024, strengthening water resources engineering and policy capabilities.
What critics are saying
- Serial acquisitions create integration risk across cultures, systems, and billing processes.
- Each bolt-on increases goodwill and leverage, pressuring margins if project demand softens.
- A failed integration destroys Halle Capital’s platform thesis and exit multiples.
What makes True Environmental unique
- Jim Stamatis built True around founder- and employee-owned environmental rollups, not pure staffing.
- Ensero, Padre, and GKY broaden True across water, remediation, and natural resources.
- Halle Capital supplies acquisition capital, enabling rapid ownership transitions and bolt-on consolidation.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options