Air Quality - Managing Consultant

Overview

Senior air quality consulting role within ERM's Global Delivery Centre in India, acting as technical authority on air permitting, regulatory reporting and EPCRA/TRI programs for multi-facility industrial clients.

What you'll do

• Own the technical approach and final reviews for major permits (Title V, PSD/NSR, construction) and IED/national submissions.
• Establish defensible narratives, calculations, BACT/LAER, and modeling coherence with applications.
• Direct multi-facility AERR, Title V, MACT/NESHAP, IED/national, TRI and Tier II programs.
• Enforce data lineage, factor defensibility, and reconciliation between permitting and reporting datasets.
• Provide interpretation on complex TRI applicability, thresholds, and releases; audit TRI/Tier II programs.
• Lead systematic organization and cleanup of large operational/EHS datasets; standardize Excel-based calculation workbooks with QA/QC logic; design Power BI views for portfolio QA and progress tracking.
• Steward permit reviews and issuance with agencies; prepare response-to-comments, negotiation support, and public participation materials.
• Design compliance assurance frameworks linking permit conditions, monitoring/recordkeeping, and periodic reports.
• Coach CL1–CL2 staff on emissions calculations, TRI thresholds, chemical nomenclature/stoichiometry, SDS interpretation, and QA practices.
• Lead cross-region technical workstreams, set scopes and review gates, and ensure delivery to scope, budget, schedule and quality; support proposal technical scoping.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's in Environmental, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or related field.
• 10–15+ years in EHS/air quality consulting with strong exposure to industrial sectors and complex production environments.
• Senior experience in permitting, EPCRA/TRI portfolios, and QA reviews.
• Ability to interpret chemical nomenclature and reactions, perform stoichiometric conversions, and extract key chemicals from SDS to support threshold/release calculations.
• Advanced Excel skills (array formulas, VBA, data cleanup).
• Strong attention to detail and patience for TRI/Tier II and calculation-intensive tasks.
• Ability to manage multiple programs to strict deadlines.
• Strong written and oral communication for technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Advanced credentials (QEP, PE, PMP).
• Power BI and Access experience.
• Familiarity with AERMOD/CALPUFF/ADMS inputs/outputs and environmental compliance platforms.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work within a unified Global Delivery Centre collaborating with international teams.