Program Manager - Environmental Restoration/Remediation

About this role

BB&E is seeking a collaborative, proactive, and technically capable Program Manager – Environmental Restoration/Remediation to lead and grow Federal environmental restoration and remediation programs. The Program Manager will provide leadership, oversight, and direction across a portfolio of projects and multidisciplinary teams to ensure successful performance in scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, regulatory compliance, and client satisfaction.
The Program Manager will lead and support Project Managers, technical staff, subcontractors, and corporate support personnel in executing complex environmental restoration programs. The role requires the ability to identify project and portfolio risks early, exercise sound judgment and make timely decisions within their area of responsibility and authority, develop and implement corrective actions, communicate effectively with client and regulatory stakeholders, and maintain disciplined project controls and forecasting.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical knowledge of environmental investigation and remediation with demonstrated program and project management, financial stewardship, client relationship management, staff development, and business development experience. The role requires strategic thinking beyond immediate project and program needs, with the ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities, evaluate their broader implications, and develop practical solutions that support BB&E’s long-term goals and business performance. This individual will serve as a primary relationship steward for assigned Federal clients and will provide the direction, structure, and accountability necessary to ensure project success, reinforce BB&E’s culture and values, strengthen client relationships, develop staff, and support BB&E's strategic growth. This position is based onsite at BB&E’s Atlanta, GA office.
Program Scope
Programs and projects may support the Department of Defense (DoD) and other Federal agencies and may include work performed at active military installations, Federal facilities, and other complex sites subject to Federal and state environmental requirements.
The Program Manager will provide technical and programmatic leadership for environmental restoration and remediation activities that may include:

• CERCLA and RCRA investigation, remediation, and corrective action

• Preliminary Assessments/Site Inspections (PA/SI), Remedial Investigations/Feasibility Studies (RI/FS), and RCRA Facility Investigations/Corrective Measures Studies (RFI/CMS)

• Site characterization and environmental sampling programs

• Remedial design and remedial action

• Removal actions and interim corrective measures

• Long-term monitoring and long-term management

• Groundwater, soil, sediment, and surface-water investigation and remediation

• Emerging contaminants, including PFAS

• Underground and aboveground storage tank releases and petroleum-contaminated sites

• Risk assessment and risk-based corrective action

• Remedy optimization, operation and maintenance, and performance evaluation

• Regulatory coordination, technical documentation, and stakeholder engagement

• Environmental restoration planning, cost estimating, scheduling, and program reporting
Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of Federal environmental restoration and remediation projects, providing overall direction and accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and client satisfaction.

• Provide strategic leadership across assigned programs by anticipating challenges and opportunities, evaluating their potential impacts on clients, projects, resources, financial performance, and growth, and translating those insights into practical actions and priorities that support BB&E’s long-term goals.

• Serve as a primary client account manager, maintaining strong relationships with Federal clients, regulatory agencies, installation/facility leadership, and other key stakeholders.

• Lead and support multidisciplinary project teams, including Project Managers, technical staff, subcontractors, laboratories, and specialty consultants; provide coaching and mentoring to strengthen staff and project management capabilities.

• Monitor project and program performance through regular reviews of financials, forecasts, schedules, staffing, risks, and technical progress, identifying issues early and leading corrective actions when needed.

• Exercise sound judgment and make timely decisions within the Program Manager’s area of responsibility and authority. Take ownership of issues requiring Program Manager action while recognizing when risk, complexity, financial exposure, client impact, or organizational significance warrants additional input or escalation.

• Provide technical and quality oversight for environmental investigation, restoration, and remediation work, ensuring approaches and deliverables are technically sound, defensible, and compliant with contractual and regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate staffing and resources across assigned programs, working with the Resource Manager, Project Managers, technical leaders, and corporate support teams to address workload, capability, and delivery needs.

• Maintain responsibility for the financial performance of assigned programs, including revenue, margin, backlog, forecasting, billing, and effective management of project and subcontractor costs.

• Support business development and growth by identifying follow-on and new opportunities, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to capture strategies, proposals, scopes, staffing plans, and cost estimates.

• Promote and reinforce a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture consistent with BB&E’s values and commitment to client service, technical excellence, staff development, and shared ownership. Lead by example, communicate organizational priorities and expectations constructively, and reinforce BB&E’s culture through…