Responsibilities
• Lead and grow Versar’s Integrated Planning & Permitting service line in support of U.S. federal customers, establishing strategic priorities, annual operating objectives, technical standards, and measurable performance goals.
• Develop and execute a service line growth strategy that integrates National Environmental Policy Act compliance, installation and master planning, area development planning, natural and cultural resources, environmental permitting, stakeholder engagement, and related advisory services.
• Serve as a senior client and technical advisor, helping federal agencies define planning and permitting strategies that align mission requirements, infrastructure investments, environmental stewardship, schedules, budgets, and implementation constraints.
• Oversee delivery of complex programs and projects involving NEPA documentation, master plans, installation development plans, area development plans, planning studies, site-selection analyses, environmental baseline studies, and implementation roadmaps.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams in integrating land use, facilities, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, resilience, sustainability, encroachment, natural resources, cultural resources, and environmental compliance considerations into defensible planning decisions.
• Provide senior oversight for environmental permitting and consultation strategies, including requirements associated with wetlands and waters, threatened and endangered species, historic properties, air quality, water quality, stormwater, coastal resources, hazardous materials, and other applicable federal, state, tribal, and local approvals.
• Establish project governance, quality-management, and technical-review processes that produce accurate, consistent, auditable, and implementation-ready deliverables.
• Advise project teams on purpose and need, alternatives development, cumulative effects, mitigation, agency coordination, consultation, public involvement, permit sequencing, regulatory risk, and administrative-record considerations.
• Build, mentor, and retain a multidisciplinary team of planners, NEPA practitioners, permitting specialists, natural and cultural resource professionals, engineers, scientists, GIS analysts, technical editors, and project managers.
• Plan workforce capacity, identify critical skill gaps, support recruiting and professional development, and coordinate resources across offices, business areas, and partner organizations.
• Maintain trusted relat
Job description
Who We Are:
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Versar Global Solutions provides full mission lifecycle solutions for challenges faced by our government and commercial Customers in the natural, built, and digital environments. With team members around the world and a rich legacy spanning more than 50 years, Versar Global Solutions delivers a broad array of planning, analysis and risk management solutions, project and program management, operations and maintenance services, and information technology applications for environmental management and remediation projects, mission critical facilities and installations, and in support of readiness and contingency operations.
Who You Are:
You are a strategic, client-focused leader with deep experience in environmental remediation, environmental health, and federal environmental program delivery. You combine technical credibility, business leadership, and disciplined execution to help federal customers investigate, manage, remediate, and close contaminated sites while protecting workers, communities, ecological receptors, and mission operations. You build high-performing multidisciplinary teams, strengthen technical standards, grow client relationships, and translate regulatory, scientific, safety, and stakeholder requirements into practical, defensible, and executable solutions.
What You’ll Do:
• Lead and grow Versar’s Integrated Planning & Permitting service line in support of U.S. federal customers, establishing strategic priorities, annual operating objectives, technical standards, and measurable performance goals.
• Develop and execute a service line growth strategy that integrates National Environmental Policy Act compliance, installation and master planning, area development planning, natural and cultural resources, environmental permitting, stakeholder engagement, and related advisory services.
• Serve as a senior client and technical advisor, helping federal agencies define planning and permitting strategies that align mission requirements, infrastructure investments, environmental stewardship, schedules, budgets, and implementation constraints.
• Oversee delivery of complex programs and projects involving NEPA documentation, master plans, installation development plans, area development plans, planning studies, site-selection analyses, environmental baseline studies, and implementation roadmaps.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams in integrating land use, facilities, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, resilience, sustainability, encroachment, natural resources, cultural resources, and environmental compliance considerations into defensible planning decisions.
• Provide senior oversight for environmental permitting and consultation strategies, including requirements associated with wetlands and waters, threatened and endangered species, historic properties, air quality, water quality, stormwater, coastal resources, hazardous materials, and other applicable federal, state, tribal, and local approvals.
• Establish project governance, quality-management, and technical-review processes that produce accurate, consistent, auditable, and implementation-ready deliverables.
• Advise project teams on purpose and need, alternatives development, cumulative effects, mitigation, agency coordination, consultation, public involvement, permit sequencing, regulatory risk, and administrative-record considerations.
• Build, mentor, and retain a multidisciplinary team of planners, NEPA practitioners, permitting specialists, natural and cultural resource professionals, engineers, scientists, GIS analysts, technical editors, and project managers.
• Plan workforce capacity, identify critical skill gaps, support recruiting and professional development, and coordinate resources across offices, business areas, and partner organizations.
• Maintain trusted relationships with federal program executives, contracting personnel, installation leaders, regulators, resource agencies, tribal representatives, team partners, and other stakeholders.
• Champion innovation and technology-enabled delivery by identifying, evaluating, piloting, and scaling practical solutions that enhance technical quality, data integrity, decision-making, project efficiency, lifecycle cost, and environmental outcomes.
• Lead capture and proposal activities for strategic federal opportunities, including market positioning, client engagement, solution development, teaming, technical approaches, staffing plans, basis of estimate, risk reviews, and oral presentations.
• Monitor market, policy, regulatory, funding, and acquisition developments affecting federal integrated planning and permitting services and translating them into service offerings and investment priorities.
• Oversee service line financial and operational performance, including pipeline, backlog, revenue, profitability, utilization, project health, forecast accuracy, and corrective actions, consistent with assigned authority and company procedures.
• Partner with business development, operations, contracts, finance, legal, health and safety, quality, and other corporate functions to manage risk and support compliant execution.
• Represent Versar at client meetings, industry events, professional associations, technical forums, and conferences and strengthen the company’s reputation in federal planning and environmental compliance markets.
• Perform periodic travel to federal facilities, installations, project sites, client offices, and industry events while complying with applicable safety, security, ethics, and information-handling requirements.
• What You’ll Bring:
• Bachelor’s degree in planning, environmental science, natural or cultural resource management, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, geography, public policy, or related discipline.
• Twelve or more years of progressively responsible experience in federal planning, NEPA, environmental compliance, permitting, natural resources, cultur
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