Air Quality - Managing Consultant

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.  

Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes.  

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery. 

Why this role matters? 

As an Air Quality - Managing Consultant, you will provide technical leadership across ERM's global Air Quality and Environmental Compliance portfolio, supporting complex permitting, regulatory reporting, and EPCRA/TRI programmes. You will partner with regional consultants, project managers, client teams, and regulatory agencies to deliver technically robust and regulator-ready solutions. This role is critical to maintaining the quality, consistency, and scalability of ERM's global compliance services while strengthening our technical excellence in air permitting, emissions reporting, and environmental data management. 

What your impact is? 

• Lead the delivery and technical review of complex air permitting applications, ensuring regulatory compliance and defensible technical outcomes. 

• Drive quality and consistency across global emissions inventory, EPCRA/TRI, Tier II, and compliance reporting programmes. 

• Strengthen ERM's technical capabilities through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and development of standardized methodologies and tools. 

• Improve data quality, transparency, and audit readiness through robust QA/QC processes and reporting frameworks. 

• Support successful client outcomes by managing regulator interactions, permit negotiations, and compliance assurance activities. 

• Contribute to growth of ERM's Air Quality and Compliance practice through proposal support, technical innovation, and best-practice development. 

What will you bring? 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a related discipline. 

• 10-15+ years of experience in environmental consulting, air quality permitting, and regulatory compliance programmes. 

• Strong expertise in Title V, PSD/NSR, construction permitting, MACT/NESHAP, AERR, TRI, Tier II, and international permitting/reporting frameworks. 

• Advanced knowledge of emissions estimation methodologies, control technology evaluations, and regulatory applicability assessments. 

• Demonstrated experience interpreting Safety Data Sheets (SDS), chemical inventories, and performing stoichiometric calculations for reporting and compliance purposes. 

• Advanced Excel skills, including complex calculations, data validation, automation, and QA/QC controls. 

• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary and global project teams while managing multiple priorities and deadlines. 

• Excellent technical writing, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, skills & competencies 

• Professional certifications such as PE, QEP, PMP, or equivalent credentials. 

• Experience with Power BI, Microsoft Access, Cority, ACTS, or similar compliance management platforms. 

• Familiarity with air dispersion modelling tools such as AERMOD, CALPUFF, or ADMS. 

• Experience leading global delivery teams and cross-regional compliance programmes. 

• Knowledge of digital compliance solutions, reporting automation, and environmental data analytics. 

Key responsibilities 

• Lead technical delivery and final reviews of complex air permit applications including Title V, PSD/NSR, construction permits, and international permitting programmes. 

• Direct multi-facility regulatory reporting programmes including AERR, MACT/NESHAP, TRI, Tier II, and other emissions reporting requirements. 

• Provide technical leadership on EPCRA/TRI applicability, threshold determinations, release calculations, and reporting methodologies. 

• Develop and maintain standardized calculation tools, reporting templates, QA/QC processes, and compliance methodologies. 

• Support permit reviews, agency interactions, public consultation responses, and regulatory negotiations.

• Establish compliance assurance frameworks linking permit obligations, monitoring requirements, and reporting deliverables.

• Mentor and develop junior consultants through technical reviews, coaching, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Lead project delivery, resource planning, quality reviews, and technical workstreams while ensuring projects are delivered to budget, schedule, and quality expectations.

• Contribute to proposals, solution development, technical scoping, and practice growth initiatives.

• Promote technical excellence and continuous improvement across global Air Quality and Environmental Compliance services.