Environmental Compliance Project Manager

Environmental Compliance Project Manager

Environmental Compliance Project Manager – UST (Underground Storage Tank) Compliance

UST = Underground Storage Tank compliance (fuel retail/petroleum/environmental). This is NOT a financial, HIPAA, SOX, or legal compliance role.

Please do not apply unless you have direct experience with USTs, fuel retail environmental regulations, or petroleum/UST-adjacent industries.

Full-Time | Remote with in-office opportunities in NC and MA | Reports to Senior Director of Solution Strategy | $55,000–$75,000 annual

The Role

Pinnacle is looking for an Environmental Compliance Project Manager to own the delivery of UST compliance programs across our clients' retail fueling portfolios. This role is responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the Compliance team and the successful management of all projects within the Compliance service area. The Environmental Compliance Project Manager sets priorities, assigns work, manages team capacity, monitors project performance, and ensures that each project is successful. Our Compliance Specialists keep individual sites in line; this role makes sure the whole program runs on time, on scope, and with nothing slipping between sites, vendors, and deadlines.

Pinnacle works as an extension of our clients' environmental compliance teams. That can mean filling gaps after staffing turnover, absorbing surge work as a portfolio grows, or serving as a long-term outsourced partner so clients can focus on proactive asset planning. We don't own tanks, we don't do the testing, and we don't do field work. What we do is make sure the compliance program runs, the records hold up, and the gaps get closed before they turn into violations, lost insurance coverage, or lost revenue.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The Environmental Compliance Project Manager will balance team supervision with direct project and client responsibilities. You'll plan and run projects: build compliance calendars, set milestones, provide clear direction to the Compliance Specialists, specialists, coordinate vendors, contractors and regulators, and report progress clearly. You'll be supported by Pinnacle's holistic service model that unites the right People, efficient Process, and compliance Platforms.

What You'd Be Doing

• Compliance project portfolio management: Maintain oversight of all active projects within the Compliance service area. Own the day-to-day operation of Pinnacle’s Compliance service area, creating structure across people, projects, priorities, systems, and client communications. Service as the central point for ensuring work is assigned, tracked, completed, and escalated quickly.
• Program planning and scheduling: Build and maintain multi-site compliance calendars covering annual and triennial line and tank tightness testing, ATG certifications, Stage I/II vapor recovery, cathodic protection, monthly release detection reviews, and 30-day walkthrough inspections. Set milestones and keep every site ahead of its due dates.
• Client onboarding and program transitions: Lead the setup of new client portfolios, from gathering site records and registrations to establishing baselines, closing inherited gaps, and getting the program into a steady operating rhythm.
• Return-to-compliance projects: Manage the resolution of notices of violation, failed tests, and suspected release follow-ups as defined projects with owners, action plans, and deadlines, driving each through to a documented return to compliance inside the state's required window.
• Team capacity and vendor coordination: Assign and balance work across Pinnacle Compliance Specialists, dispatch and manage testing and repair contractors, and hold every party to scope, schedule, and closeout documentation. Forecast resource and capacity needs across the portfolio and proactively identify gaps before they impact client delivery. Serve as the point of contact for compliance vendor coordination.
• Project budgets and invoicing: Manage project budget based on scope of work and resource requirements, including work in process and invoicing. Review billable hours by project against client purchase orders and Work with leadership to proactively address overruns, change orders, or resource needs.
• Permitting and capital-project support: Coordinate the registration, permitting, financial assurance, and state fund work tied to new-to-industry sites, raze and rebuilds, tank replacements and removals, closures, and ownership transfers, keeping each on track with construction and client timelines.
• Status reporting and client communication: Serve as a primary point of contact for client compliance contacts. Deliver proactive clear status reports, portfolio dashboards, and risk summaries, and run regular check-ins so clients always know where their program stands.
• Risk and issue management: Track open items, upcoming deadlines, and recurring problem sites. Support early escalation, collaborate on recommended fixes, and track issue and risks through completion.
• Team Leadership and Supervision: Provide day-to-day supervision of Pinnacle's Compliance Specialists, including setting priorities, assigning work, balancing workloads, reviewing deliverables, coaching team members, reinforcing performance expectations, and addressing any delivery or capacity concerns. Support onboarding, training, professional development, and regular individual and team check-ins.
• Compliance standards, SOP’s, and training: Own the operating standards for how Pinnacle delivers Compliance services. Ensure SOPs, training materials, workflows, and QC practices are documented, current, usable, and consistently followed. Identify knowledge gaps and coordinate technical training and cross-training to build redundancy across the team.
• Subject Matter Expertise Coordination: Maintain sufficient UST compliance expertise to provide technical direction, recognize risk, and review the team’s work, while engaging internal or external SME’s when specialized knowledge is required. The Environmental Compliance Project Manager remains accountable for moving the work forward even when technical input comes from others.
• Service-area growth and planning: Work with stakeholders to evaluate compliance opportunities, define resource requirements, support scopes and work plans, and ensure new work can be delivered successfully before commitments are made.
  

What You'd Bring

• Three or more years in UST or AST compliance with an owner or operator, an environmental consultancy, or a state program, including time coordinating work across multiple sites.
• Three or more years of experience leading or supervising employees or project teams; responsible for assigning work, providing feedback, etc.
• Demonstrated project management experience: planning schedules, managing deadlines, proactive communication, coordinating vendors,, working with stakeholders, and seeing work through to documented closeout.
• Ability to work within frameworks and processes
• Ability to develop and train team members on systems and processes
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects. This role is responsible for a portfolio of 10-15 small to complex projects.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to identify what needs to happen next, follow issues through resolution, and take responsibility for outcomes rather than individual tasks.
• A working command of 40 CFR Part 280 and at least one state UST program.
• Class A or Class B operator training, or the readiness to complete it.
• Confidence working directly with clients, owners, operators, contractors, and regulators, with clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong Excel skills, fluency with a compliance platform, and experience using a project management platform.
• Availability for the shared on-call rotation.

Useful but not required: experience with Monday.com (Pinnacle's project management platform), PMP or CAPM certification (or active pursuit), a multi-state site portfolio, experience onboarding or transitioning compliance programs, existing relationships with state agency staff, or exposure to state UST cleanup programs.

Why Pinnacle

For over 30 years, Pinnacle has built an exceptional reputation for delivering results for clients in the fuel retail industry. Our success comes from talented people who take pride in their work, value collaboration, and understand that our clients' success is at the heart of what we do every day.

This role sits where our compliance expertise meets disciplined delivery and people leadership. You'll lead an experienced Compliance team, establish how work is prioritized and delivered, and help strengthen systems and standards that support a growing service area. You will have direct visibility into client results, team development, and performance.

We invest in competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, employee well-being, and opportunities to learn and grow. If you're looking for a company where people matter, teamwork matters, and results matter, Pinnacle is a place to build a rewarding career.

What We Offer

• $55,000–$75,000 annual, based on experience
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Paid time off, holiday pay, and company-paid life insurance
• Certification and continuing education paid for, including Class A and B operator training and project management credentials
• Remote work, with flexibility and work measured by what gets done

How to Apply

Apply through pinnacleems.com/careers. We review applications as they come in and we'll tell you where you stand at each step. If you want to stand out, tell us about a multi-site compliance program or project you managed: what the scope and deadlines were, how you kept people and vendors on track, and how you knew it was delivered.

Pinnacle Environmental Management Support is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.