
Environmental Specialist- Kiewit Nuclear Solutions
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Job overview
The Environmental Specialist will support Kiewit Nuclear Solutions projects by identifying environmental risks, tracking permits, managing stormwater plans, and helping ensure compliance with environmental requirements. The role combines field and office work and is based at the Lenexa, Kansas home office, with relocation and field rotations required. Project work includes current sites in Aiken, South Carolina, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, with additional sites pending.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
You bring your big ideas, commitment to top quality, and an unwavering work ethic. In return, we offer huge career and travel opportunities with the satisfaction of building the next big thing from the ground up (or under). There’s a reason Kiewit attracts the best: we offer fast-paced excitement and fulfillment you won’t find anywhere else. In addition, we look to hire you to join the entire Kiewit family for a career. This is not just a job, single project, or stepping stone.
Position Overview
You bring your big ideas, commitment to top quality, and an unwavering work ethic. In return, we offer huge career and travel opportunities with the satisfaction of building the next big thing from the ground up (or under). There’s a reason Kiewit attracts the best: we offer fast-paced excitement and fulfillment you won’t find anywhere else. In addition, we look to hire you to join the entire Kiewit family for a career. This is not just a job, single project, or stepping stone.
District Overview
Kiewit Nuclear Solutions is a full-service engineering, project management and construction provider operating across North America. Our experience spans all aspects of the nuclear market from carbon-free, small modular reactors to Department of Energy science, environmental and nuclear security mission capabilities. With these broad capabilities, we operate in the power utility, renewable energy, industrial and infrastructure markets.
Location
On-Site position, must be open to relocation and rotations in the field.
Home Office in Lenexa, KS
Current job job sites in Aiken, SC and IDaho Falls, ID.
Pending job sites in Piketon, OH and Oakridge, TN.
Responsibilities
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Review project documents to identify and communicate environmental risks to the project team.
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Review documents for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and Section 404/401 of the Clean Water Act, and Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
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Identify permit requirements of a project on a federal, state, and local level, and work in an electronic database to track these permits.
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Inspect and manage onsite stormwater management plans
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Forecast, track and communicate environmental costs.
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Review and develop environmental plans to address the following:
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Wetlands
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Noise
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Water quality
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Waste management
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Wildlife surveys
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Hazardous materials
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Stormwater
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SPCC/spill plans
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Mitigation plans for adverse impacts
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Develop and conduct environmental protection and awareness training.
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Manage environmental subconsultant budget and schedules.
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Balance hands-on/field (project site) work and office work to ensure compliance with environmental permits
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Effectively support and execute incident management processes when necessary
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Interpret and apply environmental specifications and drawings avoiding and minimizing adverse effects to the natural environment and local communities.
Qualifications
Continuous improvement of Environmental Program
Communicate environmental requirements
Collect and record environmental field data
Assess field operations for Environmental Risk
Access risk of regulatory changes
Coordinate environmental crisis management
Coordinate with other departments
Develop project level environmental plan(s)
Distribution of Environmental Documentation
Environmental Document Control
Environmental Presentations
Environmental initiatives and training
Environmental inspections
Environmental permits
Environmental regulation research
Environmental risk management
Kiewit Nuclear Solutions is a full-service engineering, project management and construction provider operating across North America. Our experience spans all aspects of the nuclear market from carbon-free, small modular reactors to Department of Energy science, environmental and nuclear security mission capabilities. With these broad capabilities, we operate in the power utility, renewable energy, industrial and infrastructure markets.
Company: Kiewit
How this job compares
Set against the 345 open Environmental Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$82–131K/yr155 salary ranges
- US median$33–50/hr65 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 345 open Environmental Specialist jobs across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- State of Minnesota28 open
- Burns & McDonnell23 open
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- Experience
- Environmental Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (257 postings).
- Education
- 164 of the 345 open Environmental Specialist jobs (48%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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