Remote Environmental Director Jobs
Remote environmental director jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors from consulting and renewable energy to nonprofits and technology, with distributed teams hiring at both senior leadership and principal levels. Companies hiring remotely right now include Versar, secretariat, and Univar Solutions. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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 Environmental Restoration & Health service line for U.S. federal customers, establishing strategy, operating objectives, technical standards, and measurable performance goals.
- Develop and execute a growth strategy integrating site characterization, remedial investigations and feasibility studies, remedial design and construction, remedy operations and optimization, environmental health, risk assessment, emerging contaminants, and site closure.
- Serve as a senior client and technical advisor, aligning environmental restoration and health strategies with regulatory obligations, mission requirements, community protection, budgets, schedules, and long-term stewardship.
- Oversee complex programs involving contaminated soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, soil gas, vapor intrusion, petroleum, hazardous substances, munitions-related constituents, and emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams through preliminary assessments, site inspections, investigations, feasibility studies, engineering evaluations and cost analyses, corrective measures studies, remedial designs, removal actions, construction, operations and maintenance, optimization, and closure.
- Provide senior oversight for human health and ecological risk assessments, exposure evaluations, environmental toxicology, risk communication, occupational and community health considerations, and risk-management strategies.
- Integrate environmental, health, and safety planning into field investigations, laboratory programs, remediation construction, system operations, emergency response, and other site activities.
- Ensure technical approaches and deliverables align with applicable federal and state requirements and customer procedures, including programs governed by CERCLA, RCRA, underground storage tank requirements, and other site-specific authorities.
- Establish project governance, quality-management, independent technical-review, and data-quality processes that produce accurate, consistent, auditable, and implementation-ready work products.
- Advise project teams on conceptual site models, data-quality objectives, remedial alternatives, treatability and pilot studies, lifecycle costs, sustainability, regulatory strategy, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and long-term remedy performance.
- Build, mentor, and retain a multidisciplinary team of engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, chemists, toxicologists, risk assessors, environmental scientists, health and safety professionals, data specialists, construction managers, and project managers.
- Plan workforce capacity, identify critical skill gaps, support recruiting and professional development, and coordinate resources across offices, laboratories, subcontractors, business areas, and partner organizations.
- Maintain trusted relationships with federal program executives, contracting personnel, installation leaders, regulators, public health and resource agencies, tribal representatives, community stakeholders, and teaming partners.
- Lead capture and proposal activities for strategic federal opportunities, including market positioning, client engagement, solution development, teaming, technical approaches, staffing plans, bases of estimate, risk reviews, and oral presentations.
- Monitor market, policy, regulatory, funding, scientific, and technology developments affecting federal remediation and environmental health programs and translating them into service offerings and investment priorities.
- 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.
- Oversee service-line financial and operational performance, including pipeline, backlog, revenue, profitability, utilization, project health, forecast accuracy, quality, safety, 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 technical, contractual, financial, and execution risks.
- Represent Versar at client meetings, industry events, professional associations, technical forums, and conferences, strengthening the company’s reputation in federal environmental restoration and health markets.
- Travel periodically to federal facilities, installations, project sites, client offices, and industry events while complying with applicable safety, security, ethics, medical-clearance, and information-handling requirements.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental, civil, chemical, or geotechnical engineering; geology; hydrogeology; environmental science; toxicology; or a related scientific or technical discipline.
- Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in federal environmental remediation, restoration, or related consulting services, including leadership of complex multidisciplinary programs or portfolios. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Demonstrated experience supporting U.S. federal civilian agencies, military departments, federal installations, environmental restoration programs, or other mission-oriented federal organizations.
- Deep knowledge of the environmental remediation lifecycle, including site characterization, conceptual site model development, alternatives evaluation, remedy selection, design, construction, operations, optimization, performance monitoring, and closure.
- Working knowledge of CERCLA, RCRA corrective action, and related federal and state environmental restoration frameworks.
- Broad knowledge of remediation technologies for soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, soil gas, and vapor intrusion, including evaluation of implementability, effectiveness, lifecycle cost, sustainability, and risk.
- Experience addressing emerging contaminants, preferably including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and adapting programs to evolving science, policy, analytical methods, and regulatory expectations.
- Demonstrated commitment to safe field and construction execution, including knowledge of project health and safety planning and hazardous-waste operations requirements.
- Demonstrated success leading and developing multidisciplinary teams, managers, and technical leads while maintaining high standards for technical quality, safety, and client service.
- Experience managing program or portfolio scope, schedule, budget, staffing, subcontractors, financial performance, quality, safety, and risk across multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated success with federal business development, capture planning, proposal leadership, client engagement, teaming, and expansion of existing accounts or service offerings.
- Ability to translate complex engineering, scientific, regulatory, health, and stakeholder issues into clear executive decisions, practical delivery strategies, and concise written and visual communications.
- Exceptional leadership, collaboration, negotiation, facilitation, technical writing, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate, implement, and scale innovative technologies, digital solutions, or improved delivery methods within environmental, engineering, scientific, construction, or federal program environments.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications. Familiarity with environmental data-management systems, geographic information systems, environmental modeling tools, project controls, customer relationship management, and business intelligence applications is preferred.
- Professional Engineer or Professional Geologist registration, Project Management Professional certification, advanced degree, or another relevant professional credential is preferred.
- Current OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER training and required refreshers, or the ability to complete the required training before performing covered field work.
- Ability to travel to federal customer sites and work in office, field, laboratory, construction, industrial, or installation environments as required by the assignment.
- Ability to meet project-specific medical surveillance, respiratory protection, personal protective equipment, training, and site-access requirements when applicable.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the federal background investigation, credential, site access, or security clearance required by the customer or contract.
- Must be proficient in English, both written and verbal, to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
- Successful completion of preemployment screenings, including a federal background check, motor vehicle record review, and drug screening, as applicable to the position.
- Compliance with the company drug and alcohol policy.
- Authorization to work in the United States by the successful candidate’s start date.
Compensation
Expected Salary: $180,000/yr - $200,000/yr
Versar Global Solutions provides the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the Company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, state, or federal law.
Location Requirements
The positions is flexible to remote, hybrid, or office locations. The employee may be required to work at Versar offices, federal customer locations, installations, project sites, or other approved facilities. Travel of up to 25% may be required.
EEO Commitment
Versar Global Solutions is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Versar Global Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Versar Global Solutions expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran. Improper interference with the ability of Versar Global Solutions employees to perform their job duties is not tolerated.
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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 Environmental Restoration & Health service line for U.S. federal customers, establishing strategy, operating objectives, technical standards, and measurable performance goals.
- Develop and execute a growth strategy integrating site characterization, remedial investigations and feasibility studies, remedial design and construction, remedy operations and optimization, environmental health, risk assessment, emerging contaminants, and site closure.
- Serve as a senior client and technical advisor, aligning environmental restoration and health strategies with regulatory obligations, mission requirements, community protection, budgets, schedules, and long-term stewardship.
- Oversee complex programs involving contaminated soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, soil gas, vapor intrusion, petroleum, hazardous substances, munitions-related constituents, and emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams through preliminary assessments, site inspections, investigations, feasibility studies, engineering evaluations and cost analyses, corrective measures studies, remedial designs, removal actions, construction, operations and maintenance, optimization, and closure.
- Provide senior oversight for human health and ecological risk assessments, exposure evaluations, environmental toxicology, risk communication, occupational and community health considerations, and risk-management strategies.
- Integrate environmental, health, and safety planning into field investigations, laboratory programs, remediation construction, system operations, emergency response, and other site activities.
- Ensure technical approaches and deliverables align with applicable federal and state requirements and customer procedures, including programs governed by CERCLA, RCRA, underground storage tank requirements, and other site-specific authorities.
- Establish project governance, quality-management, independent technical-review, and data-quality processes that produce accurate, consistent, auditable, and implementation-ready work products.
- Advise project teams on conceptual site models, data-quality objectives, remedial alternatives, treatability and pilot studies, lifecycle costs, sustainability, regulatory strategy, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and long-term remedy performance.
- Build, mentor, and retain a multidisciplinary team of engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, chemists, toxicologists, risk assessors, environmental scientists, health and safety professionals, data specialists, construction managers, and project managers.
- Plan workforce capacity, identify critical skill gaps, support recruiting and professional development, and coordinate resources across offices, laboratories, subcontractors, business areas, and partner organizations.
- Maintain trusted relationships with federal program executives, contracting personnel, installation leaders, regulators, public health and resource agencies, tribal representatives, community stakeholders, and teaming partners.
- Lead capture and proposal activities for strategic federal opportunities, including market positioning, client engagement, solution development, teaming, technical approaches, staffing plans, bases of estimate, risk reviews, and oral presentations.
- Monitor market, policy, regulatory, funding, scientific, and technology developments affecting federal remediation and environmental health programs and translating them into service offerings and investment priorities.
- 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.
- Oversee service-line financial and operational performance, including pipeline, backlog, revenue, profitability, utilization, project health, forecast accuracy, quality, safety, 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 technical, contractual, financial, and execution risks.
- Represent Versar at client meetings, industry events, professional associations, technical forums, and conferences, strengthening the company’s reputation in federal environmental restoration and health markets.
- Travel periodically to federal facilities, installations, project sites, client offices, and industry events while complying with applicable safety, security, ethics, medical-clearance, and information-handling requirements.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental, civil, chemical, or geotechnical engineering; geology; hydrogeology; environmental science; toxicology; or a related scientific or technical discipline.
- Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in federal environmental remediation, restoration, or related consulting services, including leadership of complex multidisciplinary programs or portfolios. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Demonstrated experience supporting U.S. federal civilian agencies, military departments, federal installations, environmental restoration programs, or other mission-oriented federal organizations.
- Deep knowledge of the environmental remediation lifecycle, including site characterization, conceptual site model development, alternatives evaluation, remedy selection, design, construction, operations, optimization, performance monitoring, and closure.
- Working knowledge of CERCLA, RCRA corrective action, and related federal and state environmental restoration frameworks.
- Broad knowledge of remediation technologies for soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, soil gas, and vapor intrusion, including evaluation of implementability, effectiveness, lifecycle cost, sustainability, and risk.
- Experience addressing emerging contaminants, preferably including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and adapting programs to evolving science, policy, analytical methods, and regulatory expectations.
- Demonstrated commitment to safe field and construction execution, including knowledge of project health and safety planning and hazardous-waste operations requirements.
- Demonstrated success leading and developing multidisciplinary teams, managers, and technical leads while maintaining high standards for technical quality, safety, and client service.
- Experience managing program or portfolio scope, schedule, budget, staffing, subcontractors, financial performance, quality, safety, and risk across multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated success with federal business development, capture planning, proposal leadership, client engagement, teaming, and expansion of existing accounts or service offerings.
- Ability to translate complex engineering, scientific, regulatory, health, and stakeholder issues into clear executive decisions, practical delivery strategies, and concise written and visual communications.
- Exceptional leadership, collaboration, negotiation, facilitation, technical writing, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate, implement, and scale innovative technologies, digital solutions, or improved delivery methods within environmental, engineering, scientific, construction, or federal program environments.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications. Familiarity with environmental data-management systems, geographic information systems, environmental modeling tools, project controls, customer relationship management, and business intelligence applications is preferred.
- Professional Engineer or Professional Geologist registration, Project Management Professional certification, advanced degree, or another relevant professional credential is preferred.
- Current OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER training and required refreshers, or the ability to complete the required training before performing covered field work.
- Ability to travel to federal customer sites and work in office, field, laboratory, construction, industrial, or installation environments as required by the assignment.
- Ability to meet project-specific medical surveillance, respiratory protection, personal protective equipment, training, and site-access requirements when applicable.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the federal background investigation, credential, site access, or security clearance required by the customer or contract.
- Must be proficient in English, both written and verbal, to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
- Successful completion of preemployment screenings, including a federal background check, motor vehicle record review, and drug screening, as applicable to the position.
- Compliance with the company drug and alcohol policy.
- Authorization to work in the United States by the successful candidate’s start date.
Compensation
Expected Salary: $180,000/yr - $200,000/yr
Versar Global Solutions provides the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the Company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, state, or federal law.
Location Requirements
The positions is flexible to remote, hybrid, or office locations. The employee may be required to work at Versar offices, federal customer locations, installations, project sites, or other approved facilities. Travel of up to 25% may be required.
EEO Commitment
Versar Global Solutions is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Versar Global Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Versar Global Solutions expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran. Improper interference with the ability of Versar Global Solutions employees to perform their job duties is not tolerated.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote environmental director jobs.
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience managing regulatory compliance under federal and state environmental law
- Familiarity with EPA permitting processes, environmental impact assessments, and agency reporting
- Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or equivalent professional certification
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing environmental staff or contractors
- Proficiency with environmental management systems and data tracking software platforms
Tips for Your Remote Environmental Director Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote environmental director openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through listings that aren't actually remote.
Show async leadership in your application materials
Remote employers want proof you can direct environmental programs without in-person check-ins. Lead with examples of compliance outcomes you managed through written reporting, digital project tools like Asana or Monday, and distributed team coordination rather than on-site supervision.
Signal remote readiness in your interview
Remote environmental director interviews often test how you handle asynchronous decision-making. Prepare concrete examples of regulatory situations you resolved remotely, how you kept distributed stakeholders aligned, and how you structure your workday without office anchors.
Target sectors with distributed environmental programs
Renewable energy developers, environmental consulting firms, and sustainability-focused technology companies are the most consistent sources of remote environmental director openings because their operations are inherently multi-site and their leadership teams are already distributed.
Remote Environmental Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote environmental director job?
Remote environmental director roles go to candidates who can demonstrate they lead environmental programs without being on-site every day. Remote-first consulting firms, environmental nonprofits, and sustainability-focused tech companies are the most active remote hirers. Employers screen for strong written communication, comfort with async reporting structures, and a history of managing cross-functional teams without in-person oversight. Certifications like CHMM or a strong portfolio of compliance outcomes give candidates a concrete edge.
Which companies hire remote environmental directors?
Remote environmental director roles are posted by Versar, secretariat, and Univar Solutions and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first environmental consulting firms, distributed renewable energy developers, and sustainability-driven organizations across technology, finance, and the nonprofit sector.
Can you get a remote environmental director job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level environmental director roles are rare and demand strong self-direction from day one since there is no manager down the hall. Environmental consulting firms and smaller nonprofits are most likely to hire candidates stepping into the role for the first time remotely. A portfolio showing completed audits, compliance reports, or sustainability project outcomes can substitute for years of titled experience and open those doors.
Do you need a degree for remote environmental director jobs?
Usually, but the degree requirement is flexible depending on what else a candidate brings. Most remote employers expect a bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related field, and many prefer a master's. Remote hiring teams weigh professional certifications, documented compliance outcomes, and experience managing distributed environmental programs heavily alongside formal credentials.
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