Compliance Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take charge of UST compliance initiatives across clients' retail fueling portfolios.

• Develop and sustain multi-site compliance calendars for testing, certifications, vapor recovery, cathodic protection, release detection evaluations, and walkthrough inspections.

• Establish milestones and ensure sites remain proactive regarding due dates.

• Oversee the onboarding process for new client portfolios and program transitions.

• Collect site records and registrations, set baselines, address inherited gaps, and create a systematic operating rhythm.

• Manage notices of violation, failed tests, and suspected release follow-ups through documented compliance restoration.

• Allocate and balance tasks among compliance specialists.

• Coordinate and manage testing and repair contractors while ensuring scope, schedule, and closeout documentation are maintained.

• Oversee project budgets, work in progress, invoicing, billable hours, and purchase orders.

• Facilitate registration, permitting, financial assurance, and state fund activities for construction and ownership projects.

• Act as the main point of contact for client compliance representatives.

• Provide status reports, portfolio dashboards, and risk summaries while conducting regular client check-ins.

• Monitor open items, deadlines, and recurring problem sites; escalate issues and propose solutions.

• Enhance templates, workflows, and compliance platform methodologies.

• Collaborate with specialists, contractors, client personnel, and regulatory bodies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of three years of experience in UST or AST compliance with an owner or operator, an environmental consultancy, or a state program, including coordinating work across multiple sites.

• Proven project management skills: planning schedules, managing deadlines, coordinating vendors or team members, and ensuring tasks reach documented closure.

• Proficient understanding of 40 CFR Part 280 and knowledge of at least one state UST program.

• Class A or Class B operator training certification, or the willingness to complete it.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills when interacting with clients, owners, operators, contractors, and regulators.

• Strong proficiency in Excel.

• Familiarity with a compliance platform.

• Experience with project management software.

• Willingness to participate in the shared on-call rotation.

• Direct experience with USTs, environmental regulations related to fuel retail, or industries adjacent to petroleum/UST.

• Preferred but not mandatory: experience with Monday.com, PMP or CAPM certification (or in active pursuit), managing a multi-state site portfolio, onboarding or transitioning compliance programs, established relationships with state agency personnel, or experience with state UST cleanup programs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program.

• 401(k) plan with employer contributions.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Funding for certification and continuing education, including Class A and B operator training as well as project management qualifications.

• Flexible remote work options, with performance evaluated based on task completion.