Consultant-Liability Portfolio Management and Remediation

Why This Role Matter: Turning Environmental Liabilities into Sustainable Value Across Asia Pacific, industries face growing pressure to address legacy assets and contaminated sites while meeting sustainability and decarbonization goals. This role is pivotal in helping organizations transform environmental liabilities into risk-adjusted portfolios that unlock regeneration opportunities. By combining best practices with digital innovation, ERM partners with clients to reduce reputational risk, optimize operational footprints, and deliver nature-positive outcomes. Your expertise will shape strategies that balance compliance, cost efficiency, and stakeholder expectations, creating a legacy of environmental stewardship and resilience for the region’s future. What You Impact Is You will help deliver high-quality work that drives impactful programs for our clients, while building strong relationships and contributing fresh ideas to evolve our services. Through collaboration and continuous learning, you will strengthen our culture and create opportunities that support long-term success for both clients and the firm. Key Responsibilities Lead and execute environmental projects involving site investigation, remediation, and demolition activities. Provide EHS regulatory and compliance services, including Phase I, II, and III Environmental Site Assessments and remediation planning. Act as Project Manager for small to medium projects, ensuring timely delivery and quality standards. Prepare cost estimates, proposals, and technical reports. Manage subcontractors, including contract negotiations and performance oversight. Communicate effectively with clients to gather requirements and provide strategic solutions. Collaborate with ERM regional and global teams to deliver multi-office projects. Ensure health & safety leadership during all field and office activities. Qualifications Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Geology, Environmental Engineering, or related science (master’s preferred) 5–9 years of experience in contaminated site investigation, remediation, construction/demolition, cost estimation, and contractor management. Strong experience in EHS Due Diligence, audits, and compliance programs (local and international standards preferred). Proven track record in project delivery for industrial clients with strong planning and organizational skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English required (Japanese language proficiency is a plus if relevant to regional projects). Ability to travel extensively, work independently, and manage multiple priorities in a consulting environment. APAC Ready to Lead Way At ERM, your work creates impact that matters, helping global organizations tackle the most pressing sustainability challenges while shaping a better future for communities and the environment. Our vision is to empower you to grow, lead, and innovate alongside world-class clients on transformative projects. We prioritize wellbeing, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture where collaboration, expertise, and purpose drive meaningful impact. At ERM, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and innovation thrives. If you’re ready to make sustainability your mission and build a career that creates lasting change, your journey starts here You can apply for this role through Careers or through the internal careers portal if you are a current employee. Discover Life at ERM Curious about our culture and what makes ERM a great place to grow your career? Explore these resources to learn more about our people, values, and the impact we create: Talent Brochure: TM - Candidate brochure Life at ERM: Life at ERM At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation. With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet. 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