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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription: The Sustainability Manager, Assurance is a client-facing people leader responsible for managing the operations, quality, and growth of Environ's greenhouse gas (GHG) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assurance services. The Manager translates department strategy into executable workplans, leads assurance engagements from scoping through issuance, and establishes the methods, controls, competencies, and performance measures needed for a credible and scalable assurance program. The role guides the professional achievement of individual contributors and is accountable for delivery quality, schedule, budget, risk management, client experience, and continuous improvement. The Manager combines technical assurance expertise with practical project and people leadership. The individual collaborates with clients, partners, project directors, and multidisciplinary teams, explains complex requirements clearly, and ensures conclusions are supported by sufficient, appropriate evidence and documented assumptions and limitations.About Environ Our mission is to provide the best energy, engineering, and sustainability solutions to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. Since 1995, Environ Energy has been a trusted advisor, delivering integrated energy management solutions that help clients lower costs, mitigate risk, improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, and meet evolving regulatory and environmental requirements. With billions in portfolio spend under management, Environ serves commercial and industrial organizations across healthcare, manufacturing, education, real estate, finance, government, and other industries with practical solutions that drive measurable results. Learn .Core Responsibilities: Assurance Program Leadership and Operations Manage day-to-day operations of the GHG/ESG assurance function and execute department strategies to achieve agreed key performance metrics.Build, maintain, and continuously improve an assurance methodology, including engagement acceptance, independence and conflict checks, scoping, risk assessment, materiality, evidence planning, sampling, review, issue resolution, documentation, and statement issuance.Establish repeatable templates, workpapers, review protocols, records-retention practices, and quality-control checkpoints that support consistent, audit-ready delivery.Plan the engagement portfolio, assign resources based on competence and independence, monitor capacity, and surface delivery, quality, budget, or client risks early.Define and monitor program measures such as on-time delivery, budget performance, review findings, rework, client feedback, staff utilization, and corrective-action closure.Maintain awareness of relevant assurance, GHG accounting, sustainability reporting, and regulatory developments; translate changes into practical updates to methods, training, and client guidance. Engagement Delivery and Technical Oversight Lead and review GHG and ESG assurance engagements from discovery and proposal development through planning, fieldwork, reporting, and closeout.Scope work, estimate effort, develop workplans and budgets, identify required expertise, and document the criteria, organizational and operational boundaries, intended users, level and type of assurance, materiality, and deliverables.Evaluate GHG emissions sources, categories, calculation methods, emission factors, estimates, data controls, supporting evidence, consolidation approaches, and reporting boundaries across Scope 1, Scope 2, and relevant Scope 3 categories.Assess ESG metrics, management assertions, reporting processes, data lineage, internal controls, and alignment with applicable reporting criteria and client commitments.Apply professional judgment and professional skepticism; identify risks of material misstatement, design responsive procedures, evaluate evidence, and resolve exceptions or limitations.Perform or direct interviews, walkthroughs, ana