Air Quality Consulting Associate- India GDC (Gurgaon)

Who is ERM? ERM is a leading global sustainability consulting firm, committed for nearly 50 years to helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges. We bring together a diverse and inclusive community of experts across regions and disciplines, providing a truly multicultural environment that fosters collaboration, professional growth, and meaningful global exposure. As a people-first organization, ERM values well-being, career development, and the power of collective expertise to drive sustainable impact for our clients—and the planet. Introducing our new Global Delivery Centre (GDC) Our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) in India is a unified platform designed to deliver high-value services and solutions to ERM global clientele. By centralizing key business and consulting functions, we streamline operations, optimize service delivery, and enable our teams to focus on what matters most—advising clients on sustainability challenges with agility and innovation. Through the GDC, you will collaborate with international teams, leverage emerging technologies, and further enhance ERM commitment to excellence—amplifying our shared mission to make a lasting, positive impact. Job Objective ERM is seeking a motivated Air Quality Consulting Associate to join our consulting team in USA. The successful candidate will work on a variety of interesting technical projects for clients in the oil & gas, power, technology, and chemical sectors. This position is an excellent career opportunity to work with an expert consulting team on challenging environmental management projects for large industrial and global clients. ERM's national Air Quality experts provide knowledge sharing of best practices across the industry and ongoing learning opportunities for our team. ERM Air Quality technical community pursues and wins highly innovative engagements for the most interesting clients, providing the full breadth relevant services. In North America alone, ERM has more than 300 dedicated air quality and climate change professionals assisting clients with projects as diverse as developing responses to emerging Low Carbon Fuel Standards, to leading complex capital projects through the many hurdles associated with the New Source Review (NSR) permitting program. RESPONSIBILITIES: Conduct air quality analyses, assess regulatory compliance, and perform regulatory applicability evaluations. Develop complete and accurate air quality permits for Title V, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), and New Source Review compliance. Interact with local regulators to steward permit application review and issuance. Prepare emission inventory reports; quantify air pollutant emissions and impacts. Implement climate change projects, such as greenhouse gas inventories. Prepare recommendations and reporting of results, (i.e., emissions testing, hours of operations limits, or control devices). Perform multiple tasks within scope/budget/schedule expectations and ensure quality standards on project deliverables. Interact and maintain successful relationships with clients, ERM employees, and subcontractors. REQUIREMENTS: BS in chemical, environmental, or mechanical engineering; MS preferred but not mandatory. Recent graduate to 3 years of direct consulting or industry experience involving environmental permitting and compliance. Experience with air quality construction permits and Title V permitting; PSD, NSR, Best Available Control Technology (BACT), and/or MACT experience a plus. Demonstrated understanding of air emissions and emission reporting processes. Strong hands-on spreadsheet and database comprehension. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to succeed in a fast-paced consulting environment, handling multiple project assignments, meeting strict deadlines, and traveling to client facilities as needed. At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world 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 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 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. ERM Homepage