Air Quality Program Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your environmental expertise where your work will have a lasting institutional impact? Vanderbilt University's Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability (EHSS) team is seeking an experienced Air Quality Program Manager to lead a comprehensive environmental compliance program supporting one of the nation's premier research universities.

This is much more than a traditional air permitting position. As Vanderbilt continues to expand beyond Nashville, this role will help shape environmental compliance strategies supporting a growing national campus footprint, including locations in New York City, West Palm Beach, and San Francisco. You'll have the opportunity to influence programs that support world-class innovation, higher education, and institutional growth.

What You'll Do

As Vanderbilt's air quality subject matter expert, you'll lead and continuously improve programs involving:

• Title V air permitting and regulatory compliance
• Central utility plant and power generation emissions
• Asbestos management and contractor oversight
• Refrigerant management and regulatory compliance
• Greenhouse gas reporting and applicable environmental regulations
• Environmental risk management and strategic initiatives

You'll collaborate with university leadership, facilities professionals, researchers, sustainability partners, consultants, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance while helping build innovative, efficient environmental programs for the future.

Why Vanderbilt?

Make a broader impact.
Support one of America's leading research universities while helping protect the people and environments that make discovery possible.

Help build what's next.
This position offers the opportunity to shape environmental compliance programs across Vanderbilt's expanding national campus network—not simply maintain existing programs.

Work on meaningful challenges.
From utility plant emissions and Title V permitting to emerging greenhouse gas requirements and environmental risk management, you'll work on diverse, technically challenging projects that directly influence institutional success.

Join a collaborative team.
Our Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability team partners across the university to deliver exceptional service, practical solutions, and continuous improvement through innovation and data-driven decision-making.

We're Looking For an experienced environmental professional with expertise in air quality, Title V, asbestos, and/or greenhouse gas compliance and management. Individuals with advanced degrees and professional certifications such as CHMM, PE, CIH, CSP, Asbestos Inspector are preferred. This is a hybrid role requiring at least three days each week on main campus in Nashville, TN. Very competitive salary and sign-on bonus provided. If you enjoy solving complex environmental challenges, building collaborative relationships, and helping organizations improve environmental performance, we'd love to hear from you!