Sustainability and Air Permitting Program Manager

Sustainability and Air Permitting Program Manager

Job Locations: US-CA-Santa Cruz | US-CA-San Carlos

ID: 2024-3448

Category: Air Operations

Type: Regular Full-Time

Joby Overview

Located in Northern California, the team at Joby Aviation is driven by our goal of creating an affordable, all-electric air transportation system. Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. Since 2009, our team has worked steadily to make this dream a reality. We’ve designed and tested many generations of prototype aircraft capable of serving in a network of electric air taxis. We’re looking for talented, committed individuals to join our team as we push onwards toward certifying the Joby aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration, scaling our manufacturing, and preparing to launch commercial service in 2025.

Overview

Guided by the principles of people, planet, profit, our Sustainability Team is building a world-class program to address climate change impacts, resource conservation, waste reduction, and environmental compliance within Joby Aviation. The team drives initiatives to ensure environmental compliance and environmental sustainability throughout the company. The primary focus of this role is air permitting for manufacturing processes, climate and energy strategy, and metrics results interpretation to evaluate program development and execution in alignment with regulatory requirements and company sustainability goals.

Joby Aviation is seeking a highly organized, passionate individual to work on the Sustainability Team in all aspects of work related to air permitting manufacturing and evolving environmental sustainability programs including energy consumption, resource consumption, carbon emissions, and ESG reporting. The role will require you to develop, implement, and maintain programs that ensure operational environmental compliance and company environmental impact. This person will work cross-functionally with other teams to identify sustainability opportunities to further our mission and execute programs that reduce our environmental impact, meet our external commitments on renewable electricity, and prepare Joby for the next phase of climate regulation. You will develop and track metrics and assist in defining sustainability goals. Additional responsibilities include environmental analysis related to value chain, product life cycle, and compliance for production facilities and any other duties as deemed necessary by the Sustainability Lead.

Strong analytical and communication skills are imperative, and you must have knowledge of key sustainability initiatives such as the air permit requirements for Bay Area Air Quality District (BAAQMD) and Monterey Bay Air Resources District (MBARD), renewable electricity procurement, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, TCFD, GRI, and CDP.

You will report directly to Joby’s Sustainability Lead and work across the team. This role is based out of San Carlos, Marina, or Santa Cruz CA.

Responsibilities

Air Permitting/Environmental Compliance

• Ensure compliance with current federal, state, and local air permitting requirements including maintaining current air permit requirements, log management, and inspections.
• Where possible, identify opportunities to refine current permits as manufacturing volume increases.
• Work with Facilities and OEM teams to permit new sources.
• Partner with Environmental Health and Safety team to establish Environmental Management System including implementation of an EHS software, as it relates to air permits.
• Manage Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Large Spark-Ignition (LSI) Fleet Emissions Reporting, and Diesel Off-Road Fleet Emission Reporting to the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Climate Management

• Develop collaborative relationships with all team members to assess all operations for energy consumption, carbon emissions, recycling, waste disposal, resource consumption, and ways to reduce Joby’s environmental impact.
• Conduct annual greenhouse gas inventory and establish a larger climate strategy including how to manage and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
• Advance Joby’s climate program including roadmap development for upcoming regulations, Scope 3 emissions, and climate risk scenario analysis (TCFD).
• Streamline internal data gathering process and documentation.

Energy Management

• Develop energy management strategy including energy efficiency measures and renewable energy procurement approach for Joby’s renewable electricity commitments for manufacturing and Joby-operated vertiports including on-site solar, commercial agreements, and power purchase agreements.
• Work with external teams (commercial agreements, utilities) and internal teams (facilities, legal, finance) to procure renewable electricity in the most cost-effective approach.
• Work with the manufacturing teams to identify opportunities to green operations.

Reporting

• Review, synthesize, and explain complex technical data related to environmental compliance and performance metrics.
• Manage the environmental section of Joby’s annual Impact Report and partner with the team for GRI and TCFD alignment.
• Partner with Sustainability Lead to conduct climate risk scenario analysis and create a roadmap for climate disclosure requirements.
• Establish a company-wide dashboard for energy and GHG reporting.

Required

• 4+ years relevant experience with a proven track record in sustainability programs and environmental compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience with air permitting new sources and maintaining compliance with federal, state, and local requirements including Title V facilities. Experience with California air regulations.
• Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Comfortable with data analysis in Excel and PowerBI.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven track record of program management - managing, organizing, and driving deliverables of complex projects.
• Passion for Joby's mission and ability to thrive under pressure in an unstructured, fast-paced environment.

Desired

• Bachelor's degree ideally of science, engineering, or finance. Advanced degree preferred (MS, MPA, MEng).
• Establishing, maintaining, and fostering cross-functional relationships at all levels.
• Experience integrating sustainability with business, strategy, and finance with climate and renewable electricity programs.
• Previous experience in manufacturing.

EEO

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $85,000 - $140,000/yr. The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

Joby is an Equal Opportunity Employer.