As a Brownfield Redevelopment Site Manager, you own what happens on the ground at a contaminated-site cleanup — directing remediation crews, monitoring contractor work, signing off on field activities. The role tends to live in trailers and PPE.
Days often run out of a site trailer, with morning safety briefings, contractor coordination, and walks through active remediation work — excavations, soil hauling, groundwater treatment systems running. You're often the person taking calls from the agency inspector, the property owner, and the cleanup contractor simultaneously. Site logs, manifests, and daily reports are the measurable output.
The harder part is often what the soil reveals as you dig — perched groundwater, buried tanks, contaminated debris that wasn't in the Phase II. Schedules tend to flex around discovery. Employer variance can matter: at consulting firms you'll rotate between sites; at large developers or remediation contractors you may live on a single major cleanup for a year.
People who tend to thrive here are comfortable in steel-toed boots and comfortable with sudden changes of plan. Field judgment matters — knowing when to pause work for an agency call. The trade-off is outdoor work in all weather and the body cost of years on active sites. The wins are visible: clean fill in, future use locked in.
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View all Business Operations roles →As a Brownfield Redevelopment Site Manager, you own what happens on the ground at a contaminated-site cleanup — directing remediation crews, monitoring contractor work, signing off on field activities. The role tends to live in trailers and PPE.
Median pay for a Brownfield Redevelopment Site Manager is about $137K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $69K to $228K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Coordination, Critical Thinking, and Monitoring.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 4.5% through 2034, with roughly 630,980 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Site Director, Environmental Project Manager, and Environmental Program Manager.
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