Senior Analyst - Technical Project

Role Description

The Technical Project Analyst, National Reimbursement is a hands-on technical review and state team support role within the Material Services team responsible for evaluating the feasibility, eligibility, and strategic alignment of reimbursement-funded projects across California and emerging EPR states.

Reporting to the Technical Project Principal Analyst, this role supports state teams by reviewing proposed projects against applicable regulatory requirements, covered-cost criteria, operational realities, technical assumptions, and CAA’s strategic priorities to support defensible reimbursement recommendations.

The Analyst performs detailed technical assessments of funding requests, including:

• Reviewing project scopes
• Supporting documentation
• Cost assumptions
• Implementation plans
• Operational impacts
• Performance expectations
• Claimed alignment with regulatory and program requirements

The role helps determine whether proposed projects are practical, allowable, well-supported, feasible, and likely to advance CAA’s reimbursement, compliance, recycling, and circularity objectives.

The role collaborates with the Principal Analyst and internal teams such as:

• Legal
• State level operations teams
• Data & Analytics
• Materials Services
• Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
• Finance
• Other CAA functional teams

The Analyst prepares clear findings, questions, recommendations, and decision-support materials for review by the Technical Project Principal Analyst and other internal stakeholders. The Senior Analyst also supports the continued improvement of review procedures, application review tools, templates, and documentation practices by identifying recurring issues, gaps, and process improvement opportunities.

The position requires strong technical judgment, regulatory comprehension, analytical discipline, practical project review experience, and the ability to identify risks, gaps, unsupported assumptions, and opportunities to improve project value before reimbursement decisions are made.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in engineering, environmental science, environmental studies, public administration, economics, data analytics, project management, or a related field.
• Masters or advanced degree in engineering, environmental science, environmental studies, public administration, economics, data analytics, project management, or a related field preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in technical project review, infrastructure or operations assessment, recycling or solid waste programs, regulated funding programs, reimbursement review, project analysis, or similar fields.
• Experience evaluating project scopes, costs, feasibility, regulatory alignment, implementation plans, or technical documentation preferred.
• Experience with EPR programs, recycling systems, municipal operations, public-sector funding programs, regulated programs, or application-based reimbursement processes preferred.

Requirements

• Strong technical judgment and ability to assess project feasibility, implementation readiness, operational dependencies, and practical constraints.
• Ability to interpret regulatory, program, and reimbursement requirements and apply them to specific project facts and funding requests.
• Experience reviewing technical project scopes, cost assumptions, documentation packages, implementation plans, and performance expectations.
• Ability to identify unsupported assumptions, gaps, risks, inconsistencies, and potential misalignment with strategic or regulatory objectives.
• Strong analytical and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear findings, recommendations, questions, and decision-support materials.
• Attention to detail and commitment to documentation quality, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Ability to work with operational, financial, performance, and project data to evaluate reasonableness and supportability of funding requests.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with flexibility to pivot as needed.
• Familiarity with recycling operations, infrastructure projects, municipal programs, environmental policy, EPR programs, or regulated funding programs preferred.

Benefits

• Location: Remote from the United States of America, with some travel for meetings and interest holder interactions.
• Pay Rate: Based on a variety of factors in accordance with applicable law including the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge and experience.
• Reports To: Technical Project Principal Analyst