The Opportunity

As an environmental planner, you’ll prepare planning studies, technical reports, and/or NEPA documents on transportation and infrastructure projects. You will also conduct planning studies, corridor studies, and subarea planning studies for multimodal transportation projects for a variety of clients including municipalities, counties, MPOs, and DOTs

 The environmental planner reports to the environmental practice leader.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Support National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) projects, including CE, EA and EIS projects
• Lead tasks related to data collection, research, documentation, and technical analyses
• Assist with public outreach and stakeholder involvement related to planning and environmental studies
• Coordinate with business development and maintaining client relationships with internal and external clients.
• Assist with preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals, and technical responses to RFPs

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Required Credentials

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in environmental planning, urban planning, geography, environmental science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience.)
• Minimum of four years working in the environmental planning field, completing environmental surveys, fieldwork, habitat and construction support, impact assessments, and permitting
• Highly proficient analytical skills and prior experience with research techniques, local/regional ecology, habitats, and applicable regulatory zone
• Well-developed skills with consulting practices, conducting NEPA /other analysis and preparation of associated documentation.
• Proficiency in using discipline-specific software (i.e., ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch-Up)
• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May occasionally be exposed to work environments that include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.