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Senior Project Manager/Practice Builder - Environmental Planning

Kimley-Horn
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/18/2026
Overview

Kimley-Horn is seeking an Environmental Planning Practice Leader to join our office in San Jose, California (CA)!

Responsibilities

  • The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and create a vision for growth for an environmental planning practice in San Jose and surrounding communities.
  • Activities include business development, managing relationships with key clients, support and lead environmental planning projects, and lead and mentor planning team members.
  • Markets are not limited by geography but driven by relationships.
  • Leadership responsibilities include: operating with integrity and sound business principals, providing practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building and maintaining positive client relationships, open communication with partners and team, along with growing and directing an environmental planning practice.
  • Our Practice Leaders are given a great deal of autonomy to lead, direct, and grow their business.
  • With success, this individual will enjoy the rewards of a performance-based work environment that can advance to ownership.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree in a related field
  • 15 or more years of experience managing environmental projects in Northern California
  • Client contacts and relationships with local municipalities, county, regional and state agencies
  • Business development and marketing experience including experience writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgets for projected work
  • Strong background and experience in CEQA/NEPA
  • Experience leading, mentoring and managing staff in a positive manner
  • Ability to cross sell multiple disciplines

Base Salary Range

  • $180,000 - $260,000
  • Eligible for performance-based bonus compensation

Why Kimley-Horn?

At Kimley-Horn, we do things differently. People, clients, and employees are at the forefront of who we are. Clients know we prioritize achieving their goals and growing their success. Employees know our culture and approach to business are built on a desire to provide an environment for everyone to flourish. Our commitment to quality is only as good as the people behind it— that’s why we welcome and develop passionate, hardworking, and proactive employees. We take pride in how our employee retention, robust benefits package, and company values have led to Kimley-Horn’s placement on the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work” list for 19 years!

Key Benefits at Kimley-Horn

  • Exceptional Retirement Plan: 2-to1- company match on up to 4% of eligible compensation (salary bonus) and additional profit-sharing contribution.
  • Comprehensive Health Coverage: Low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Time Off: Personal leave, flexible scheduling, floating holidays, and half-day Fridays.
  • Financial Wellness: Student loan matching in our 401(k), and performance-based bonuses.
  • Professional Development: Tuition reimbursement and extensive internal training programs.
  • Family-Friendly Benefits: New Parent Leave, family building benefits, and childcare resources.

Salary : $180,000 - $260,000

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