Senior Environmental Planner

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What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing environmental support from concept development through project completion including researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and applying environmental law and policy to ensure compliance on behalf of the client. This position collaborates and communicates with clients and the community, creating and delivering presentations and reports. May lead the technical production of planning assignments and teams or serve as a Project Manager on a limited basis for select projects. Mentors and provide direction to earlier career staff. May coordinate and review technical work performed by other project team members.

This position includes a mixture of office and field duties including but not limited to environmental and land use reviews for scoping and conceptual studies, NEPA documentation, NJ EO215 documentation, and environmental permit preparation.

What You’ll Do

• Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
• Leads client meetings, participates in client meetings and interactions.
• Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.
• Leads planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
• Prepares graphics, technical reports, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for planning projects.
• Creates project presentation materials, concepts, graphics, and reports to the client and community groups.
• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation. Conducts public meetings/hearings/community workshops and interfaces with client groups and community stakeholders.
• Coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
• Provides work direction and leads Planners and support staff on assigned projects.
• Coordinates the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to RFP’s for projects.
• Develops and maintains client meetings and interactions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering or related field and 8 years of relevant experience, or
• Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, or related field and 7 years of relevant experience
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proficient with Microsoft Project and leading client-specific programs, remaining current on updates.
• Drives the process and oversees the implementation of a project with updates to the schedule, budget, or deliverables for the programs. Remains knowledgeable about processes to guide others.
• Serves as the Task Lead for complex projects with the ability to write scopes and budgets.
• Develops an advanced understanding and ensures compliance with environmental laws (i.e., NEPA, local, state and federal). Supports the Project Manager, delegates work to staff, and ensures permits are completed. Oversees and reviews the work of less experienced staff.
• Completes the scope of work, budget, and schedule as part of task expansion or new proposals without guidance from others. Oversees the work of less experienced staff.
• Prepares environmental review documents for complex transportation projects. Serves as the Task Lead for environmental documents without guidance from others. Reviews and oversees the work of less experienced staff.
  
  

What We Prefer

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science or related field
• Experience with New Jersey Department of Transportation, New Jersey Turnpike Authority, New Jersey Transit, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and Amtrak projects.
• Experience with GPS/GIS mapping, data development & management, GIS/CADD integration and finished map production.
  
  

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Cherry Hill, NJ (Woodbury), Newark, NJ, Parsippany, NJ (Fairfield), Princeton, NJ

The approximate pay range for New Jersey is $105,590.66 - $180,168.68. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $95,991.51 - $187,675.71. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Planning Group

ReqID: R-29111

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