What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Environmental Planner position at STV?
STV is seeking a Senior Environmental Planner to support our Transportation & Infrastructure Division in Franklin, Tennessee. This role is ideal for an experienced environmental planning professional with deep expertise in NEPA and transportation planning who can lead technical work, support project and task management, and contribute to high-profile transit and transportation initiatives across Tennessee and the Southeast.
The Senior Environmental Planner will serve as a technical resource, mentor, and client-facing contributor—helping guide complex environmental documentation from planning through approval.
Key Responsibilities
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At STV, we are fully committed to expanding our culture of diversity and inclusion, one that will reflect the clients we serve and the communities we work in, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
STV offers the following benefits
The Senior Environmental Planner will serve as a technical resource, mentor, and client-facing contributor—helping guide complex environmental documentation from planning through approval.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and related federal and state environmental regulations
- Lead the preparation, review, authorship, and editing of NEPA documentation and Tennessee Environmental Evaluation Reports (TEERs)
- Support public involvement and outreach efforts, including public meetings, agency coordination, and stakeholder engagement
- Manage and support feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, FHWA Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) studies, and other transportation planning documents
- Support project and task management activities, including scope, schedule, and coordination with multidisciplinary teams
- Provide oversight and quality control for environmental documents to ensure compliance with agency requirements and accepted professional standards
- Support project quality initiatives, including quality management plan development and quality assurance reviews
- Assist project managers in ensuring environmental deliverables meet contractual, regulatory, and client expectations
- Collaborate with office and practice leadership to support client development, proposal efforts, and industry participation
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Planning, Environmental Science, Urban/Regional Planning, Geography, or a related discipline
- Minimum 7 years of environmental planning experience, with a strong focus on transportation projects
- Demonstrated expertise in NEPA documentation and environmental review processes
- Experience preparing and reviewing TEERs, CEs, EA/EIS documentation, and planning-level environmental studies
- Familiarity with FHWA, TDOT, and other state or federal transportation agencies
- Strong technical writing, editing, and document management skills, as well as being proficient in Word and Adobe or similar programs
- Proven ability to lead tasks
- Ability to mentor staff and collaborate across disciplines a plus
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At STV, we are fully committed to expanding our culture of diversity and inclusion, one that will reflect the clients we serve and the communities we work in, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
STV offers the following benefits
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
- Disability insurance
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (16 days)
- Paid Holidays (9 days)
- Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year)
- Parental Leave (up to 80 hours)
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships