Senior Environmental Planner

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $105k - $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

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GPA Consulting

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11 - 50 employees

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Environment • Government

GPA Consulting is a firm that provides quality, personalized, multi-disciplinary services to municipalities, private-sector clients, and state and federal agencies. The company specializes in environmental planning, historic preservation, and biology studies. GPA Consulting is dedicated to building long-lasting relationships with its clients and holds various certifications as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and a Women-Owned Business Enterprise, among others. The firm works closely with engineers, architects, developers, attorneys, local governments, and planners to deliver expert advice and comprehensive project support.

📋 Description

• Track project budgets and expenditures • Report to Principal on project schedule and budget • Prepare scopes, costs, and schedules • Coordinate and attend meetings with clients • Prepare meeting minutes, agendas, and progress reports • Prepare presentations for clients, public, and boards or commissions • Attend and represent GPA at professional conferences • Direct junior staff members and sub-consultants on projects where you are the Project Manager • Prepare, coordinate, review, and process comprehensive Environmental Documentation • Train project team on how to gather and research applicable project information and oversee the use of such information in the technical analysis and environmental documents • Independently write and compile comprehensive environmental documents and prepare or coordinate the development of the figures to be used in the documents • Prepare coastal permit applications • Oversee and coordinate the completion of technical analysis • Peer review team deliverables and provide feedback to project team members • Independently attend public meetings, project kick-off meetings, project development meetings, and interviews • Conduct necessary research and identify research needs • Perform and oversee fieldwork to collect data and verify existing design conditions, and to take field notes and photographs • Coordinate design with public agencies, engineers, and other members of the design team, as required • Coordinate resources with in-house staff and sub-consultants for timely project delivery • Some overnight travel may be required

🎯 Requirements

• Mastery of CEQA and NEPA compliance, and other federal and state legislation, policies, and procedures relating to the natural environment • Mastery of Caltrans and other public agency processes and documentation, as well as state and federal regulatory processes • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in environmental planning or a closely related field • 8-plus years of full-time professional experience in environmental planning • Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office) • Strong writing and analytical skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills including public speaking, good leadership, and project management skills, and must be detail oriented • Ability to handle multiple tasks, adapt to changes in priorities, and complete tasks or projects with others in a cooperative manner or independently as needed • A valid California driver’s license and automobile insurance • Must be able to multi task and work amid frequent interruptions • Ability to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and coordination including use of a computer keyboard; to conduct site visits outside, sometimes on uneven ground • Ability to: Analyze environmental situations accurately • Gather and analyze data; prepare written reports • Work effectively with others as an interdisciplinary team member • Conduct interviews for data gathering • Apply general techniques of insuring participation in the planning process • Coordinate environmental planning, research, and analysis of proposed projects • Make an assessment of an existing environment • Write environmental documents • Prepare and track project scopes and manage project schedules and deadlines • Plan and carry out complex environmental studies • Direct the work of others engaged in planning studies • Participate in public presentations • Solicit outside expertise on a short-term basis on specific environmental studies or phases of studies • Coordinate environmental investigations of proposed projects • Review and evaluate local plans in relation to statewide environmental interests • Incorporate the input of interested groups and agencies into the environmental planning and analysis process • Solicit necessary expertise to complete environmental studies or meet project goals