Project Environmental Scientist

GFT
is seeking a
Project Environmental Scientist to join our growing Environmental Practice! This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at either our Berkeley, CAor Roseville, CA offices.

GFT’s Environmental team delivers integrated planning, permitting, and compliance solutions that support infrastructure development across North America. With more than 140 professionals in 22 offices, the team guides clients through NEPA andpermittingprocesses, ecological and regulatory assessments, and environmental remediation efforts. Theirexpertisespans transportation, power, water, and facilities markets — working alongside agencies at federal, state, and local levels. From stream restoration to complex regulatory requirements and advance critical infrastructure projects.

What you’ll be challenged to do:

This is an excellent career opportunity for an experienced, motivated Project Environmental Scientist who is ready to take the next step in their career. We are looking for someone how combines strong technical permitting expertise – a professional that enjoys doing the work, working directly with clients and regulatory agencies and helping to building a growing environmental practice.

The successful candidate will have strong working knowledge of California and federal environmental permitting requirements, particularly as they apply to transportation, water and power projects. This individual will lead and prepare permit applications and technical documentation, coordinate with regulatory agencies, manage permitting assignments and support projects through planning and through design and construction.

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Lead and support natural resource analysis and environmental permitting for transportation, water, and other infrastructure projects throughout California.
• Develop permitting strategies and identify federal, state, and local regulatory requirements during project planning, CEQA/NEPA and design.
• Prepare and manage permit applications and supporting technical documentation, including Clean Water Act Sections 404 and 401, California Fish and Game Code Section 1600 Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreements, and other applicable federal, state, and local permits and approvals.
• Coordinate directly with regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries, and other agencies as appropriate.
• Conduct wetland delineations, jurisdictional assessments, biological field studies, and other technical investigations necessary to support project permitting as well as CEQA/NEPA analysis.
• Author and review technical reports, CEQA/NEPA analysis, permit applications, environmental commitments, mitigation plans, and related environmental deliverables.
• Work closely with engineering and design teams to identify natural resource and permitting constraints, develop practical avoidance and minimization measures, and incorporate environmental requirements into project design and construction.
• Support environmental compliance during construction, including implementation and tracking of permit conditions and mitigation commitments.
• Manage environmental permitting assignments, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, deliverables, and client communications.
• Contribute to and increasingly lead environmental components of proposals, interviews, scopes of work, and cost estimates.
• Contribute to the continued development of GFT’s California Environmental Practice.

What you will bring to our firm:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, biology, ecology, the physical sciences, or closely…