Environmental GIS Planner

Environmental GIS Planner – Herndon, Virginia

WSP is hiring an Environmental GIS Planner in our Herndon, Virginia office. The ideal candidate will have intermediate to advanced experience using ESRI GIS platforms to analyze, visualize, and report data for municipal and industrial stormwater, water/wastewater, or environmental programs, and planning experience in municipal stormwater management and flood resilience planning.

Experience in Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), watershed planning, green infrastructure, stormwater monitoring, dry weather outfall screening, and associated report development is a plus. Some travel and field work may be required, typically less than 10% of the time per year (usually in the mid-Atlantic US).

• Perform GIS mapping and analysis to support MS4 compliance and flood resilience analyses, plans, and reports.
• Collect GIS data for municipal infrastructure and capital projects through digitization of as-builts, imagery review, and field reconnaissance.
• Document GIS data and processes for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develop and implement ArcGIS Online applications.
• Translate broad planning or environmental questions into defensible GIS-based investigations and clearly communicate methods and findings.

• Collaborate with experts in planning, GIS, civil engineering, and ecological sciences to support clients/projects in community and watershed flood resilience planning, municipal stormwater quality and flood/drainage management, MS4 permit compliance and TMDL planning/accounting, and stormwater financing.
• Technical writing and review of SOPs, plans, reports, and manuals.
• Field monitoring and investigations including stormwater inspections, outfall screening, stormwater sampling, biological monitoring, and SWPPP inspections.

• BS in Planning, GIS and Spatial Data Science, Environmental Policy, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering or related field.
• 5-7 years of related knowledge and direct involvement in urban hydrology and water quality principles, municipal stormwater management (MS4 permits, TMDLs, flood mitigation, capital planning), technical writing and communication of technical subject matter to technical and layman audiences, ArcGIS Pro software for data management, spatial analysis, and creating maps for decision-making, developing and configuring ArcGIS Online feature services, web maps, web apps, Field Maps, Survey
  123, and Experience Builder, GIS data management and analysis with municipal and environmental data, managing, organizing, and presenting data in MS Excel, and QA/QC of large datasets.

• Experience in Python/Visual Basic programming.
• Automating GIS processes with Model Builder, arcpy, and script tools.
• Understanding of ESRI infrastructure (Enterprise, Desktop software, ArcGIS Online, Portal) and ArcGIS administration (user types and roles, licensing, permissions).
• Experience with reading land development construction drawings, as-built plans, and municipal infrastructure system maps.
• Experience with writing standard operating procedures, manuals, reports, plans.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.