Senior Environmental Planner

Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager

Work with people who do what they love and love where they do it!

GPA Consulting, a multidisciplinary firm that specializes in environmental planning, biology studies, and historic preservation, is looking for a qualified Senior Environmental Planner to join our diverse team of highly skilled professionals. If you are passionate about environmental planning, research, and analysis, and you share our determination to provide our clients with high-quality work, then we want to hear from you.

At GPA Consulting, we pride ourselves in providing high-quality professional services to public and private clients throughout California, while maintaining a friendly and flexible workplace environment.

What You’ll Do:

• 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…