Environmental Planner​/ Scientist

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee‑owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing environmental support from concept development through project completion including researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and applying environmental law and policy to ensure compliance on behalf of the client. This position collaborates and communicates with clients and the community, creating and delivering presentations and reports. May function as task lead with Project Manager oversight and provide technical guidance to early career staff.

• Analyzes the design plan and identifies deliverables.
• Compiles and analyzes data associated with multi‑disciplines and proposes technical solutions. Collects raw data, organizes, researches, and applies recognized tools of analysis to provide comprehensive review of the data.
• Prepares graphics, technical reports, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for planning projects.
• Assists in the creation of project presentation materials, concepts, graphics, and reports to the client and community groups.
• Coordinates and interfaces with other project team members during the course of a project.
• Coordinates with clients on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks and to perform quality checks to ensure client requirements are met.
• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation. Conducts public meetings/hearings/community workshops and interfaces with client groups and community stakeholders.
• May review budgets, invoicing, and billing.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, or related field and 4 years of relevant experience, or
• Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, or related field and 3 years of relevant experience

• Knows how to use Microsoft Project and client‑specific programs without guidance from others.
• Understands policies and procedures of the client processes (i.e., regulations, concept of final design, environmental procedure manual).
• Functions as the Task Lead for simple projects with the ability to contribute to writing scopes and budgets with Project Manager oversight.
• Gains an advanced understanding of environmental laws (i.e., CEQA, NEPA, local, state and federal) and ensures legal compliance. Applies knowledge to more complex documents, provides recommendations to clients, and ensures permits are completed, with oversight from more experienced staff.
• Contributes to scope of work, budget, and schedule as part of task expansion or new proposals with guidance from more experienced staff.
• Prepares environmental review documents for moderate and complex transportation projects. Functions as the Task Lead for environmental documents with oversight from more experienced staff.
• Experience in preparing Phase I ESA
• Experience in preparing air quality technical studies
• Experience in preparing GHG and Energy studies
• Noise impact analysis modeling
• Climate Vulnerability Assessments
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, or related field

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Locations:
Santa Ana, CA (Irvine)

The approximate pay range for Los Angeles Metro Area and Orange County, CA is $85,580.52 - $. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is…