Env Planner

Env Planner

Hiring Range: $71797.00 to $116670.00

Full Time or Part Time:

Description for Candidates:

Ensure compliance with state and federal laws, regulations and policy for complex environmental programs and services. Maintain VDOT's compliance in all aspects of program and project delivery. Provide interpretation, analysis, and application as an environmental compliance subject-matter expert. Provide environmental leadership, technical guidance and assistance by assessing the applicability interdivisional meetings or contributing to interdivisional work products.

How you will contribute:

Assigned Programs:
Provides coordination and oversight of the assigned environmental programs. Ensures effective execution and continual compliance. Determines improvements and works to execute approved changes to benefit the agency.

Communication:
Responds to legislative, local government, citizen, consultant and other concerns with regard to VDOT's environmental compliance.

Document Preparation:
Coordinate with others to provide schedule and estimate of environmental deliverables, including NEPA and SERP documents to project manager. Ensure all project documentation and files are available electronically to support administrative records. Request schedule revisions for activities and maintain CEDAR project files. Advocate options to design engineers for avoidance and, or minimization and identify mitigation alternatives. Ensure document deliverables are reviewed for content and legal sufficiency per current Environmental Division policy before distribution.

Collect input and comment from other members of the environmental section and consolidate and deliver this input to project teams in written format or by presenting ument environmental reviews and clearances consistent with federal regulations and expectations.

Local Assistance Project Delivery Assistance:
Provide oversight and assistance to VDOT's Locally Administered Project (LAP) program. Attend meetings, compile and provide the Environmental Scoping Recommendations form, as well as other technical environmental guidance, to ensure applicant's regulatory compliance on Enhancement or Locally Administered Projects. Coordinate with staff developing LAPs, as well as VDOT SMEs and those engaged in current LAP policies to provide the most informed input to project development and delivery.

Other Deliverables:
Ensure deliverables are reviewed for content and legal sufficiency per current Division policy. Compile environmental commitments on project assignments in CEDAR, distributing them to other Divisions as appropriate. Manage time to accomplish work tasks and assignments within established deadlines.

Program Analysis:
Analyze proposed and existing environmental law, regulation, and guidance and determine its impact on VDOT operations facilitating VDOT compliance with law and regulation. Reviews and analyzes law, regulation, bills and proposed rules and determines impact on VDOT.

Statewide Projects:
Handles Divisional issues with statewide impact such as workload planning, General Assembly impact statements, audit coordination, special programs etc.

Technical Consultation:
Provides technical advisory subject matter expertise for assigned programs. May also develop and deliver training for assigned programs and projects to a variety of stakeholders.

Technical Guidance:
Provide professional technical expertise and guidance. Represent and coordinate written responses for internal coordination, communication with other VDOT districts or divisions. Notify other environmental areas of plan availability and need for written comments. Identify environmental risks to project development and strategies to minimize risk. Manage unplanned changes to project development. Manage studies in support of environmental documents. Coordinate plan submissions to ensure comments from previous submissions were addressed.

Research and review other environmental study related public relations and complaint responses. Ensure all complaint and inquiry responses are reviewed before distribution and maintain copies in master file.

What will make you successful:

Ability to analyze and…