Senior Environmental Planner

Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager

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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 engaged in planning studies

Participate in public presentations

Solicit outside expertise on a short-term basis on specific environmental studies or phases of studies

Coordinate environmental investigations of proposed projects

Review and evaluate local plans in relation to statewide environmental interests

Incorporate the input of interested groups and agencies into the environmental planning and analysis process

Solicit necessary expertise to complete environmental studies or meet project goals

*We respectfully ask that you do not contact employees of GPA through social media. If you have a question about the position, you can call our main line and ask for the hiring manager: 310-792-2690.

*GPA Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate anyone based on race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. Further, GPA does not discriminate based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.