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.

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