What We're Looking For
Are you a proactive and innovative environmental planner looking for a rewarding and challenging opportunity? We are seeking a dynamic Senior Environmental Planner to join our growing Minneapolis planning team. This role offers a unique chance to help shape a new planning group within HNTB. As a senior member of our team, you will have the opportunity to support innovative projects, mentor emerging talent, and contribute to sustainable development initiatives.
Our Minneapolis office offers an energetic, positive and inclusive workplace where employees feel valued and are mentored by industry leaders to become experts in their field. With our historic growth as a firm and the high energy of our Minneapolis office, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
As a Senior Environmental Planner, you'll provide crucial support from concept development through project completion. Your responsibilities will include researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and ensuring compliance with environmental laws and policies. In this position, you'll work closely with interdisciplinary teams and clients, creating and delivering engaging presentations and reports. You'll lead the technical production of planning assignments and teams, providing guidance and direction to early-career staff. Additionally, you'll coordinate and review technical work performed by other team members, ensuring high-quality project deliverables through rigorous quality assurance and control.
If you're ready to take on a senior role in a supportive and growth-oriented environment, we would love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do:
- Under minimal direction, performs a variety of more highly complex professional planning, environmental planning, landscape architecture and urban design project responsibilities, and leads technical tasks.
- Writes and/or reviews major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for projects. Coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.
- Leads, prepares, and reviews graphics, technical reports, work plans, scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to Request for Proposals for projects. Prepares and reviews budgets, invoicing, and billing.
- Leads public and stakeholder engagement and presents information to the community.
- Provides guidance and mentors staff.
- Leads coordination with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
- Recommends process and system improvements that result in greater efficiencies, enhanced capacities, and improved service delivery.
- Supports department managers and office leadership with strategic planning, staffing/training, and other special projects.
- May serve as project manager or task lead.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 10 years related experience, or
- Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Geography, or related field and 9 yrs of relevant experience
What You’ll Bring:
- Planning and Analysis: Extensive experience completing and overseeing NEPA and state equivalent documentation, feasibility studies, corridor studies, Planning and Environmental Linkages studies, or similar planning studies and associated analyses and technical reporting.
- Regulatory Compliance: In-depth knowledge of environmental laws, regulations, and policies and experience ensuring project compliance with NEPA, MEPA, Clean Water Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Endangered Species Act, and other pertinent requirements.
- Transportation Agency Experience: Experience working with and successfully managing planning and compliance activities for FHWA, FTA, or FAA and state DOTs or local transportation/transit agencies.
- Project/Task Management and Oversight: Experience managing and leading client meetings and preparation of meeting materials without oversight from others; overseeing the preparation of reports and providing consultation on structure and content, including conducting quality reviews; and presenting and defending reports to audiences.
- Client and Stakeholder Engagement:Strong skills in communication and collaborating with clients, communities, and other stakeholders, including creating and delivering presentations and reports and facilitating meetings/workshops to translate complex information to a wide variety of audiences.
- Strategic Advisor: Provides advice and guidance on research approaches, compliance pathways, evaluation methodologies, and conclusions to make recommendations to clients and less experienced staff.
What We Prefer:
- Master's degree in Planning, Biology, Environmental Science, Environmental Law or related field.
- 10-12 years of experience in the transportation industry.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.#AK
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Locations:
Minneapolis, MN
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