Environmental Planner jobs at Jacobs in United States, Denver

As a key member of our support team, you’ll be interacting with engineering and construction to understand and communicate issues and conflicts that impact Program schedules. You will also analyze CPM schedules and recommend work-arounds and schedule improvements.

At Jacobs, you'll work for a company that strives to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow, and thrive. Get ready to move into a progressive career that will have you working with our technically diverse and growing team. As a Senior Environmental Planner, you’ll use your skills and experience to support regulatory compliance, permitting and environmental documentation at the Federal, state, and local levels primarily in Colorado and other Western states. You’ll support a variety of transportation (including transit and trails), water, renewable energy, and utility projects. As a Senior Environmental Planner with us, you’ll have the opportunity to play a role in all stages of the environmental planning process, including performing alternatives analyses, researching, and writing technical reports for NEPA and SEPA documents, preparing permit applications, and participating in public involvement processes. This career path provides the opportunity to work on varying assignments that require high organization, attention to detail, excellent writing skills, practical experience, and working knowledge of NEPA, SEPA and other relevant environmental regulations. You will have opportunities to contribute, grow and learn while serving as a key member within the Mountain West Central department, consisting of highly skilled environmental engineers, planners, landscape architects, arborists, architectural historians, archaeologists, biologists, and environmental compliance professionals.

Technical/Functional Responsibilities:

• Collect environmental, social and/or economic data to be used in developing alternatives to study under NEPA and in assessing impacts.
• Lead processes of scoping, developing purpose and need, developing alternatives and preparing documents in compliance with NEPA.
• Prepare and/or contribute to NEPA documents, including Categorical Exclusions (CEs), Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs).
• Provide quality control reviews.
• Perform various aspects of environmental planning assignments, applying knowledge of environmental planning principles. Work independently, participate in setting assignment objectives, schedules, budgets, and deadlines. Work collaboratively with other team members.
• May provide technical guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Collaborative team approach internally and externally; contact with clients and public and regulatory agencies.

You will utilize your engineering background and creativity to address prevalent stormwater, tank, and wastewater compliance issues. You will help advance the industry by delivering sustainable solutions for clients and connect with Jacobs’ practitioners to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions. We will lean on you to lead design, engineering, and project tasks, delegate work, and collaborate with engineers and design practitioners of varying experience levels. You will also mentor junior practitioners and learn from senior practitioners to grow professionally. We will rely on you to develop and maintain strong client relationships to drive business through proposals, networking, and sole source opportunities.

As an Environmental Planner based out of Denver, Colorado you’ll have the opportunity to use your specialized in-depth knowledge and play a role in all stages of performing alternative analyses and play a role in public involvement for a variety of transportation, water and utility projects for a diverse public and private client base. You’ll work independently to solve a range of complex problems as you grow your career. You’ll use best practices of NEPA and other environmental regulations to prepare well written environmental documentation for our clients. You’ll also research and prepare technical reports for NEPA documents, prepare permit applications as well as coordinate regulatory permitting issues with internal and regulatory agency staff.

Technical/Functional Responsibilities:

• Collects environmental, social and/or economic data to be used in developing alternatives to study under NEPA and in assessing impacts.
• Supports scoping activities, developing purpose and need, developing alternatives and preparing documents in compliance with NEPA.
• Prepares and/or contributes to NEPA documents, including Categorical Exclusions (CEs), Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs).
• Performs various aspects of environmental planning assignments, applying knowledge of environmental planning principles.
• Collaborative team approach internally and externally; contact with clients and public and regulatory agencies.

The duties of this role include:

• Project/task management, interagency/interdisciplinary coordination, regulatory and permit compliance, business development, and opportunities to build a team and mentor staff.
• Must be able to work closely with a diverse team to provide proactive and collaborative solutions for various public and private sector clients, and would leverage Jacobs’ team of project managers, planners, biologists, environmental scientists and environmental engineers in the pursuit and delivery of opportunities throughout the western U.S.