Your impact
Technical/Functional Responsibilities:
- Collects environmental, social and/or economic data to be used in developing alternatives to study under NEPA and in assessing impacts.
- Leads processes of scoping, 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).
- Provides quality control reviews.
- Performs various aspects of environmental planning assignments, applying knowledge of environmental planning principles. Works independently, participates in setting assignment objectives, schedules, budgets, and deadlines. Works 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.
Here's what you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in researching/writing NEPA documents, permitting, or similar.
- Experience with NEPA and regulatory permitting processes.
- Direct experience with associated environmental regulations/laws, regulatory and land management agency requirements, and experience working with local, state and federal agencies and public utilities.
- Excellent technical writing, organizational, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with fast-paced projects and formal quality control procedures.
- Understanding of and experience with environmental compliance processes for public infrastructure (transportation and water) projects.
- Knowledge of and experience with environmental requirements and processes of state and federal regulatory and land management agencies.
- Experience conducting research, preparing technical reports, synthesizing data, and preparing environmental documents.
- Experience interacting with clients to communicate findings and develop environmental process strategies. Experience representing clients on project teams and in agency-to-agency coordination.
- Experience in public and agency participation, meetings, and scoping processes.
- Experience in managing project budgets, coordinating accounting and invoicing activities, and monthly project status reviews.
Ideally, you'll also have:
- Experience working with the Colorado Department of Transportation (and other Departments of Transportation preferably located in the southwest); Central and Western Federal Lands Highway Divisions; and land management agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and other state and federal agencies.
- Extensive knowledge and experience working with one or more of the following environmental disciplines as part of a transportation or water project: air quality, water quality, floodplains, wetlands, land use, environmental justice, section 4(f)/6(f), noise, visual, hazardous materials, cultural resources, recreation, and other disciplines.
- Understanding and experience with business development, marketing, and sales within the transportation and water industries.
