Environmental Science Associates
Senior CEQA/NEPA Project Manager
Environmental Science Associates, Sacramento, California, United States, 95828
ESA
seeks a
highly motivated Senior CEQA/NEPA Project Manager
to join us in
Sacramento or the Bay Area . We are looking for a team member with
ten (10) or more years of experience , who has the intellectual curiosity to lead a variety of analyses and evaluations related to the environmental review, permitting, and delivery of a wide range of transportation, ports, infrastructure, development, and planning projects throughout Northern California.
This is a mid-to-senior-level opportunity in our growing team of
professionals focusing on surface transportation and port projects . This opportunity places a high value on
collaboration , project
delivery ,
leadership , and
desire to grow .
Who You Are
An experienced Senior Environmental Planner and Project Manager with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in leading or directing the delivery of high-quality environmental analyses, including CEQA and NEPA documentation, environmental technical analyses, consultations, permits, and client deliverables primarily for public agency clients and the A&E firms that serve them. You have extensive knowledge of relevant regulatory and environmental regulations and processes in California, including the Caltrans Standard Environmental Reference (SER), Local Assistance Procedures Manual (LAPM), and Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM), as well as the regulatory and environmental guidelines of the various federal Department of Transportation administrations (FHWA, FTA, FRA, and MARAD).
You have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
You are a planner who has significant experience delivering environmental documents and acquiring permits for a variety of surface transportation, ports, and other infrastructure project types, such as Active Transportation, roadways/highways, bridges, interchanges, streetscape improvements, transit, rail (heavy and/or light), and other capital improvement projects. Additional experience with construction compliance and monitoring, and work on land use planning and development is helpful.
You are a proactive manager who utilizes your comprehensive knowledge of all phases of project planning and delivery to anticipate project and client needs, identify and communicate strategies for effective and efficient project delivery, and skillfully lead coordination among clients, teaming partners, and ESA's team of technical specialists to complete high-quality, technically sound, and value-added deliverables.
You are an accountable fiscal manager who actively monitors and manages project budgets and effectively works with ESA's team of highly skilled Project Accountants, the project team, and clients to ensure delivery of work within approved budgets while maintaining project profitability.
You are an effective team member and communicator who proactively identifies and contributes constructively to address broad project or team issues, providing mentoring and coaching to developing employee-owners to foster a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive team environment.
You possess excellent oral and presentation skills and have led and supported marketing and business development pursuits including leading proposals and supporting interviews, presentations, and developing capture strategies.
What You Will Do for ESA
As a mid-to-senior level Environmental Planner and Project Manager you will lead or direct multi-faceted environmental planning projects in collaboration with planners, scientists, engineers, cultural resources specialists, landscape architects, and other specialists on varying sizes and complexities of transportation and infrastructure projects.
You will apply project management principles and practices and be responsible for the development of environmental documents and approvals in accordance with applicable guidelines and requirements, while delivering assignments within budget and schedule.
Serve as a CEQA/NEPA specialist, preparing and managing environmental analyses and coordinating with key team members, including technical staff, subconsultants, teaming partners and clients. You will ensure production of technical work and written products that are clear, concise, and well-supported, and which meet various applicable state, federal and local requirements.
Consistently demonstrate your solid writing skills, attentive listening skills, and participate in and/or lead client meetings, present at or provide support at community workshops and public hearings effectively presenting complex technical information clearly and concisely.
Lead the preparation of proposals for small- to mid-sized projects and assist with proposals for larger projects, providing technical input, leading or contributing to proposal writing, identifying opportunities, and engaging with proposal/interview teams. These efforts will include having the responsibility for preparing scopes of work and budgets. You may also lead or support marketing and business development pursuits including developing capture strategies.
Provide mentorship and support for developing employee-owners, including reviewing their work for accuracy and clarity and providing constructive feedback and career development guidance while working on projects together. Foster an inclusive team environment where all employee-owners are valued, respected, and are enabled to work at their highest level.
You will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and be able to manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines, while working on a team or independently.
What ESA Will Do for You
Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals knowing that you have contributed to outstanding projects, improved environmental stewardship, and advanced a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.
At ESA, we spend our days helping to keep the environment in balance, and we want to help keep your life in balance, too by providing medical, dental & vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), a 401(k) plan with company match, a performance bonus program, an employee stock ownership program, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays to name a few.
At every stage in your career, we provide opportunities for continued education, growth, development, and recognition. Whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners, we want to support you in reaching your career goals. We believe these efforts will not only benefit you, but all ESA colleagues and clients. Specific programs include Tuition Reimbursement, Professional Development Bonuses, and attendance at Conferences.
What's Special About Our Surface Transportation and Ports Team
ESA recognizes the critical importance that a well-planned and maintained transportation system has in the prosperity of our communities and our nation, as well as how transportation infrastructure and systems affect individuals' daily lives. As the U.S. and the state of California focus on developing and maintaining a transportation network that provides safe, equitable, efficient, and sustainable movement of people and goods, ESA is strategically increasing our participation in surface transportation and ports projects to meet the demand for project delivery driven by historic levels of investment at the federal, state, and regional levels.
As our participation in this market continues to increase, our need for skilled and enthusiastic project managers, planners, scientists, and technical specialists with knowledge of the special requirements particular to surface transportation and ports projects continues to grow. Our small-but-mighty group of focused transportation and ports professionals is on a growth trajectory. If you wish to be part of this growth from the ground floor, this position is for you.
ESA has established multiple pay ranges tailored to the economic factors in the geographies in which ESA staff reside. For this position, the range is approximately as listed based on our anticipated hiring locations as noted in the above job details. Actual compensation is determined by several factors including but not limited to an individual's related experience, education, skills, and the city in which the applicant lives.
CA Pay Transparency Clause
$118,884
—
$145,303 USD
Who We Are
We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients.
In accordance with ESA's duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation in states which this applies.
ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOEM/V/F/D)
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seeks a
highly motivated Senior CEQA/NEPA Project Manager
to join us in
Sacramento or the Bay Area . We are looking for a team member with
ten (10) or more years of experience , who has the intellectual curiosity to lead a variety of analyses and evaluations related to the environmental review, permitting, and delivery of a wide range of transportation, ports, infrastructure, development, and planning projects throughout Northern California.
This is a mid-to-senior-level opportunity in our growing team of
professionals focusing on surface transportation and port projects . This opportunity places a high value on
collaboration , project
delivery ,
leadership , and
desire to grow .
Who You Are
An experienced Senior Environmental Planner and Project Manager with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in leading or directing the delivery of high-quality environmental analyses, including CEQA and NEPA documentation, environmental technical analyses, consultations, permits, and client deliverables primarily for public agency clients and the A&E firms that serve them. You have extensive knowledge of relevant regulatory and environmental regulations and processes in California, including the Caltrans Standard Environmental Reference (SER), Local Assistance Procedures Manual (LAPM), and Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM), as well as the regulatory and environmental guidelines of the various federal Department of Transportation administrations (FHWA, FTA, FRA, and MARAD).
You have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
You are a planner who has significant experience delivering environmental documents and acquiring permits for a variety of surface transportation, ports, and other infrastructure project types, such as Active Transportation, roadways/highways, bridges, interchanges, streetscape improvements, transit, rail (heavy and/or light), and other capital improvement projects. Additional experience with construction compliance and monitoring, and work on land use planning and development is helpful.
You are a proactive manager who utilizes your comprehensive knowledge of all phases of project planning and delivery to anticipate project and client needs, identify and communicate strategies for effective and efficient project delivery, and skillfully lead coordination among clients, teaming partners, and ESA's team of technical specialists to complete high-quality, technically sound, and value-added deliverables.
You are an accountable fiscal manager who actively monitors and manages project budgets and effectively works with ESA's team of highly skilled Project Accountants, the project team, and clients to ensure delivery of work within approved budgets while maintaining project profitability.
You are an effective team member and communicator who proactively identifies and contributes constructively to address broad project or team issues, providing mentoring and coaching to developing employee-owners to foster a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive team environment.
You possess excellent oral and presentation skills and have led and supported marketing and business development pursuits including leading proposals and supporting interviews, presentations, and developing capture strategies.
What You Will Do for ESA
As a mid-to-senior level Environmental Planner and Project Manager you will lead or direct multi-faceted environmental planning projects in collaboration with planners, scientists, engineers, cultural resources specialists, landscape architects, and other specialists on varying sizes and complexities of transportation and infrastructure projects.
You will apply project management principles and practices and be responsible for the development of environmental documents and approvals in accordance with applicable guidelines and requirements, while delivering assignments within budget and schedule.
Serve as a CEQA/NEPA specialist, preparing and managing environmental analyses and coordinating with key team members, including technical staff, subconsultants, teaming partners and clients. You will ensure production of technical work and written products that are clear, concise, and well-supported, and which meet various applicable state, federal and local requirements.
Consistently demonstrate your solid writing skills, attentive listening skills, and participate in and/or lead client meetings, present at or provide support at community workshops and public hearings effectively presenting complex technical information clearly and concisely.
Lead the preparation of proposals for small- to mid-sized projects and assist with proposals for larger projects, providing technical input, leading or contributing to proposal writing, identifying opportunities, and engaging with proposal/interview teams. These efforts will include having the responsibility for preparing scopes of work and budgets. You may also lead or support marketing and business development pursuits including developing capture strategies.
Provide mentorship and support for developing employee-owners, including reviewing their work for accuracy and clarity and providing constructive feedback and career development guidance while working on projects together. Foster an inclusive team environment where all employee-owners are valued, respected, and are enabled to work at their highest level.
You will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and be able to manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines, while working on a team or independently.
What ESA Will Do for You
Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals knowing that you have contributed to outstanding projects, improved environmental stewardship, and advanced a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.
At ESA, we spend our days helping to keep the environment in balance, and we want to help keep your life in balance, too by providing medical, dental & vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), a 401(k) plan with company match, a performance bonus program, an employee stock ownership program, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays to name a few.
At every stage in your career, we provide opportunities for continued education, growth, development, and recognition. Whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners, we want to support you in reaching your career goals. We believe these efforts will not only benefit you, but all ESA colleagues and clients. Specific programs include Tuition Reimbursement, Professional Development Bonuses, and attendance at Conferences.
What's Special About Our Surface Transportation and Ports Team
ESA recognizes the critical importance that a well-planned and maintained transportation system has in the prosperity of our communities and our nation, as well as how transportation infrastructure and systems affect individuals' daily lives. As the U.S. and the state of California focus on developing and maintaining a transportation network that provides safe, equitable, efficient, and sustainable movement of people and goods, ESA is strategically increasing our participation in surface transportation and ports projects to meet the demand for project delivery driven by historic levels of investment at the federal, state, and regional levels.
As our participation in this market continues to increase, our need for skilled and enthusiastic project managers, planners, scientists, and technical specialists with knowledge of the special requirements particular to surface transportation and ports projects continues to grow. Our small-but-mighty group of focused transportation and ports professionals is on a growth trajectory. If you wish to be part of this growth from the ground floor, this position is for you.
ESA has established multiple pay ranges tailored to the economic factors in the geographies in which ESA staff reside. For this position, the range is approximately as listed based on our anticipated hiring locations as noted in the above job details. Actual compensation is determined by several factors including but not limited to an individual's related experience, education, skills, and the city in which the applicant lives.
CA Pay Transparency Clause
$118,884
—
$145,303 USD
Who We Are
We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients.
In accordance with ESA's duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation in states which this applies.
ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOEM/V/F/D)
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