This Opportunity
As a world-wide leader of environmental and transportation consulting and planning services, we invite you to be a part of that vision. Our Environmental Planning group in Atlanta, Georgia is looking for a Senior Environmental Planner to support and add to our wide and diverse range of environmental planning services that enables future-ready growth.
Your Impact
- Plan, organize, and execute a broad range of environmental planning projects.
- Lead a variety of planning studies related to environmental planning, including the Georgia Environmental Policy Act (GEPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Categorical Exclusion, Environmental Assessment, and Environmental Impact Statement documentation.
- Develop environmental planning documents including: purpose and need, alternatives analysis, community outreach materials, environmental technical reports and other analyses reports, permit applications, meeting summaries, and other analyses, reports, and memorandums.
- Serve as project manager, deputy project manager, and major task lead.
- Manage client relationships and lead business development activities.
- Mentor staff and review the work of staff.
- Coordinate with project managers, task managers, project team technical leads, subconsultants, and other disciplines such as planning, engineering, sustainability, and traffic team members.
- Manage time and effort effectively on multiple projects.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Planning, Urban Planning, Geography, or a related field (or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience working in the environmental planning field.
- Highly proficient expertise with environmental planning skills.
- Extensive knowledge of relevant environmental laws, permitting requirements, notification and compliance practices, and applicable Regional/State/Federal regulatory framework.
- Demonstrated technical competence leading environmental projects within business sector (e.g. commercial, infrastructure, transportation, energy, etc.).
- Advanced expertise with consulting practices, conducting NEPA analysis, and preparation of associated documentation.
- Experienced working on environmental planning projects, including the Georgia Environmental Policy Act (GEPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Categorical Exclusion, Environmental Assessment, and Environmental Impact Statement documentation.
- Ability to work independently and provide guidance, mentorship, and leadership to team or project members (including subconsultants), with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Experienced with providing critical review for documents and preparing technical deliverables with a high degree of complexity.
- Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
- Proficiency with technical and business writing, office automation, and communication software, technology, and tools.
- Extensive critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from data collation, and identify the most effective solutions to accomplish objectives of assigned projects.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change in a pressure work environment.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree is preferred.
- Essential professional licensure/certification.
- Active member of local, regional, or national professional organization.
- Experience in ESRI ArcGIS applications and tools.
- Experience with Adobe Illustrator and other vector graphics software. #LI-JA1
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