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