Staff Environmental Planner - Environmental Services (Phoenix)
Burns & McDonnell's office in Phoenix, AZ, is actively seeking a Staff Environmental Planner to support projects for environmental surveys, NEPA analysis, and permitting services.
This position provides the opportunity to challenge and grow yourself professionally within one of the industry’s leading firms. Be on a team that solves our client’s issues and problems for environmental and engineering practices in the planning, permitting, design, and remediation service space.
The candidate should have an established and successful history executing tasks for both small and large-scale projects including but not limited to assisting with developing proposals and cost estimates, executing project tasks, and assisting with developing strategic plans. The Planner will support and manage the execution of environmental projects, be a subject matter expert, and be a technical lead/author on Environmental Planning. Areas to be covered include NEPA, resource impact assessment, and permitting. This includes managing permitting applications and analyzing environmental data supporting the development of environmental documents and studies for NEPA compliance for various types of projects, including high-voltage transmission line routing, renewables, power generation construction activities and upstream and midstream Oil and Gas.
The Environmental Planner will work within our Environmental Services (ENS) Global Practice to perform the following duties\:
Project management, team leadership, management & mentoring of junior staff.
Preparing studies, evaluations, NEPA, and state documentation for all types and sizes of environmental projects.
Ability to work independently and demonstrate a high level of competence in the area of technical report writing related to NEPA compliance as well as other types of technical reports and regulatory (Federal, State, local) permitting documents.
Experience with environmental compliance, permitting, and agency consultations.
Working with clients, resource agencies, environmental and technical staff to prepare environmental documents and related technical studies.
Develop, cultivate, and strengthen relationships with clients.
Assist with developing business for the Environmental Services Global Practice.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualified candidates will have experience in the following areas and with the following agencies\:
National Environmental Policy Act
State and Local Environmental Permitting
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and CWA Section 404 permitting
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and ESA compliance
U.S.F.S special use permitting and forest management plans
BLM right-of-way grants and resource management plans
BOR use authorizations