Senior Environmental Planner

Overview

What’s the Opportunity? To act as a key member of project teams in developing and implementing environmental planning and permitting strategies for a variety of projects related to transportation and energy infrastructure siting, watershed and restoration planning, and redevelopment activities. You will help lead and oversee the development of technical studies and reports, environmental assessments and environmental impact statements, and permitting applications.

This role includes interacting with clients, agencies, and other consultant teams to advance development of projects across the country.

• Preparing and reviewing environmental impact analyses in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other similar state environmental review processes (such as the Washington State Environmental Policy Act [SEPA]), including serving in a key role on the project oversight team.
• Leading the development of permit application materials, by contributing to the compliance strategy, authoring materials, and coordinating with contributors as needed.
• Helping to interpret environmental regulations and regulatory agency requirements to author and oversee project deliverables.
• Interfacing with clients, agencies, and other consultant team members as needed, related to project strategies, technical approach, and implementation schedules.
• Helping to manage projects by contributing to the development and oversight of project scopes of work, budgets, and schedules.
• Meaningfully contributing to Anchor QEA’s pipeline by serving as a subject matter expert on proposals and fostering opportunities through existing client relationships, where applicable.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 8+ years of relevant experience, preferably including environmental consulting experience.
• Experience in developing environmental documentation related to:
• NEPA and/or SEPA or other similar state environmental review processes
• Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act
• Section 404 and 401 of the Clean Water Act
• Section 4(f) of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act
• Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
• Coastal Zone Management Act
• Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act
• Familiarity with state environmental regulations.
• Experience managing and overseeing deliverables, requiring leading smaller teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Able to effectively balance workload to accommodate project schedules and deliverables.
• Experience in leading proposals for competitive pursuits of new projects.

• Strategic, impact-focused role, shaping project approaches and outcomes.
• Highly supportive environment as part of multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams.
• Opportunities for client and agency interaction, helping to guide key decision makers.
• Contribution to business development strategies emphasizing valued relationships.
• Strong emphasis on professional development for technical and leadership growth.
• Culture of flexibility and accountability with an emphasis on work-life balance.

Anchor QEA provides environmental planning, science, and engineering consulting services with the mission of transforming our environment and communities with integrity and vibe. With more than 500 people in offices across the United States, our collective vision is to be an inclusive, sustainable, and growing environmental innovator making generational impacts. By embodying our core values, we strive to be our clients’ first choice for solving their most challenging problems and to be our employees’ reason to be excited about going to work each morning.

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