Senior Regulatory Waters Permitting Specialist

Senior Regulatory Waters Permitting Specialist

Apply for the senior regulatory waters permitting specialist role at Stantec.

Stantec’s Northern California Region (serving Northern California and parts of Nevada) is seeking a Senior Regulatory Waters Permitting Specialist with at least 10 years of experience leading and preparing environmental permits for State and Federal agencies within California. The position is based out of our San Francisco, Walnut Creek, Petaluma, or San Jose office. Stantec provides a flexible working arrangement including a hybrid model and a robust benefits package.

• Conduct completeness reviews of technical documentation and prepare impact analyses across a variety of natural resources and work to ensure the team and project efficiency and success.
• Lead, author, and assemble technical reports including writing narratives, providing code/policy conducting analysis, achieving analytical findings, producing exhibits, and providing potential recommendations. Assignments/projects are advanced in nature and require the application of experience and strategy.
• Interact and interface with environmental regulators and clients; proactively assess and resolve concerns.
• Responsible for independently planning, strategizing, implementing, and orchestrating the team to deliver complicated projects related to natural resources, wetlands, biophysical impact assessments, environmental assessments, and regulatory approvals.
• Manage tasks and projects according to approved scopes of work and deliver quality reports on schedule and within budget.
• Provide senior technical reviews relating to natural resource science and biology on multidisciplinary projects.
• Apply technical and business knowledge and methods to develop creative, effective, and economical solutions to address current and potential project issues.
• Assist in analyzing current and emerging technical issues, and implementing actions to proactively address market, business, regulatory, and/or economic issues.
• Champion Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work.
• Provide supervision, training, technical direction and mentoring to more junior staff.
• Contribute to and lead business development activities, including proposals, pre-qualifications, and relationship building with clients and prospective clients and industry colleagues.

• At least 10 years of experience successfully executing technical aspects of complex projects related to federal and state resources impact analysis and regulatory permitting in California.
• Skilled in communications and technical information exchange with clients, engineers and scientists, government regulators and agencies, and academia, as well as non-technical communication to the public.
• Demonstrated preparation, oversight, and negotiation of high-level permit applications with resources agencies including the USACE, EPA, CDFW, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Water Board, and California Coastal Commission.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CEQA and NEPA analyses.
• Demonstrated experience with development and implementation of water quality studies.
• Team oriented with strong capability to motivate others.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills (i.e., strong writer).
• Demonstrated experience with leading planning projects and ability to motivate self and others to overcome obstacles and achieve goals.
• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and to prioritize and balance sometimes heavy workloads to achieve goals while keeping up with a highly mobile and changing environment.
• Experience and ability in collaborative problem solving, with teammates, stakeholders, and clients.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work independently and successfully lead development of specialized resource documents.
• Experience with California state waters and federal waters permitting.
• Experience with California Coastal Commission and preferred.
• Excellent ability to facilitate decision making and issue resolution processes.

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