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Salary– DOE

Who You Are

You are an effective team member with at least 2 years of experience in relevant planning or environmental consulting environment. You have experience completing environmental assessment tasks for SEPA, NEPA, and environmental planning projects and/or you have experience in land use permitting or comprehensive planning. You have an understanding of policy planning, land use permitting, and environmental regulations and processes.

Your experiences are varied enough to enable you to be creative and nimble in solving tasks that are assigned to you. You are proactive and focused on meeting team, project, and client goals. You are excited and motivated by the prospect of working in a team environment and contributing to environmental clearance projects for both public agency and private development clients. You are interested in a range of tasks and find working on both small and large projects fulfilling.

You have been a contributing author of planning and/or environmental review documents, which could include: SEPA and NEPA documents, including Environmental Impact Statement sections, comprehensive plans, land development regulations, reports, technical memoranda, maps, working papers, resource-related permit applications, and client correspondence. You may also have experience with land use permitting including master use and building permits, grading and clearing permits, floodplain or conditional use permitting. You may also have experience with code analysis or code evaluation. You have strong writing skills, effective oral presentation skills, excellent listening skills, and the ability to present information understandably to clients, agency staff, teaming partners, and other project stakeholders.

You hold a Bachelor’s degree with major course work in urban planning, geography, environmental planning or studies, or public policy.

You are looking for the opportunity to work with a team of scientists, planners, archaeologists, biologists, and designers who share your passion for sustainability.  

What You Will Do for ESA

As an Environmental Planner, you may serve as Deputy Project Manager or Task Manager on projects of basic or moderate complexity. You will be responsible for coordinating the task or project delivery schedule, handling logistics, disseminating and maintaining related information and resources, assisting with budget tracking and invoicing, meeting with team members to gauge progress toward task completion, and responding to team member or client questions about assigned tasks or projects.

You will perform research and analysis in specific or general project areas, such as demographic information, zoning codes, adopted plans and policies, and other published information and performs field evaluations and assessments. You will apply critical thinking and problem-solving to evaluate, select, and adapt standard techniques and procedures in the development of environmental compliance and planning documents. You act as a contributing author for SEPA and NEPA documents for municipal and private development clients. You will perform a variety of land use permitting and code analysis tasks and assist with comprehensive planning documents and transportation-related projects.

You will be required to effectively communicate and collaborate with staff, clients, and teaming partners. 

You will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and be able to manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines while working on a team or independently.