Senior CEQA/NEPA Project Manager

ESA seeks a highly motivated Senior CEQA/NEPA Project Manager to join us in Sacramento or the Bay Area. We are looking for a team member with ten (10) or more years of experience, who has the intellectual curiosity to lead a variety of analyses and evaluations related to the environmental review, permitting, and delivery of a wide range of transportation, ports, infrastructure, development, and planning projects throughout Northern California.

This is a mid-to-senior-level opportunity in our growing team of professionals focusing on surface transportation and port projects. This opportunity places a high value on collaboration, project delivery, leadership, and desire to grow.

*If this position interests you, please submit a cover letter with your resume when applying. *

Who You Are

An experienced Senior Environmental Planner and Project Manager with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in leading or directing the delivery of high-quality environmental analyses, including CEQA and NEPA documentation, environmental technical analyses, consultations, permits, and client deliverables primarily for public agency clients and the A&E firms that serve them. You have extensive knowledge of relevant regulatory and environmental regulations and processes in California, including the Caltrans Standard Environmental Reference (SER), Local Assistance Procedures Manual (LAPM), and Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM), as well as the regulatory and environmental guidelines of the various federal Department of Transportation administrations (FHWA, FTA, FRA, and MARAD).

You have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

You are a planner who has significant experience delivering environmental documents and acquiring permits for a variety of surface transportation, ports, and other infrastructure project types, such as Active Transportation, roadways/highways, bridges, interchanges, streetscape improvements, transit, rail (heavy and/or light), and other capital improvement projects. Additional experience with construction compliance and monitoring, and work on land use planning and development is helpful.

You are a proactive manager who utilizes your comprehensive knowledge of all phases of project planning and delivery to anticipate project and client needs, identify and communicate strategies for effective and efficient project delivery, and skillfully lead coordination among clients, teaming partners, and ESA’s team of technical specialists to complete high-quality, technically sound, and value-added deliverables.       

You are an accountable fiscal manager who actively monitors and manages project budgets and effectively works with ESA’s team of highly skilled Project Accountants, the project team, and clients to ensure delivery of work within approved budgets while maintaining project profitability.  

You are an effective team member and communicator who proactively identifies and contributes constructively to address broad project or team issues, providing mentoring and coaching to developing employee-owners to foster a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive team environment.

You possess excellent oral and presentation skills and have led and supported marketing and business development pursuits including leading proposals and supporting interviews, presentations, and developing capture strategies.

What You Will Do for ESA

As a mid-to-senior level Environmental Planner and Project Manager you will lead or direct multi-faceted environmental planning projects in collaboration with planners, scientists, engineers, cultural resources specialists, landscape architects, and other specialists on varying sizes and complexities of transportation and infrastructure projects.

You will apply project management principles and practices and be responsible for the development of environmental documents and approvals in accordance with applicable guidelines and requirements, while delivering assignments within budget and schedule.

Serve as a CEQA/NEPA specialist, preparing and managing environmental analyses and coordinating with key team members, including technical staff, subconsultants, teaming partners and clients. You will ensure production of technical work and written products that are clear, concise, and well‐supported, and which meet various applicable state, federal and local requirements.

Consistently demonstrate your solid writing skills, attentive listening skills, and participate in and/or lead client meetings, present at or provide support at community workshops and public hearings effectively presenting complex technical information clearly and concisely.

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