What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Planner position at Dewberry?
Job Description
Dewberry is currently seeking an Environmental Planner to join one of our Northeast offices. We are open to any of our offices in the Northeast. This is an excellent career opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented individual to join our team of outstanding professionals. The successful candidate will have technical, project management, and marketing responsibilities to lead environmental projects related to the transportation, resilience, urban development, and alternative energy industry. Personnel with a background in environmental planning for transportation, energy and resilience projects are highly encouraged to apply.
Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.
Responsibilities
The positions involve performing environmental impact studies including NEPA/SEQRA/CEQR, MEPA and CEPA documents and sustainability planning for energy, transportation, resilience and urban infrastructure projects.
Duties may include:
Conducting extensive research, data collection, analysis and the preparation of written technical documentation pertaining to land use, policy, demographics including Environmental Justice populations, hazard risk and vulnerability, transportation and transit, among others.
Required Skills & Required Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Planning, Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Cultural Resources, or a related field ; MS preferred
- Minimum 6 years of environmental and/or transportation planning experience.
- 3-5 years of NYC CEQR and ULURP experience desired
- Strong written and oral communication and data management/visualization skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus.
- Experience with GIS a plus
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.
*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.
Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.
#LI-LN1