Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager, Portland- Hybrid

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re focused on advancing our clients’ environmental stewardship and sustainability initiatives. We’re seeking a Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager to help lead siting, permitting, and licensing of critical infrastructure maintenance and replacement, renewable energy, and/or energy transformation projects. We support clients to adapt and thrive – both today and into tomorrow as the world changes and we face unprecedented challenges. Aligned to one of our Pacific Northwest offices, you’ll apply and grow your technical and management experience in leading environmental planning and compliance; natural and cultural resources; and executing permitting strategies. Your leadership will be key to realizing safer infrastructure operations, healthier communities, and protection of our world’s natural resources. No longer a secondary concern to human progress, environmental impacts now guide social and economic decisions around all horizontal and vertical infrastructure development.

As a Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager, you will lead environmental permitting and related efforts to support project development and meeting client objectives and project-specific internal financial goals. Your analytical and writing skills will be called upon as you lead development of quality client deliverables. Your project management or task leadership will include permit strategy and impact avoidance and minimization, preparing permit applications and environmental compliance documents, and client communication. You will provide motivation and direction to project teams while you in turn are partnered with experience project delivery leaders, technical leaders, and mentors to facilitate your project and career priorities. Our global team provides you with the tools to keep your career growing as well as those around you.

Key Responsibilities of this Position Include

• Serve as Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager in the successful planning and execution of primarily infrastructure development projects.
• Develop permitting strategies, provide regulatory guidance, and coordinate environmental resource surveys (biological, cultural) to document existing conditions and to identify sensitive resources on a project site
• Provide quality assurance reviews of technical documents
• Lead coordination with clients and regulatory agencies to discuss and negotiate project impacts, permitting requirements, and mitigation strategies
• Provide mentorship, growth, and direction to junior and mid-level staff, and aid in their career growth
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams to complete projects on time and on budget
  
  
  

Strategy And Business Development Responsibilities

• Work with Jacobs Client Account Managers and Operations on strategic pursuits, including proposals and business development
• Conduct business development activities through direct client contact
• Lead proposal and cost development activities for environmental tasks
  
  
  

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, environmental planning, or similar discipline
• 10 years of progressively responsible work history as a Project Manager, ideally with prior consulting experience
• Familiarity with federal, state, and local environmental and land use regulations and regulatory processes
• Familiarity with Pacific Northwest habitats and sensitive resources (special-status species, waters, wetlands, cultural resources), and associated permitting processes
• Experience leading/reviewing permitting efforts with agencies including but not limited to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL), Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and/or Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)
• Experience coordinating and managing teams of environmental professionals on a variety of projects at the same time.
• Ability to charter and lead a project or task team with a focus on client service and internal delivery goals
• Strong follow-through skills, attention to detail, and work quality.
• Experience implementing environmental permit requirements, construction monitoring oversight, and other services related to environmental compliance.
  
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Master’s degree or other graduate degree
• Experience in the environmental consulting industry with renewable energy, energy transmission and distribution, transportation, or other infrastructure development projects.
• Experience preparing and/or reviewing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and/or State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) document sections.
• Experience with Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) or Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) site certification processes.
• Experience with projects requiring railroad crossing permits, utility/municipal road right-of-way (ROW) permits, and/or Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) consultation.
• Experience leading a 1200-C construction stormwater permit or other stormwater compliance related tasks
• Experience with tribal coordination on projects.