Job Description
Arcadis is seeking a Project NEPA Planner to join our growing Louisiana Mobility team based out of our Metairie or Baton Rouge office.
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
As a member of our Louisiana team, you will support LADOTD and municipal projects, including Public-Private Partnerships (P3) and Design-Build projects. This is a unique opportunity to manage the delivery of NEPA documents for complex transportation projects throughout the state. This position does not require staff supervision.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead and manage multi-firm, interdisciplinary environmental studies for infrastructure improvement and expansion projects.
- Prepare NEPA documents for minor programmatic Categorical Exclusions to complex Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements.
- Develop project scopes and budgets, interface with clients, mentor and develop junior staff, and develop and maintain project plans and schedules.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in planning, policy, a biological or physical science, or economics
- 8 or more years’ experience preparing NEPA documentation for federally funded infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of construction methods utilized for transportation projects and associated impacts to the natural and built environment.
Key Attributes
- Proven success in delivering minor to complex NEPA documentation for transportation projects.
- Excellent, clear, and concise, oral and written communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to coordinate meetings, resources, and presentations.
- Must work well in a collaborative environment.
- Fluency with MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10 or more years’ experience preparing NEPA documentation for federally funded infrastructure projects.
- Master’s degree and related project planning or niche discipline used in NEPA analysis.
- Experience preparing NEPA documentation for P3 and/or Design-Build transportation projects as the contractor’s representative.
- Working knowledge of LADOTD reporting procedures, construction plan review, and project development process (e.g., Stage 1 – Planning/Environmental)
- Experience managing technical studies completed under NEPA analysis.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $82400 – $123600.
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