Senior or Principal Environmental Planner

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is currently seeking a Senior or Principal Environmental Planner to join our Southern California Planning Group and broader Environmental Services Business Line. The Planning Group is comprised of environmental planners and scientists, regulatory specialists, and project managers providing environmental planning, permitting, environmental impact analysis, and permit condition/mitigation compliance services. The practice focuses on management of multi-agency jurisdictions involving diverse environmental resources constraints throughout all phases of a project life cycle. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of broad professional environmental experience and regulatory knowledge with an emphasis on environmental planning; project management and business development. 

Job responsibilities include leading a team of junior through senior-level planners, staff mentorship and training, workload balancing, coordination with other discipline teams and business operating units, leading and preparing proposals, environmental impact analysis documentation and related technical studies, discretionary permit applications, managing projects, and supervising staff. This position offers the selected individual the ability to apply their operational, technical, project management, and business development experience to a diverse range of projects and clients across California, as well as professional development opportunities within an established and rapidly growing consulting organization.

Your Key Responsibilities

The primary duties of this role are to:

• Manage and assist with technical delivery of environmental services related projects across a diverse range of market sectors that leads to an expected 60% direct utilization
• Primary point-of-contact for planning-related pursuits, inputs to operational and business planning efforts, conferences and training, hiring and resourcing needs
• Establish and maintain a peer network of planners that fosters an environment of shared learning, information sharing, and collaboration 
• Liaise with the Southern California and Northern California planning teams as well as other Environmental Services groups to identify and enhance regional business development opportunities, develop proposals, and facilitate cross selling of services 
• Track and manage the planning group’s overall utilization in collaboration with supervisors including identifying key leads and support staff for new pursuits and opportunities for workload balancing 
• Identify and coordinate planning staff participation in professional societies, conferences, and stakeholder events related to planning, technical delivery and marketing/business development responsibilities
• Support training and mentorship related to planning-related deliverables, technical standards and industry best practices in coordination with Stantec’s Technical Area Leader and National Technical Leadership
• Support the growth of the business center through strategic hiring, professional development, as well as employee engagement and retention strategies 
• Assist in the development, communication, and management of key performance indicators for team utilization, safety, and quality 
• Project management responsibilities include client interfacing, interdisciplinary coordination, oversight of safety requirements, subconsultant management, team coordination/meetings, delegation and oversight of technical tasks, preparation and quality review of deliverables, budget forecasting and monitoring, and invoicing
• Project management and technical delivery is expected to include discretionary environmental permitting, California Environmental Quality Act/National Environmental Policy Act documentation, environmental technical studies, similar regulatory compliance services, and representation at stakeholder meetings/public hearings
• Lead and support successful marketing and business development activities including opportunity identification, pre-positioning, preparation of proposals, interviews, and contracting
• Manage client services including routine correspondence/meetings, opportunity capitalization, negotiation of commercial terms, health and safety metric reporting, feedback solicitation, and advocacy facilitation
• Promote a strong health and safety culture