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Herrera Environmental Consultants Environmental Planner in Seattle, Washington
We are Herrera
Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world.
We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.
For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.
Our Values
- Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
- Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
- Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
- Research and outreach, learn and teach.
- Employee owners, employee leaders.
Your Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Environmental Planner to join our team. In this position, you will be responsible for leading environmental planning tasks and projects including Environmental Impact Statements, comprehensive plans, permitting, and more across a variety of areas including solid waste, transportation, and restoration. You will also be collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high quality deliverables and stellar client service.
In this role we will count on you to:
- Effectively communicate with staff, clients, and teaming partners and act as a trusted professional
- Prepare and manage NEPA and SEPA documents and supporting plans
- Apply critical thinking and problem-solving to develop environmental planning documents potentially including comprehensive plans, land use plans, and climate adaptation and resiliency plans
- Draft regulatory compliance reports and technical memos
- Support permitting efforts for natural resources and the built environment
- Assist in the development and refinement of proposals
- Research and apply jurisdictional requirements, codes, and policies
- Adhere to and drive QA/QC processes and programs
- Interface with clients, attend project and public meetings, and participate in interviews
- Develop community engagement plans
Other duties you will be responsible for:
- Partnering with internal experts in engineering, science, landscape architecture, data analysis, and GIS
Minimum Qualifications
Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications
- 8+ years of experience in environmental planning
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, environmental studies, urban planning, or similar area of focus
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Strong project management, business development, and analytical skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort speaking at public meetings and conveying complex information understandably to different audiences
Strong interpersonal and conflict-management skills
Creative and dogged approach to problem-solving
Impeccable follow-through
Ability to work independently and discern when collabo