Environmental Permitting Specialist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a mid-level Environmental Permitting Specialist to join our east coast Enviro Socio Permitting team. The successful candidate will support the development of desktop reviews and wetland/natural resources permit applications in New Jersey, New York State, New York City, and coordinate and lead field data collection and wetland/waterbody delineations and endangered species habitat assessments in support of permit applications and environmental compliance documents, and preparation of reports to document field data collection. This role will primarily support Arcadis' Enviro Socio Permitting team working with linear and other infrastructure and potentially renewable energy clients in New York, New Jersey, and New York City. Projects are often fast-paced, multi-faceted, and geographically diverse. The position will require a candidate to work both collaboratively with a team of resource specialists, planners, and engineers and have the capacity to balance varying priorities and tasks to work on multiple projects concurrently and meet deliverable deadlines. Arcadis offers a flexible working environment and follows a hybrid work structure. A successful candidate can expect to work remotely and/or from the office, as needed, based on demands of specific tasks and teams. 

As a Consultant with Arcadis, you'll soon discover you can make a difference in our company by collaborating with staff and contributing to an interesting array of projects. You will be a key member to drive innovation and build strong technical communities within the Enviro Socio Permitting practice. You will also work to closely with existing team members to support the growth of the Enviro Socio Permitting practice. Your career growth will only be limited by your skills and your passion for success!

Role accountabilities:

As a mid-level Environmental Permitting Specialist, you will apply your experience and technical knowledge to work with client teams to provide high quality deliverables to support planning and permitting for major utility, infrastructure, government and key Arcadis clients. You will be an important member of the east coast Enviro Socio Permitting team, who may also support the Water Resiliency group, interacting with junior level biologists/ecologists, engineers, senior technical experts, and project managers as part of an interdisciplinary team. 

Primary functions will include:

• Manage desktop environmental assessments using current assessment technologies and methods to identify potential permitting requirements and support development of permitting strategy to provide guidance to internal teams and clients.
• Use your strong technical writing and communications skills to develop technical reports, work plans, memoranda, and other environmental documents to support permitting. Likely to include the preparation of regulatory permit application, review requests, or other regulatory compliance packages (e.g., City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Clean Water Act Section 401, 402, 404, and Rivers and Harbors Act Sections 10 and 14).
• Provide task management to assist with the growth of new and existing client relationships through delivery of quality work and data.
• Support or lead agency consultations for threatened and endangered species, historic and cultural resources, and to develop permitting and survey strategies.

This role will be a hybrid work structure as discussed above; however, as needed, you may need to conduct field assessments related to ecological or general aspects of projects. This may require a working knowledge of GPS systems and the ability to walk and conduct fieldwork for long hours. This role may require the ability to travel.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, or Environmental or Land Use planning, or related field
• Five years of experience in the environmental or consulting field
• Relevant regional experience in preparing applications and obtaining permits a variety of departments in New York City, New York State, and New Jersey
• Experience with evaluating project compliance with state and federal laws and environmental and regulatory processes - federal, state, and local regulators such as USACE, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) as well as experience with New York City CEQR. 
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive reports/permit applications and particularly experience with linear projects (e.g., utility projects, pipeline projects, transportation projects, etc.). 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree and seven years of environmental consulting experience
• Experience preparing applications and obtaining permits from a variety of departments for projects in New York State

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 $70800 - $122130.

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