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If you're passionate about environmental management and sustainability, we'd love to hear from you. We are seeking a highly motivated Environmental Planner with strong communication skills to join our team.
Your Role: As an integral part of our Environmental Planning Team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that shape the future of our communities, infrastructure and ecosystems. Our reasonability to ensure that projects are developed in an environmentally responsible manner while balancing the need for economic development with the protection of natural resources and our communities
Essential Job Duties
Program Delivery:
- Provide professional service within the Environmental Department’s planning processes related to Port projects, initiatives, transactions, programs, and other work.
- Support development of requirements, schedules, budgets, and business cases reflective of environmental goals and Port policies and in accordance with established program protocols.
- Ensure consistent, thorough, high quality and defensible technical review is performed by relevant environmental Subject Matter Experts in a timely manner.
- Ensure that environmental input is documented, provided to the business, and successfully integrated, or that clear rationale is documented by the business.
- Continuously demonstrate a customer-oriented ethic and seek out opportunities to improve program tools and processes.
- May oversee work products of consultants or contingent workers.
- Function as an internal expert regarding relevant issues that affect Port business.
- Represent the Port on a broad range of related environmental issues both within and outside of the Port.
- In partnership with department management, provide support for the ongoing implementation of the Port’s Environmental Management System (EMS).
Minimum Qualifications
License and/or Certification:
- Maintain a valid state drivers' license required
- Ability to pass and maintain a Criminal History Records check and Security Threat Assessment required for a PDX Security Badge required
- Ability to obtain and maintain TWIC security badge
- Federal, state, and local environmental regulations, codes, rules, laws, guidance, and policy statements.
- Environmental planning project and process management principles.
- Environmental media areas.
- Tailor content to various audiences.
- Sustainability Rating Systems.
- Complex project and process management, including process mapping, budgets, schedules, scope, and personnel coordination.
- Use MS Office
- Apply a broad range of knowledge to the completion of varied, complex, and challenging assignments.
- Facilitate group discussions to reach agreements that balance competing business priorities.
- Resolve problems with minimal conflict and motivate colleagues to collaborate
- Multitask in a high energy environment.
- Proactively work through ambiguity.
- Orient, train and oversee performance of peers on support tasks.
Supplemental and Selection Information
SELECTION PROCESS (subject to change):
Selection Process (dates subject to change):
- A minimum qualification evaluation of education, training and experience of submitted application packets will take place by Human Resources the week of April 1, 2024.
- A Subject Matter Expert (SME) Panel will perform an evaluation of experience and training taken from your employment application materials including any responses to the supplemental questionnaire.
- Our goal is to schedule oral panel interviews with candidates that successfully passed the SME evaluation step approximately the week of April 15, 2024 with second-round panel interviews approximately the week of April 25, 2024.
About us:
At the Port of Portland, we use everything we have – our three airports, four marine terminals, five business parks, and all the resources, expertise, and experience behind them – to move with purpose, connecting people with powerful opportunities and creating value for our region. We know that every person we hire, business we work with, contract we sign and decision we make is a chance to make someone’s life better. And we’ll use our power and influence to pull down barriers, unlock new opportunities, ensure more people share in our region’s success and include those who have been excluded in the past. With YOUR help – together with our partners, customers, and community – we’ll help drive meaningful change!
Do you have questions about this job?
Contact us: careers@portofportland.com
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Diversity and Inclusion: At the Port, we don't just accept difference; we value and support it to create a culture of inclusiveness and fun. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
EEO/Affirmative Action Policy Statement: The Port of Portland is dedicated to maintaining and improving a work environment, which extends equal opportunity to all individuals, regardless of their race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or sexual orientation. Employment decisions shall be made in such a manner as to further the principle of equal employment opportunity and to comply with state, federal and local laws. We affirm through this policy statement our continuing commitment to the principles of nondiscrimination and affirmative action.
Veterans Preference: Under Oregon law, qualified veterans may be eligible for veterans preference when applying for Port of Portland positions. If you are a veteran and would like to be considered for a veterans preference for this job, please provide the qualifying documents as instructed during the application process.
Background Checks and Drug Testing: The Port of Portland will conduct background checks and/or drug tests for positions where such tests are required by regulation and for other safety-sensitive positions.
ADA Accommodation: Accommodations will be considered for applicants or candidates with a qualifying disability that prevents them from participating in this process. Accommodations will be made where the Port can reasonably do so without imposing an undue hardship on the business or compromising the integrity of the recruitment process. An applicant with any disability who believes that they need an accommodation should contact Human Resources: call 503-415-6690 or email careers@portofportland.com.
At the Port of Portland, we strive to offer a holistic and comprehensive benefits package for employees and their families. We care about your health by offering highly-subsidized healthcare plans that include alternative care. We look out for you and for family by paying for life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage. We participate in the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) retirement program. We provide access to additional coverage and benefits including pre-tax spending accounts, voluntary term life insurance, a deferred compensation plan, and critical illness and accident insurance policies.
We go above and beyond by offering an award-winning wellness program for all employees to engage in. Employees can tend to their physical and mental health, earn rewards, and create community. Our employee assistance program supports the Port’s commitment to emotional and mental well-being by providing mental health services, discounts on local gyms, and pet insurance for companions.
Our commitment to work-life balance ensures you have time to spend with loved ones and do the things you enjoy. We offer generous vacation time that accrues with length of service, sick leave that never expires and can be used for dependent care, health maintenance and mental health, and 8 weeks of paid parental leave – all in addition to 10 paid holidays. As an added bonus – because we know employees use their time off differently – once a year we give employees the opportunity to convert sick leave to personal leave, and to convert vacation leave to either cash, a retirement plan contribution, or a contribution to a Health Savings Account.
Please note: Some benefits vary by job type/group, so please be sure to review your comprehensive benefit guide and/or collective bargaining agreement upon hire to confirm what is available to you.
