Senior Environmental Specialist

Position Purpose

As a Senior Environmental Specialist, you will act as environmental task lead or act as a project manager in completion of environmental services including environmental field studies, environmental assessments, and/or permitting to acquire environmental clearance for large KLJ client projects. In this role you will be intimately involved and knowledgeable regarding clients, industries and completion of work deliverables.

Essential Functions

• Conducts and/or leads teams in completion of field surveys and environmental planning work while acting as a task lead or project manager for large multi- discipline projects
• Assists project managers or serves as project manager; developing project scopes and budgets and ensuring scoped tasks are conducted within designated constraints
• Responsible for contracts, scope of services, schedules and budgets and ensures project delivery meets both KLJ customer and financial commitments
• Provides technical assistance to the business development team on proposals, contracts and development of scopes of work, schedules and budgets for projects
• Facilitates meetings with stakeholders and customers and coordinate with federal, state and local agencies to ensure environmental compliance
• Apply experience with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), land use permitting, and section 404/401 permitting to support a variety of high-level analysis and evaluations related to environmental due diligence, environmental compliance, and resource permitting for clients, preferably in the infrastructure market
• Understanding of federal, state, and local regulations including Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act/wetland regulations, and/or other environmental policies.
• Ensures compliance with KLJ safety and quality standards
• Utilize effective written and oral communication

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates an understanding of environmental tasks involving a high level of complexity
• Instructs, trains and mentors project team members
• Manage multiple disciplined project teams
• Provide direction, review, and support to the group by leading projects; assuring proper practices and techniques
• Serves as a resource to department/company colleagues related to knowledge of customers, markets and workload.
• Confer with project team members and clients to lead, prepare, and participate in project proposals and interviews
• Assist with and coordinate client management activities

Qualifications

Education:

• A four-year degree in Environmental studies or closely related field is required
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to operate motorized vehicles

Preferences:

• Project management experience is required
• GIS training is highly desired

Hours and Travel

This position requires the individual work 40+ hours per week with 95% of the time spent in the office and 5% in the field.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

The employee is regularly required to:

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly

The employee must:

• Be able to walk on uneven terrain up to ten miles per day
• Frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties

This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive or restrictive and other duties may be assigned. It is a description of the job as presently defined, and is subject at any time to revision. This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, as needed.

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