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Environmental Planner
Environmental Science Associates / Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Camarillo, Pasadena, Santa Monica
Posted on: February 18, 2022
Application Deadline: Open until Filled
Job Description
Who We Are
ESA is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm delivering work that matters.
We plan, design, permit, mitigate, and restore—for projects across our communities, infrastructure systems, open spaces, and wildlands.
Our scientists, planners, historians, archaeologists, engineers, designers, and technical specialists provide critical thinking, in-depth analyses, and committed follow-through to guide successful policy development and project planning and deliver enduring multi-objective solutions.
At ESA, we believe every employee has a unique combination of knowledge, skills, and experience that contributes to our success.
We value diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that the collective sum of our individual differences and life experiences fosters our continued success and achievement for our employee-owners and our clients.
Collaborating with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions and opportunities for everyone. We celebrate the differences—age, color, physical ability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, language, national origin, race, religion, veteran status, and other characteristics—that make each of us unique.
What ESA Will Do for You
Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and Wild places.
At ESA, we spend our days helping to keep the environment in balance, and we want to help keep your life in balance too—by providing benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock ownership program, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.
No matter what stage you are at in your career, we provide opportunities for continued growth, development, and recognition. Whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners, we want to support you in reaching your career goals, and we believe these efforts will not only benefit you, but will also benefit all ESA colleagues and clients. Specific programs we offer include tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.
What’s Special About Our Community Development Team
Our Community Development team has built a legacy of success providing environmental compliance, clearance, and advancement. We combine our firm’s technical depth in natural resources science and environmental planning with deep knowledge of local regulatory practices and procedures, including the most current legislation and case law, to create value-added, cost-effective, and legally defensible solutions for our clients. ESA is unique in that we have a deep scientific, technical, and regulatory expertise, which we apply to our planning and environmental review projects. We keep project approval and implementation at the forefront, balancing long-term planning, community attributes, stakeholder objectives, and cost. In preparing these documents, our CEQA practitioners collaborate with our team of experts on biological resources and wetlands permitting; cultural resources and Assembly Bill 52 consultation; climate action and adaptation planning and design; acoustics and vibration; and aesthetics and visual resources analyses. Our focus is on comprehensiveness and clarity, and the result is that our CEQA, NEPA, and planning documents are frequently recognized by professional organizations with awards for creative approach and quality. We provide environmental review and permitting direction to public and private developers as well as agencies and non-governmental organizations seeking to implement open space, land management, and environmental restoration plans.
ESA’s San Diego and Los Angeles offices include planners, environmental scientists, biologists, natural resource land managers, archeologists, historians, air and noise specialists, and environmental hydrologists and engineers. While the office is made up of employees of a variety of backgrounds and career paths, the office shares a fun and caring office culture, complete with potlucks, lunch outings, and annual events, including camping trips.
We have worked on some exciting projects, including the Environmental Impact Report for the new Clippers Arena. To read about some more of the great projects ESA is working on in Southern California, check out these links: Ballona Wetlands Restoration, I-10 Corridor Project, Oceanside Local Coastal Program Update, Gateway Cities Climate Action Planning Framework, and West Basin Ocean Desalination.
In accordance with ESA’s duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation.
ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOE M/V/F/D)
Required Experience / Skills / Education
Who You Are
You are an effective team member at least 3 years of experience completing environmental assessment tasks for CEQA, NEPA, and environmental planning projects. You have an understanding of policy planning, land use permitting, and environmental regulations and processes.
Your experiences are varied enough to enable you to be creative and nimble in solving tasks that are assigned to you. You are proactive and focused on meeting team, project, and client goals. You are excited and motivated by the prospect of working in a team environment and contributing to environmental clearance projects for both public agency and private development clients. You are interested in a range of tasks and find working on both small and large projects fulfilling. You have a strong working knowledge of CEQA and NEPA.
You have been a contributing author of planning and/or environmental review documents, which could include: CEQA and NEPA documents, including Environmental Impact Report sections, comprehensive plans, land development regulations, reports, technical memoranda, maps, working papers, resource-related permit applications, and client correspondence. You have strong writing skills, effective oral presentation skills, excellent listening skills, and the ability to present information understandably to clients, agency staff, teaming partners, and other project stakeholders.
You hold a Bachelor’s degree with major course work in urban planning, geography, environmental planning or studies, or public policy.
You are looking for the opportunity to work with a team of scientists, planners, archaeologists, biologists, and designers who share your passion for sustainability.
What You Will Do for ESA
As an Environmental Planner, you will serve as task manager and contributing author for CEQA and NEPA documents for municipal and private development clients. You will be responsible for coordinating the task or project delivery schedule, handling logistics, disseminating and maintaining related information and resources, assisting with budget tracking and invoicing, meeting with team members to gauge progress toward task completion, and responding to team member or client questions about assigned tasks or projects.
You will apply critical thinking and problem-solving to evaluate, select, and adapt standard techniques and procedures in the development of environmental compliance and planning documents. You will be required to effectively communicate with staff, clients, and teaming partners.
Application Instructions
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*Please submit a writing sample with your application. The sample must be solely authored by you, or the sections you authored must be clearly marked. College papers may serve as writing samples, but professional technical documents are preferred. This can be uploaded in the cover letter submittal section.
