Environmental Sciences & Planning Section Manager

The Environmental Sciences & Planning Section Manager will collaborate and provide technical expertise across HDR's three business groups (Transportation, Resources, and Water). This individual will work with senior management across HDR's three business groups to develop new opportunities, manage and deliver projects, develop staff, and respond to client needs. This is a seller/doer position and requires an individual with a strong character of self-motivation, technical capability, and team leadership.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include development and review of technical work products (environmental documents and technical studies) and project management. Technical work product includes, but is not limited to the management, preparation, planning, development, and/or analysis/review of technical studies and documentation that meet requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), federal and state permit applications.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires an individual with a strong character of self-motivation, technical capability, and team leadership. The successful candidate will be responsible for task management, staff management, and mentor junior and mid-level environmental planning staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Planning/Sciences, or closely related field
• At least 15 years of experience in environmental planning of which at least an aggregate of 10 years directly managing medium to large scale infrastructure improvement projects in Southern California
• Demonstrated knowledge of CEQA, NEPA, and regulatory permitting and other environmental processes in California is required
• Experience leading environmental tasks as part of other small, medium, and large/complex engineering and planning projects (Transportation, Resources, Water)
• Project Management experience including management of scope, schedule, and budgets.
• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and staff management skills with experience in managing staff at all levels
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Strong conceptual, planning, organizational, problem-solving and research skills.
• Self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement