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HNTB Senior Natural Resources and Resiliency Specialist in New York, New York
What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
HNTB is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to join our growing Environmental, Climate Resilience and Sustainability team as part of the NY Planning & Mobility department. This opportunity involves leading natural resource planning tasks including surveys, investigations, and assessments; performing analyses; preparing and reviewing technical documents and permits to ensure regulatory compliance; identify potential problem areas and issues; and contribute to developing appropriate mitigation. This position will be responsible for leading the preparation of the following:
Essential Fish Habitat Assessments
ESA Section 7 Consultation
Biological Assessments and Survey
Wetland Delineation
NY State Environmental Permitting including :
Protection of Waters Permits
Coastal Erosion Management Permits
Freshwater Wetland Permits
Tidal Wetland Permits
State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES)
Stormwater permitting
Federal Permitting including for Clean Water Act, Section 402, Section 404 and Section 401 program
The ideal candidate will also have the flexibility and interest in supporting our growing climate resilience and sustainability portfolio by leading or contributing to vulnerability assessments, stormwater management, or other strategies to address the challenges posed by climate change.
What You'll Do:
Under minimal direction, leads the collection and analyzing of data obtained for projects.
Determines or develops best methodology and technical approaches for conducting analysis in field work; sets up test equipment as necessary to obtain scientific data.
Examines and evaluates present and future potential environmental science effects relating to the planning, design, and construction of proposed projects.
Serves as task lead or principal author in the preparation of reports, on environmental science effects of projects.
Provides technical scientific support on environmental issues to project managers during the planning, design or construction of projects.
Performs review of work to ensure the design or construction are in compliance with design criteria and scientific specifications and determines the need for additional investigations, studies, or alternate plans or designs if necessary.
Prioritizes and participates the marketing and proposal preparation of potential opportunities or projects.
Leads the preparation of applications and supporting documents for local, state, and federal environmental permits as well as other regulatory compliance laws and regulations.
Organizes and participates in public meetings. Attends various meetings with clients, other engineering firms, and staff and may lead discussion on environmental science issues.
Mentors junior staff, provides recruiting recommendations and performance feedback.
Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
Bachelor's degree in Geology, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Archeology, Anthropology, or related field and 8 years relevant experience, or
Master's Degree in Geology, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Archeology, Anthropology, or related field and 7 years of relevant experience
What You'll Bring:
Experience with state and local permitting, including NYSDEC, NYSDOS and NYCDEP.
Experience with federal environmental permitting, including USACE and USCG.
Excellent project management skills.
Highly collaborative, positive and proactive communication skills
Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Experience balancing multiple projects, responsibilities and competing deadlines.
Provides technical oversight and guidance in the development of new ideas, data, and methodologies and how to apply it to techniques more broadly.
Develops the standards of practice for the team by presenting new methods and approaches to scientific and environmental analysis for application to the project.
Leads marketing and proposal efforts (i.e., may serve as pursuit champion or oversee production and review of proposals).
Review monitoring protocols to ensure compliance with design criteria, scientific specifications, and regulatory approvals/permits.
Serves as senior reviewer of technical reports in their entirety, providing guidance to less experienced staff.
Serves as a recognized expert in established analytical methods with extensive experience in their application.
What We Prefer:
Additional regional compliance and permitting experience including New Jersey and Connecticut.
Experience in resiliency assessments.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
New York, NY
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The approximate pay range for New York is $91,366.10 - $178,632.44. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.
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Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Planning Group
ReqID: R-22463