HNTB is looking for an experienced Planner for our New Orleans office! This opportunity entails being responsible for providing NEPA documentation and planning support from concept development through project completion including researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and applying environmental law and policy to ensure compliance on behalf of the client. Typical work tasks may include researching socioeconomic or environmental conditions data and trends, summari... more details
What We're Looking For
HNTB is looking for an experienced Planner for our New Orleans office!
This opportunity entails being responsible for providing NEPA documentation and planning support from concept development through project completion including researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and applying environmental law and policy to ensure compliance on behalf of the client. Typical work tasks may include researching socioeconomic or environmental conditions data and trends, summarizing existing research and academic literature, reviewing Federal, state, regional, and local planning and policy documents, drafting memorandums and presentations, developing geospatial maps and information, and contributing to technical deliverables.
This position collaborates and communicates with clients and the community, creating and delivering presentations and reports. May function as task lead with Project Manager oversight and provide technical guidance to early career staff.
Strong reading and writing skills are essential.
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.
What You’ll Do:
- Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.
- Identifies planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios, and perform project analysis.
- Investigates, evaluates, and provides recommendations on planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
- Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
- Participates in client meetings and interactions.
- Leads preparation of maps, exhibits, and presentation materials for projects.
- Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.
- Participates in the development of conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects
- Writes major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
- Participates in public process and stakeholder facilitation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 4 years related professional experience, or
- Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 3 years of relevant experience
What You’ll Bring:
- Proficient at using software specific to planning jobs. Aids Planners I and II in increasing their software proficiency.
- Analyzes data to provide findings and recommendations to more experienced staff to move the project forward and determine solutions. Provides direction on data resources to less experienced staff.
- Uses judgement to appropriately identify research tools and sources to conduct technical analysis and assess the findings with some oversight by more experienced staff.
- Drafts reports, including compiled materials from others, to create and substantiate findings. Contributes to presentations and may present findings to the team.
- Assists in preparing materials for client meetings by creating an agenda and organizing meeting materials. Attends client meetings and takes minutes.
- Understands NEPA policies and procedures of the client processes (i.e., FHWA, FTA, FRA, LADOTD, or other State DOTs)
- Functions as the Task Lead for simple projects with the ability to contribute to writing scopes and budgets with Project Manager oversight.
- Gains an advanced understanding of environmental laws (i.e., NEPA, local, state and federal) and ensures legal compliance. Applies knowledge to more complex documents, provides recommendations to clients, and ensures permits are completed, with oversight from more experienced staff.
- Contributes to scope of work, budget, and schedule as part of task expansion or new proposals with guidance from more experienced staff.
- Prepares environmental review documents for moderately complex transportation projects. Functions as the Task Lead for environmental documents with oversight from more experienced staff.
- Understanding of general transportation, community, or environmental policy issues.
- Ability to clearly synthesize information and research.
- Experience working in a professional setting to meet deadlines, expectations, and task assignments.
What We Prefer:
- Master’s Degree in Environmental Science, Urban & Regional Planning or related field
- American Institute of Certified Planner (AICP), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP)
- Proficiency in ArcGIS family of client, server and online geographic information system software.
Additional Information
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Baton Rouge, LA, New Orleans, LA
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