SWCA Environmental Consultants – Senior CEQA/NEPA Planner/ Project Manager

Overview

SWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking a highly experienced, self-directed Senior CEQA/NEPA Planner and Project Manager to expand our successful and well-established planning services within the Bay Area and Northern California. The ideal candidate will:

• Possess and cultivate strong existing client contacts in multiple business lines (g., energy and utilities, land development, transportation, water resources, and federal, state, and local agencies),
• Maintain a proven track record of creating and developing new business opportunities, and
• Manage large-scale and complex projects.

As a senior manager, you will:

• Develop and mentor staff to meet their career goals while balancing the need to meet SWCA’s financial targets,
• Directly contribute towards SWCA’s strategic growth goals, and
• Contribute to a professional working environment where people are inspired to bring their best work in order to foster the continued growth of SWCA

This is a regular, full-time, salaried position that is a career growth opportunity to join SWCA’s expanding California CEQA/NEPA Practice in Northern California. This position will be tied to SWCA’s Bay Area offices but can be located anywhere in Northern California.

SWCA’s Northern California operations offer a diverse environmental team and a variety of exciting projects throughout the state. We are looking to capitalize upon our Northern California CEQA/NEPA Planning Practice to expand on our existing services and work in tandem with our CEQA and NEPA experts across the region. This position has tremendous opportunity for growth, as it will directly contribute to growing our practice in the nation’s largest market for environmental services. This position is ideal for an experienced and ambitious individual who is looking to advance their career as both a CEQA/NEPA practitioner and as a manager/mentor to our staff.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Manage multidisciplinary projects and project teams of SWCA staff and sub-consultants with large and complex projects.
• Meet milestones within schedule and budgetary expectations and maintain accountability for quality assurance/quality control oversight of deliverables, including process improvement, standard operating procedures, data management and analysis, and reporting procedures.
• Encourage innovation in the program, develop new internal process improvements and technical approaches, and create a plan for their implementation.
• Prepare CEQA/NEPA scopes of work, schedules, and budgets and ensure that projects deliverables are technically sound, quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Provide strategic CEQA/NEPA regulatory support on multidisciplinary projects.
• Develop and execute client and public presentations to governmental agencies, boards, commissions, and stakeholders.
• Take initiative to resolve problems and identify improved procedures to assure client needs are met effectively.

Client Leadership

• Foster new client relationships and strengthen existing client relationships and conduct ongoing business development with clients.
• Lead and contribute to business development efforts in the Northern California, including client outreach, opportunity tracking, attendance at pre-bid meetings, preparation of proposals, and conducting interviews and presentations.
• Manage the performance of individual projects and effectively coordinate with clients and agencies to produce technically excellent work that is on time and on budget.
• Identify and evaluate changing market conditions and strategic sales opportunities (new clients and geographies).
• Lead proposal efforts and internal business development groups and take a lead role in the go/no go decisions in concert with the Planning Team Lead and Director.
• Develop deep and productive relationships within industry organizations and with agency staff to expand the regional client base, in line with the region’s strategic goals.
• Conduct business development, including client outreach, preparing proposals, and conducting interviews and presentations.
• Win, lead, plan, and manage multi-objective documents (both CEQA and NEPA) prepared for a variety of projects and environmental compliance projects throughout the region.

Organizational Leadership

• Work closely with other project managers and directors throughout the company to promote SWCA’s business interests in adherences to its mission, vision, and values.
• Direct, manage and mentor an internal team of SWCA staff with diverse levels of experience and expertise.
• Facilitate communication and collaborate within our regional environmental planning team, other discipline leaders, and corporate departments.
• Advise the Planning Team Lead and Director on staff hires, advancement, and course correction, as needed.
• Audit projects quarterly, identify and mitigate project challenges to avoid overruns and ensure profitability.

Contribute to expanding SWCA’s professional reputation in environmental consulting