APA Los Angeles provides this job bank as a free service. Please submit your job posting here. Submissions are subject to review for relevance to the planning community and will be published upon approval.
After you submit your job posting through the above form, consider browsing the APA Los Angeles resume book for potential hires. The resume book allows job-seeking planners to showcase their work histories and professional skills to prospective employers. If you would like to request access to the resume book, please contact [email protected].
Planner
STV / Los Angeles
Posted on: January 20, 2020
Application Deadline: Rolling
Job Description
STV is a leading, award-winning professional firm offering engineering, architectural, planning, environmental and construction management services. We consistently rank among the country’s top 25 firms in education, corrections, highways, bridges, rail and mass transit. Throughout the United States and in Canada, STV’s professional, technical and support personnel offer services to a broad and ever-expanding client base. We provide planning, environmental, design, program and construction management, and specialty services for the transportation, design-build, institutional and commercial building, advanced technology, industrial and defense markets.
For more than 50 years, STV has served the public transportation industry by attending to the needs of our clients and the traveling public. We look at transportation projects from the customer’s point of view. Our responsiveness has earned us the reputation as a leader in transportation systems and facility planning, design and construction management. We draw on years of experience—working for and with agencies—to develop fresh ideas and long-term maintainability. And we follow up with full services from offices across the country. We carefully shape each project from initial planning through final design.
We currently have an opening for a Planner for our Transportation and Infrastructure division. The position can be based in our Los Angeles, Irvine, Rancho Cucamonga, or Oakland CA offices.
Key responsibilities will include:
Serve as a Transportation Planner and/or Environmental Planner on multi-disciplinary transit and transportation projects.
Lead the preparation of feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, environmental technical reports and documents that comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Responsibilities would include limited field work, research, GIS analysis, developing graphics, presentations, technical writing, preparing alternatives analyses, environmental technical reports and chapters/sections of NEPA and CEQA compliance documents. The position will require coordination with and management of technical sub consultants. Management of scope, schedule, and budget for individual tasks and deliverables will also be required. Additional responsibilities would include proposal writing for future pursuits.
The position would also require interfacing with senior management, client representatives, engineers, architects, planners, public agencies, construction contractors, stakeholders and members of the general public.
The position would provide an immediate opportunity to work on some of the most transformative transit and transportation projects in California.
STV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Company practices and employment decisions, including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion and compensation, shall not be based on any person’s race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, creed, age, disability (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical), marital status, sexual orientation, or gender
Required Experience / Skills / Education
- Minimum of four (4) years of full-time professional experience with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) required
- Specifically, preparation of NEPA/CEQA environmental technical reports and documents required
- Experience preparing feasibility studies and alternatives analyses highly preferred
- Experience working on transit and transportation projects highly preferred
- Experience preparing and deploying Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plans/Programs (MMRPs) for active construction projects preferred
- Experience coordinating with and managing technical sub-consultants highly preferred
- Experience with technical writing and/or cost estimating for proposals highly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred. Degrees in Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Administration, Geography, Urban Planning, Architecture, Transportation Planning or related fields are preferred
- AICP, LEED AP, LEED GA, and/or ENV SP highly preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and ArcGIS required. Proficiency in Adobe Suite strongly preferred
Key Attributes:
- Self-starter
- Highly motivated
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Multi-tasking abilities
- Strong task management skills and experience
- Time and task management with multiple projects and deadlines running concurrently
Application Instructions
Apply on the STV website here: https://jobs.jobvite.com/stv/job/oJwWbfw6
