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Role Description:
The Environmental Planner performs complex environmental planning, permitting, compliance, and lands management work supporting operational and Capital Improvement Program activities of the SFPUC Water Enterprise, including CEQA/NEPA environmental review, Chapter 31 implementation, resource-agency permitting, environmental construction compliance, professional-services administration, federal-land coordination, natural and cultural resources management, Tribal engagement, and strategic program development.
This position reports to the Senior Environmental Planner of the Moccasin Planning and Compliance Section and may supervise the work of professional services consultants and junior planning staff. This is an external-facing position that works closely with federal and state agency staff, City attorneys, Tribal representatives, and SFPUC multidisciplinary teams. The incumbent develops project descriptions; evaluates environmental impacts and mitigation measures; prepares, manages, and reviews technical studies and regulatory documentation; supports professional services contract administration; coordinates multidisciplinary project teams; and provides technical guidance regarding environmental review, permitting, and regulatory compliance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Analyzes proposed project activities to determine environmental review, documentation, consultation, and permitting requirements, identifies environmental and regulatory risks, and recommends avoidance measures, mitigation measures, and best management practices to minimize environmental impacts and regulatory risk.
Applies and interprets federal, state, and local laws, regulations, ordinances, permits, agreements, authorizations, and SFPUC policies, including the Raker Act.
Prepares or coordinates permit applications, right-of-way and special use authorization requests, and related submissions to local, state, and federal agencies.
Obtains authorizations under CWA §§401/404, NPDES §402, Fish & Game Code §§1602/1610, ESA/CESA, NHPA §106, ARPA, FLPMA, Raker Act, Wilderness Act, Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, and related federal/state authorities. Prepares, reviews, and coordinates CEQA, NEPA, NHPA, FLPMA, and related environmental review and compliance documentation.
Prepares and manages technical studies and reports concerning environmental, biological, cultural, land, and other natural resource matters.
Critically reviews and evaluates consultant work associated with planning, permitting, environmental review, technical studies, and compliance monitoring, and develops scopes of work and supports consultant contract administration, including schedules, budgets, deliverables, and fieldwork coordination.
Coordinates interdisciplinary review of project proposals, technical studies, and environmental documentation; performs environmental review of third-party applications for use of SFPUC lands.
Identifies environmental and regulatory risks, evaluates available information, and develops practical recommendations when requirements or project conditions are uncertain.
Represents SFPUC interests during interagency consultations, stakeholder meetings, public meetings, and field visits, and collaborates with multidisciplinary staff, consultants, regulatory personnel, Tribal representatives, and other parties.
Exercise sound and objective judgment, including when information is incomplete, requirements are uncertain, or competing priorities must be reconciled.
Manages competing priorities and communicates emerging issues, schedule risks, and recommended actions to project managers and supervisors.
Communicate complex legal, technical, and procedural information clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university AND four (4) years (8000 hours) of verifiable full-time equivalent experience either:
A. performing environmental review functions OR
B. in a city/regional/urban planning environment preparing documents for entities such as California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
OR
2. Master's degree from an accredited college or university in city/regional/urban planning, environmental studies, architecture, law, earth sciences, geography, economics, landscape architecture, civil engineering, urban studies or public administration AND two (2) years (4000 hours) of verifiable full-time equivalent experience either:
A. performing environmental review functions OR
B. in a city/regional/urban planning environment preparing documents for entities such as California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
AND
License: Possession of a current valid California Driver’s License.
Note: One (1) year of full-time employment is considered equivalent to two thousand (2,000) hours. Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.
Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.
Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring:
• Experience interpreting or working with federal land management and permitting instruments including rights-of-way, special use authorizations, permits, easements, agreements, maps, land records, or historical authorizations.
• Experience applying local, state, and federal environmental laws, regulations, and environmental review processes.
• Experience with cultural resources identification, preservation, protection, consultation, and management practices.
• Experience conducting environmental review and permitting for utility, infrastructure, operations, maintenance, or capital improvement activities.
• Experience using GIS, databases, document management systems, or other tools to organize and analyze environmental, geographic, or regulatory information.
• Experience developing scopes of work and supporting consultant contract administration, schedules, budgets, and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience coordinating with regulatory agencies, land management agencies, Tribal representatives, project managers, operations staff, consultants, attorneys, or other parties with differing responsibilities and perspectives.
Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.
Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications.
Verification: Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at How to Verify Education Requirements
Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.
All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.
Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.
Selection Procedures: After application submission, candidates deemed qualified must complete all subsequent steps to advance in this selection process, which includes the following:
Supplemental Questionnaire Examination (Weight: 100%): Candidates who meet minimum qualifications will be invited via a separate link to complete the Supplemental Questionnaire Examination. The purpose of the Supplemental Questionnaire Examination is to evaluate the experience, knowledge, skills and abilities that candidates possess in job-related areas, which have been identified as critical for this position and include, but are not limited to:
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