Project Manager - Environmental Planning

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a New York City-based Project Manager to deliver and manage environmental review and permitting projects for public- and private-sector clients. 

This individual must possess a technical depth of experience in overseeing and performing activities related to the delivery of environmental review documentation related to local, state and federal regulations, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR).

This role can be based at any of our NYC or NJ offices. 

Role accountabilities:

• Serve as task lead/project manager for environmental review projects.
• Work with internal project leads and lead/review agency staff to establish environmental review strategies to reduce project risk and expedite schedule
• Collaborate with and oversee work performed by internal and external Environmental SMEs (Transportation, Air Quality, Noise, Ecological, Cultural, permits, etc.).
• Prepare technical analyses in accordance with CEQR Technical Manual requirements, and similar methodologies related to NEPA and SEQRA.
• Prepare technical scopes of work related to environmental tasks, projects, and proposals

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in planning, environmental science, or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience in preparing environmental review documentation, and related analyses, in accordance with CEQR Technical Manual requirements.
• Understanding of how various environmental disciplines including transportation, air quality, noise, ecology, and cultural resources interact with each other and proposed designs. 
• Interpersonal and client facing responsibilities will include excellent, clear and concise, oral and written communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to coordinate meetings, resources, and presentations.
• Proficiency in GIS, Adobe Illustrator, and Microsoft Excel.
• Proven success in delivering environmental review projects. 
• Process oriented mindset.
• Self-Driven and motivated to mitigate risk exposure and be proactive in the entire permitting process.
• Understanding of CEQR requirements and methodologies, and experience with CEQR projects.
• Familiarity with NEPA and SEQRA
• Must work well in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams consisting of environmental subject matter experts, designers, project managers and clients including public and private sector clients

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with CEQR lead/review agencies, including DCP, DEP, and NYCDOT.
• Experience with MTA and/or NYSDOT NEPA/SEQRA projects.
• AICP certification.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days of PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $118,000 - $158,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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