Versar

NEPA Specialist

Versar • $85K — $115K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in environmental planning, science, engineering, or related field.
  • Five or more years of experience in environmental planning with NEPA projects.
  • Experience with environmental assessments and supporting technical documents.
  • Familiarity with federal agency NEPA regulations and public involvement requirements.
  • Strong technical writing and communication skills, with proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications.

Responsibilities

  • Support NEPA reviews for proposed federal actions and associated documentation.
  • Assist in developing NEPA strategies, schedules, and compliance-tracking tools.
  • Prepare key environmental documentation sections, such as purpose and need statements and alternatives analyses.
  • Coordinate with specialists to integrate analyses of various environmental resources.
  • Draft public meeting materials and agency correspondence to engage stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options.
  • Travel opportunities to federal sites and project locations.
  • Exposure to diverse environmental planning projects across federal agencies.
  • Opportunity for training and professional development in environmental compliance.
  • Engagement in a collaborative work environment with interdisciplinary teams.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do

  • Support National Environmental Policy Act reviews for proposed federal actions, including environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, categorical exclusion documentation, supplemental analyses, and agency-specific environmental planning documents.
  • Assist federal customers and project managers in developing NEPA strategies, schedules, scopes, document outlines, data needs, and compliance-tracking tools.
  • Prepare and revise purpose and need statements, proposed action descriptions, alternatives analyses, affected-environment sections, environmental consequences, cumulative-effects analyses, mitigation measures, and supporting documentation.
  • Coordinate with technical specialists to obtain, review, and integrate analyses addressing resources such as air quality, water resources, wetlands, biological resources, cultural resources, land use, hazardous materials, noise, transportation, environmental justice, socioeconomics, climate, and infrastructure.
  • Support compliance and consultation activities associated with other applicable environmental and historic-preservation requirements under the direction of project leadership and qualified technical specialists.
  • Draft notices, scoping materials, public meeting content, agency correspondence, responses to comments, findings of no significant impact, records of decision, and administrative-record materials.
  • Organize and support technical workshops, public meetings, cooperating-agency meetings, tribal engagement activities, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Perform document reviews to verify clarity, consistency, technical support, source traceability, and alignment with customer procedures and project requirements.
  • Maintain comment, commitment, consultation, decision, schedule, and risk trackers and help organize complete and auditable project files and administrative records.
  • Coordinate day-to-day activities with federal program staff, engineers, scientists, planners, public-affairs personnel, contractors, regulators, state and local agencies, tribal representatives, and community stakeholders, as appropriate.
  • Support project management activities, including work planning, scheduling, budget tracking, action-item management, subcontractor coordination, quality control, and deliverable production.
  • Provide technical guidance to junior staff, support team integration of resource analyses, and contribute to consistent application of company and customer procedures.
  • Contribute to proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, schedules, cost estimates, technical approaches, past-performance descriptions, and client presentations for federal environmental planning opportunities.
  • Conduct site visits and field reviews at federal facilities, installations, and project locations while complying with applicable safety, security, and information-handling requirements.

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in environmental planning, environmental science, natural or cultural resources, public policy, geography, engineering, or related discipline.
  • Five or more years of progressively responsible environmental planning experience, including direct experience working on NEPA projects. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered when consistent with contract requirements.
  • Experience preparing or contributing to environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, categorical exclusion documentation, findings of no significant impact, records of decision, or supporting technical studies.
  • Experience supporting U.S. federal agencies, military departments, federal installations, infrastructure programs, or federally managed natural and built environments required.
  • Working knowledge of NEPA and experience applying federal agency NEPA regulations, procedures, guidance, and documentation practices.
  • Familiarity with related environmental review, permitting, natural resource or cultural resource consultation, and public-involvement requirements.
  • Ability to research, analyze, synthesize, and clearly document environmental information, assumptions, methods, limitations, impacts, and mitigation measures.
  • Experience coordinating inputs from interdisciplinary technical teams and integrating resource analyses into cohesive environmental documents.
  • Experience supporting agency coordination, public scoping, public meetings, stakeholder engagement, and responses to comments is preferred.
  • Ability to manage assigned scope, schedule, budget, quality, and action items across multiple concurrent tasks with limited supervision.
  • Strong technical writing, editing, organization, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate environmental information to technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications. Experience with document-management systems, comment-tracking tools, geographic information systems, data visualization, or project controls software is preferred.
  • Advanced degree or relevant professional certification in environmental planning, project management, public involvement, or a related discipline is preferred.
  • Ability to travel to federal customer sites and work in office, field, public-meeting, construction, industrial, or installation environments as required by the assignment.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain the federal background investigation, credential, site access, or security clearance required by the customer or contract.
  • Must be proficient in English, both written and verbal, to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
  • Successful completion of pre-employment screenings, including a federal background check, motor vehicle record review, and drug screening, as applicable to the position.
  • Compliance with the company drug and alcohol policy.
  • Authorization to work in the United States by the successful candidate's start date.

Compensation

Expected Salary: $85,000 - $115,000/year

Versar Global Solutions provides the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the Company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Location Requirements

The positions is flexible to remote, hybrid, or office locations. The employee may be required to work at Versar offices, federal customer locations, installations, project sites, or other approved facilities. Travel of up to 25% may be required.

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About Versar

Versar is an engineering and construction company that provides a range of services including environmental consulting, construction management, and munitions response services. The company was founded in 1969 and has since grown to have over 200 employees. Versar has worked on projects for the US government as well as private sector clients. The company has a focus on sustainability and has been involved in projects related to renewable energy and green building. Versar is headquartered in Springfield, Virginia.
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