Hiring Range: $74006.00 to $120260.00
Full Time or Part Time: Full_Time
Description for Candidates:
1. Assist with planning and directing district environmental functions to include supervision and coordination of specific environmental programmatic areas. Provide daily oversight and assistance to staff and on-call consultants. Support compliance efforts by ensuring VDOT avoid, minimize, or mitigate negative environmental impacts and adhere to federal, state, and local environmental laws, regulations and policies.
How you will contribute:
2. Oversee Consultant Work: Oversee On-call Consultant Contracts Involving NEPA and Permit-Related Deliverables. Prepare Gatekeeper and other consultant service request forms. Manage project work plan, cost control and schedule to achieve on-time, on-budget completion of consultant deliverables. Identify risks to the development of deliverables and strategies to minimize risk. Manage unplanned changes to scope of work. Support consultant procurement and ensure consultant-prepared environmental documents and technical studies are QA and QC reviewed for acceptance prior to invoice processing. Ensure consultant scopes of work are adequately reviewed and negotiated, consultant evaluations are completed and verified for payment.
3. Senior Environmental Lead: Provide recommendations and solutions to procedural, policy, or contractual matters related to environmental. Develop and promote sound environmental principles in VDOT's business processes. Collaborate with stakeholders to realize shared values for environmental stewardship and compliance. Facilitate resolution of complex environmental issues and ensure follow-through and closure on solutions. Mentor staff to identify least environmentally damaging solutions. Provide assistance and input during the annual budget preparation cycle.
4. Senior Project Manager of Non: VDOT Administered and Alternative Project Delivery Projects: Provide environmental oversight to projects administered outside VDOT (e.g. LAP, PPTA, and design-build). Review PPTA and design build proposals, products and contracts and comments on the development of environmental components for project agreements, contracts and technical requirements. Ensure contract conditions are in VDOT's best interests and conduct QA-QC reviews of environmental documents and technical studies for acceptance. Review locally administered project agreements and products and provide comments and recommendations. Ensure environmental scoping recommendations form is compiled for each enhancement or locally-administered project. Provide support to Environmental Division on PPTA and design and build projects consistent with VDOT's schedule.
5. Technical Expert on Environmental Programs: Oversee daily operations, e.g. verifications and approvals, in absence of district environmental manager. Provide direction and delegate work assignments to staff and oversee daily work activities. Ensure quality assurance of environmental work deliverables and provide support to meet project deliverables and due dates. Secure permits, write environmental documents, prepare risk assessments, environmental certification, etc. to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget. Participate in district meetings to support project delivery.
6. Use CEDAR to Manage Workflow: Measure accomplishments and update project files as required. Use iPM, Dashboard, and Cardinal to plan and manage project staffing and workloads.
What will make you successful:
7. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with diverse audiences, give effective presentations and to facilitate meetings.
8. Ability to review and critique plans, contracts, special provisions and specifications.
9. Considerable knowledge of the laws, regulations, policies, procedures, programs and practices in environmental management and engineering.
10. Knowledge of scheduling and budgeting principles and practices, financial resources allocation and technical data management.
11. Knowledge of supervisory and human resources practices and principles to include hiring, discipline, performance management and employee development.
12. Skill in gathering and analyzing data to make environmental recommendations and prepare reports.
13. Skill in the use of computers and software applications.
Minimum Qualifications:
14. Ability in workload planning and scheduling; budgeting and financial resource allocations and technical data management.
15. Ability to obtain and maintain required certifications.
16. Ability to review, critique and interpret plans, contracts, special provisions and specifications.
17. Ability to supervise the work of others and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
18. Ability to use of computers and software applications.
19. Knowledge of environmental laws, regulations, policies, procedures, programs and practices.
20. Skill in gathering and analyzing data to make environmental recommendations.
Additional Considerations:
21. A combination of training, experience, or education in Environmental Studies, Sciences or related field desired.
22. DEQ Dual Inspector (DI) or Responsible Land Disturber (RLD) certification.
23. DEQ: Inspector for Erosion Sediment Control (ESC IN)
24. Experience managing multiple environmental programs.
25. Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
26. Progressively responsible experience managing staff performing environmental functions and overseeing multiple environmental programs.
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Physical Requirements
VDOT employees must abide by VDOTs Code of Ethics and the Commonwealths Standards of Conduct.