As an Environmental Planning Manager with the Department of Transportation, you will help guide projects that affect the daily lives of residents across the region. This role supports strong environmental practices that keep transportation systems safe and sustainable. You will lead dedicated teams and work with partner agencies to meet important goals. Your leadership will help ensure that every project supports a healthier environment.
In this position, you will oversee districtwide environmental programs and ensures that transportation projects meet regulatory and policy standards. You will guide major planning and compliance work across multiple disciplines. As a Environmental Planning Manager, you will perform the following duties:
- Environmental Oversight: Manage district mitigation commitments and monitor activities after construction
- Compliance Programs: Develop and direct program requirements, including inventory, inspection, audits and training
- Policy Development: Establish and enforce district policies for storm water control measures and ensure proper design, maintenance and construction
- Document Review: Review and approve environmental documents and coordinate analyses prepared by consultants and staff
- Agency Coordination: Work with federal, state and local agencies on permitting, mitigation and environmental issues for transportation projects
- Committee Leadership: Lead district committees that oversee storm water management and aesthetic elements in transportation projects
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment
- Work hours are 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
- This position may be eligible for an Alternate Work Schedule.
- Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, up to 3 days per week. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Bridgeville. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time. Additional details may be provided during the interview.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
Organization or Location Restrictions:
- This posting is restricted to Department of Transportation, District 11 which includes Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence Counties, and Tunnel Maintenance employees only.
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
- Seven years of professional planning experience in local, regional, or state planning including two years in a supervisory capacity; or
- Two years of experience as an Environmental Planning Supervisor; or
- A Master's degree in planning or one of the environmental sciences and five years of professional planning experience, including two years in a supervisory capacity; or
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training.
Other Requirements:
- You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
This position is not subject to the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding.
You must be eligible for selection in accordance with merit system employment regulations.
Recruitment Methods
- Applicants must meet one of the following methods to be considered for this vacancy:
- Promotion Without Exam
- Reassignment(Only current civil service employees in the same agency who hold the same or similar job title, with the same maximum salary, within the same occupational group or where there is a logical career movement, will qualify for reassignment.)
- Voluntary Demotion
- Reinstatement(Former civil service employees may only be reinstated to the job title from which they resigned. Current civil service employees are not eligible through reinstatement.)
Promotion Without Examination (PWOE)
- Class Restrictions for Promotion Without Examination Only - You must have or have held regular civil service status in one of the following classifications:
- District Environmental Specialist, Transportation
- Environmental Planning Supervisor
- Employees who previously held regular civil service status in the job title of the position being filled are also eligible for promotion without examination.
- The promotion without examination requirements are issued in accordance with merit system employment regulations.
- Meritorious service is defined as (a) the absence of any discipline above the level of written reprimand during the 12 months preceding the closing date of the posting, and (b) the last regular or probationary performance evaluation showing an overall rating of satisfactory or higher.
- Applicants must have a minimum of one year in the next lower classes by the posting closing date with no break in service.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.