Senior NEPA Specialist / Project Manager

VERSAR; United States; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Versar Global Solutions seeks a senior environmental planning professional to lead NEPA reviews for federal actions, guiding complex analyses and public involvement across the life cycle of projects. You will advise on strategy, scope, and scheduling while coordinating with agencies, tribes, and stakeholders to produce compliant, defensible documents.

You will mentor teams, manage budgets and risk, and ensure quality in environmental assessments, impact statements, and related studies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental planning or related field is required.
• Ten or more years of environmental planning and NEPA experience.
• Experience preparing NEPA documents and managing technical studies.
• Ability to coordinate with federal agencies, regulators, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead NEPA reviews for federal actions, including EAs, EISs, and related documents.
• Advise on NEPA strategy, scope, schedule, and compliance requirements.
• Develop purpose and need statements, alternatives analyses, and mitigation plans.
• Manage interdisciplinary studies across air, water, wetlands, and cultural resources.
• Coordinate with agencies, counsel, and stakeholders and prepare records of decision.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Project leadership

Technical writing

Communication skills

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental planning

Tools

Microsoft 365

Document management systems

Comment-tracking tools

GIS

Data visualization

Project controls

Job description

Who We Are

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Versar Global Solutions provides full mission lifecycle solutions for challenges faced by our government and commercial customers in the natural, built, and digital environments. With team members located around the world and a rich legacy spanning more than 50 years, Versar Global Solutions delivers planning, analysis, risk management, project and program management, operations and maintenance, and information technology solutions for environmental management and remediation, mission-critical facilities and installations, readiness, and contingency operations.

Who You Are

You are a collaborative, analytical senior environmental planning professional with extensive experience applying the National Environmental Policy Act to complex federal actions. You combine strong regulatory knowledge, analytical judgment, project leadership, and clear writing to develop legally and technically defensible environmental review documents. You are effective at guiding federal customers, multidisciplinary teams, cooperating agencies, regulators, and stakeholders through planning, impact analysis, public involvement, and decision-making processes.

What You'll Do

• Lead National Environmental Policy Act reviews for proposed federal actions, including environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, categorical exclusion documentation, supplemental analyses, and other agency-specific environmental planning documents.
• Advise federal customers on NEPA strategy, level of review, scope, schedule, risk, agency procedures, documentation requirements, and integration with project planning and decision milestones.
• Develop and review purpose and need statements, proposed action descriptions, reasonable alternatives, affected-environment analyses, environmental consequences, cumulative-effects analyses, mitigation commitments, and decision documents.
• Manage interdisciplinary technical studies 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.
• Coordinate compliance and consultation activities associated with other applicable environmental and historic-preservation requirements, in collaboration with qualified technical specialists and agency counsel.
• Prepare notices, scoping materials, public meeting content, agency correspondence, administrative-record materials, responses to comments, findings of no significant impact, and records of decision.
• Plan and facilitate, technical workshops, public meetings, cooperating-agency meetings, tribal engagement support, and stakeholder coordination activities.
• Lead quality-control reviews to ensure documents are clear, internally consistent, technically supported, traceable to source information, and aligned with applicable agency procedures and project requirements.
• Maintain decision, comment, commitment, consultation, and risk tracking tools and support development of complete, organized, and auditable project files and administrative records.
• Coordinate with federal program managers, legal counsel, engineers, scientists, planners, public-affairs personnel, contractors, regulators, state and local agencies, tribal representatives, and community stakeholders, as appropriate.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, staffing, subcontractors, deliverables, quality, and risks for assigned environmental planning projects and task orders.
• Identify schedule, technical, stakeholder, and litigation risks early and develop practical strategies that support informed and timely federal decision making.
• Mentor environmental planners and technical staff, establish document-development approaches, assign and integrate technical content, and promote consistent application of company and customer procedures.
• Prepare proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, schedules, cost estimates, technical approaches, past-performance descriptions, and oral 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.
• Ten or more years of progressively responsible environmental planning and NEPA experience, including leadership of complex federal environmental reviews. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered when consistent with contract requirements.
• Demonstrated experience preparing and managing environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, categorical exclusion documentation, findings of no significant impact, records of decision, and supporting technical studies.
• Experience supporting U.S. federal agencies, military departments, federal installations, infrastructure programs, or federally managed natural and built environments.
• Thorough working knowledge of NEPA and experience applying federal agency NEPA regulations, procedures, guidance, and documentation practices.
• Working knowledge of related environmental review, permitting, consultation, and public-involvement requirements and the ability to coordinate effectively with qualified specialists and legal counsel.
• Demonstrated ability to develop clear purpose and need statements, alternatives analyses, impact assessments, mitigation commitments, responses to comments, and decision-support documents.
• Experience organizing interdisciplinary teams and integrating technical analyses into concise, consistent, and defensible environmental documents.
• Experience supporting agency coordination, public scoping, public meetings, stakeholder engagement, and responses to substantive comments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage scope, budget, schedule, quality, risk, subcontractors, and client expectations across multiple concurrent assignments.
• Exceptional technical writing, editing, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex environmental issues to federal decision makers and nontechnical audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications. Experience with environmental document-management systems, comment-tracking tools, geographic information systems, data visualization, or project controls software is preferred.
• 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 preemployment 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: $115,000 - $150,000/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.

EEO Commitment

Versar Global Solutions is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Versar Global Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Versar Global Solutions expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran. Improper interference with the ability of Versar Global Solutions employees to perform their job duties is not tolerated.