Environmental Planner I

ABOUT THE POSITION

The County of Riverside's Department of Facilities Management is seeking an Environmental Planner I to join its Environmental Energy Team in Riverside, CA.

Under general supervision, the Environmental Planner I will support environmental planning and environmental equipment compliance activities.

The Environmental Planner I will support essential environmental compliance responsibilities involving County underground storage tanks, emergency generators, chillers, hazardous materials, cogeneration equipment, and septic and water systems. The incumbent will support ongoing monitoring, inspections, training, contractor coordination, and timely permit management to ensure continued regulatory compliance and uninterrupted County operations.  The Environmental Planner I will also perform other related duties as needed.

In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications, the most competitive candidates will possess: 
•A fundamental understanding of environmental planning principles and public administration.
•Excellent oral and written communication skills.
•Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with tact, patience, and courtesy.
•Basic knowledge of public relations techniques.

This class is the entry level in the professional Environmental Planner series. Incumbents report to a senior level planner class and receive substantial training in the principles, methods, and procedures essential to professional planning activities. Incumbents are generally given environmental, land use or transportation planning assignments of a more routine, less complex nature. Their work is initially subject to detailed and frequent review which lessens as they become more experienced. This class differs from the next higher class of Environmental Planner II in which incumbents are expected to have advanced their job knowledge and skills sufficiently to perform the less complex planning assignments with less guidance and review.

Environmental Planner II is an intermediate working level designed to be the transition class between the entry and fully qualified journeyperson. Environmental Planner I incumbents are expected to promote to Environmental Planner II upon acquiring the necessary experience and receiving a satisfactory job performance evaluation. Failure to achieve a satisfactory performance evaluation and the necessary experience and education to promote to Environmental Planner II within the probationary period will result in incumbents being returned to their former County classification or being released during their initial probationary period.

Meet the Team!

Riverside County Department of Facilities Management provides property management and operations services for county owned and leased facilities throughout the 7,200 square miles of Riverside County and over 14 million square feet of space. The department is responsible for keeping county buildings safe, comfortable and productive for both county staff and the public.

EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Reviews and analyzes proposed County facility projects and environmental studies.

• Contacts various public agencies to gather information pertinent to specific cases of environmental studies.

• Makes field trips to property sites and surrounding areas to gather facts; take photographs of significant community/natural resource features.

• Plans and coordinates with delineators on preparation of maps, graphs, and other visual displays; analyzes collected case or project data and formulates recommendations.

• Assists in preparing master environmental assessments, Requests for Proposal/Qualifications for environmental services; and reviews/tracks consultant proposals/scope of work, budget and project schedules.

• Reviews CEQA and/or NEPA technical studies and documents; prepares and manages CEQA notices of exemption for routine maintenance, small construction/expansion/improvement and emergency repair projects; ensures implementation of Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Programs.

• Conducts planning studies of human, physical, natural, economic and/or governmental resources for the general plan, regional plans, area plans, highway plan or operating work plan.

• Analyzes existing plans and assists in identifying deficiencies in policy or legal authority and defining areas for policy consideration and decision.

• May assist in oral presentations of information and recommendations to local planning committees, councils, public agencies, and community groups.

• Collects raw or previously compiled data from a variety of information sources for use in making long for studies; analyzes the validity and comparability of data.

• Applies statistical formulas in the analysis of demographic, economic, environmental, and other data; provides data as requested for various planning studies and programs.

• Answers the more routine public inquiries regarding ordinances, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures governing land use and transportation planning development.

• May use computers to assist in any of the above applications.

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Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Graduation from an accredited college with a bachelor's degree, preferably with major coursework in urban planning, public administration, environmental sciences, construction management or closely related field. (Qualifying experience in environmental planning, land use planning, transportation planning or construction management may be substituted for the required education on the basis of one year of full time experience equaling 30 semester or 45 quarter units of education)
• Knowledge of: Basic purposes and functions of a planning department, environmental or transportation planning, or development review
• basic research methods and elements of report writing
• basic statistical methods and their uses
• working knowledge of environmental regulatory laws and processes
• Ability to: Learn planning principles and procedures and implement them in the work setting
• gather and analyze data
• reason logically, draw valid conclusions, and make appropriate recommendations
• speak and write effectively
• meet with the public in a tactful and effective manner
• learn to interpret and apply laws and regulations
• learn to read and interpret land use maps
• Other Requirements License: Possession of a valid California Driver's License is required
• This position involves travel to various locations throughout the county to perform inspections and attend off-site meetings

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