New Grad Environmental Planner I - Summer 2025

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. 

Our Raleigh, North Carolina Office is seeking May 2025 New Grads for our Environmental Planner I position.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing planning support from concept development through project completion including researching, gathering, and analyzing data, preparing project materials, and applying environmental laws and regulations, to ensure compliance on behalf of the client. The primary focus will include: 

- GIS map development
- Analysis of demographic and environmental data
- Environmental report preparation in accordance with CEQA and NEPA requirements
- Calculating environmental impacts related to transportation projects
- Technical report development with emphasis on environmental resource(s)
- Technical writing and summarizing technical reports for environmental documentation
-Field work, data gathering and research

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Analyzes the design plan and identifies deliverables.
• Compiles and analyzes data associated with multi-disciplines and proposes technical solutions. Collects raw data, organizes, researches, and applies recognized tools of analysis to provide comprehensive review of the data.
• Prepares graphics and reports for limited portions of a project or for small-scale projects.
• Assists in the creation and presentation of project presentation materials, concepts, graphics, and reports to the client and community groups.
• May attend project team meeting with limited client interaction and other project consultants. Responsible for documenting meeting minutes, correspondences, and other forms related to projects within scope.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering or related field

Preferred Qualifications

What You’ll Bring:

• Understands how to operate Microsoft Office Suite and client-specific programs with direction from more experienced staff.
• Compiles and summarizes data (i.e., census data, land use data, ecology data, section 106, air and noise) with direction from more experienced staff.
• Gains a basic understanding of environmental laws and regulations (i.e., NEPA, local, state and federal laws).
• Uses technical writing skills proficiently, making use of basic templates to create technically sound reports.
• Contributes to the environmental review documents and helps prepare reports with direction from more experienced staff.
• Assists in the development of permitting materials

What We Prefer:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with GIS tools
• Knowledge of CEQA, NEPA and other state and federal environmental regulations
• Regulatory permitting experience