Environmental Planner (CEQA/NEPA)

Location: Southern California preferred; remote work or office work considered in a hybrid arrangement. Projects requiring immediate support are located throughout Southern California Edison’s service territory. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $61,232.00–$125,954.00 annually.

Company

hirify.global is a global advisory and technology services provider supporting clients with complex environmental, technology, and organizational challenges.

What you will do

• Support Southern California Edison program workflows, including environmental planning coordination, subject matter expert reviews, Environmental Requirements Document development, and deliverable coordination.
• Maintain project trackers, worklists, due-date logs, assignment records, status reports, action items, and work management system updates.
• Coordinate biological, cultural, wetlands and waters, construction stormwater, coastal, air quality, GIS, and other technical reviews.
• Review project information for completeness, identify missing data, document planning assumptions, and follow up with project teams and client contacts.
• Compile SME inputs, prepare planning summaries, support final document delivery, and perform quality assurance and quality control before submittal.
• Communicate priorities, timelines, status updates, and data needs with program managers, planners, scientists, GIS staff, subcontractors, SMEs, regulators, and client representatives.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience in environmental planning, environmental compliance, utility planning, permitting, or a related field in a consulting or team-based environment.
• Experience preparing, supporting, or reviewing environmental planning documents, technical memoranda, environmental requirements documents, desktop review summaries, or other planning deliverables.
• Experience coordinating technical inputs from subject matter experts across biological resources, cultural resources, waters and wetlands, construction stormwater, coastal, air quality, GIS, or related disciplines.
• Experience maintaining trackers, schedules, worklists, action-item logs, and deliverable status reports for multiple concurrent assignments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including coordination with internal staff, subcontractors, external clients, technical reviewers, agency representatives, and utility representatives.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines, and document requirements.
• Ability to communicate clearly, follow up proactively, and escalate schedule, data, or quality concerns in a timely, solution-oriented manner.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a fast-paced, integrated project team.
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and commitment to accurate, high-quality, timely deliverables within established budgets, schedules, and client expectations.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of environmental planning and compliance processes, including CEQA, NEPA, utility environmental review workflows, and desktop review processes.
• Experience supporting California-based utilities, renewable energy developers, commercial, residential, or industrial developers, engineering companies, or local, state, or federal agencies.
• Experience supporting environmental review workflows, planning deliverables, tracker management, task coordination, or utility work management systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work remotely or in the office.
• Collaborative, curious, and deadline-driven environment with an integrated team of planners, scientists, technical specialists, program managers, regulators, subcontractors, and stakeholders.
• Full-time employment with pay determined by experience, skills, certifications, competencies, geographic location, education, and contract requirements.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available throughout the application and employment process.