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 🔗Historical Studies Environmental Project Planner

  • Full Time
  • Austin, TX
  • $70,000 - $85,000 USD / Year
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Cultural Resources
  • Job Reference #: 2404151
  • Job Qualifications:

    Minimum Qualifications:

    Education: Bachelor’s Degree in history, anthropology, architectural history, or a closely related discipline. Experience in environmental, planning, project management or other related fields may be substituted for education on a year per year basis OR related graduate level education may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis.
    Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications

    Experience:

    Environmental Project Planner II – Minimum of 3 years environmental, planning, project management or other relevant experience. (Experience can be satisfied by fulltime or prorated parttime equivalent).

    Environmental Project Planner III – Minimum of 5 years environmental, planning, project management or other relevant experience. (Experience can be satisfied by fulltime or prorated part time equivalent)

    Other Conditions:

    Must meet Secretary of Interior’s Code of Federal Regulations, 36 CRF Part 61 requirements.

  • How to Apply:

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TxDOT

TxDOT’s Environmental Affairs Division is seeking to fill a position for Environmental Project Planner II, III – Historical Studies in the Cultural Resources Management Section.
This position assists TxDOT in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 4f of the Department of Transportation Act, and the Antiquities Code of Texas. Candidates use their knowledge of Texas architecture, cultural landscapes, cemeteries, and other historic places in reviewing transportation projects to minimize impacts to cultural resources and assist with permitting and agency coordination. This position involves a lot of public communication and community engagement at local, state, and national government levels.
If you are a history lover and have at least three years of expertise in the state and federal environmental regulations that protect cultural resources this job is for you!
TxDOT’s Cultural Resources Management Section in the Environmental Affairs Division is part of TxDOT’s diverse workforce of over 12,000 employees statewide. At TxDOT we value employee work-life-balance. In keeping with our commitment to this value our employees benefit from a wide array of programs and activities that include telework, flexed and compressed work schedules, wellness leave incentive, in-house fitness center, career development programs, tuition assistance, and various other benefits. For a complete list of our total compensation package, please visit our website.

As an Environmental Project Planner II/III – Historical Studies, you will be working with the ENV cultural resources management team members, other ENV staff, and District staff to coordinate and manage historical/non-archeological and cultural resource activities associated with transportation projects for the Department. You will provide subject matter and technical expertise while serving as a liaison with state and federal resource agencies, environmental and special interest groups, consultant staff, and internal project sponsors. You may lead or assist with programmatic efforts, conduct outreach and presentations to the public, or participate in research activities within and external to the Department in the areas of cultural resources. You will report to the Section Director of Cultural Resources Management.  Employees at this level are virtually self-supervising and assume direct accountability for the work product.