Planning and Environmental Engineer – Aviation
Job Description
- Help manage prioritization, planning, and compliance of NC- and federally-funded infrastructure development projects for NC’s public airports.
- Work with NC’s 62 general aviation airports to oversee airport planning and environmental issues.
- Serve as the reviewer for all airport infrastructure project documents to ensure they meet federal environmental, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and stormwater requirements.
- Attend Airport Layout Plan/Master Plan scoping meetings for each planning project (~30/year) and public meetings, as available, to track progress and provide input.
- Submit Runway Safety Area inventory data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- Assist with grant assurance compliance investigations.
- Work directly with FAA staff, airport consultants, and airports to finalize airport master plans.
- Manage NCDOT Aviation contracts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide wildlife hazard mitigation training, site assessments, and incident management.
- Evaluate designs and proposals from private engineering firms (PEFs) and airport authorities to ensure solutions proposed for airports are consistent with good planning practices and environmental requirements.
- Develop and implement best practices, standard operating procedures, and guidance for aviation planning and environmental processes for NC general aviation airports.
- Present on planning and environmental topics at NCDOT-hosted professional development courses and annual airport planning meetings.
- Provide training for NCDOT staff.
- Conduct research tasks related to environmental and planning topics.
- Contribute data to and write, edit, and proofread materials, including memos, reports, emails, invitations, PowerPoint
- Participate in and contribute to the NCDOT’s strategic planning, tracking, and reporting activities helping advance our agency’s vision and mission.
- High professional, collegial energy that thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to advance NCDOT’s goals.
- Problem solving skills, takes initiative and acts effectively to ensure projects and tasks are completed successfully.
- Experience planning, developing, scheduling, tracking, and completing projects independently or with limited supervision.
- Experience in planning/environmental roles related to transportation projects.
- Experience developing guidance and delivering training on technical topics.
- Problem-solving experience in customer service-related scenarios involving complicated engineering concepts that need to be communicated to various stakeholder groups.
- Computer skills in Microsoft Office.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, and
- 4+ years of relevant experience; or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience.
- We may require you to be registered as a professional engineer by the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.
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