Senior NEPA Specialist

Company: Arcadis
Location: Nashville
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Description Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Arcadis is seeking a mid-level to Senior NEPA Specialist for our Mobility team in Nashville, Chattanooga, or Knoxville, TN. Our team is known for innovation and outstanding customer service and will continue to build on these values. This is a unique opportunity to lead and manage the delivery of NEPA documents for challenging Design-Bid-Build projects as well as the fast paced schedules for Design-Build delivery. Role accountabilities: Lead and manage multi-firm, multi-task, interdisciplinary team task orders and contracts for infrastructure planning studies. Planning assignments may involve new transportation facilities or other infrastructure developments for the public and private sector. Prepare NEPA documents for minor programmatic projects to complex Categorical Exclusions and less complex Environmental Assessments. Develop project scopes and budgets, interfacing with and maintenance of clients, mentoring and development of junior staff, and development of project plans and schedules. Adherence to Arcadis' practices including quality and safety standards. Interpersonal and client facing responsibilities will include excellent, clear and concise, oral and written communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to coordinate meetings, resources, and presentations. Qualifications & Experience: Required Qualifications: 7-10 years’ experience in serving as a seller-doer with Departments of Transportation Bachelor’s degree in planning, policy, a biological or physical science, or economics Key Attributes: Proven success in delivering minor to complex environmental projects Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Must work well in a collaborative environment Fluency with MS Project, Powerpoint, Excel, and Word. Desired Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and related project planning or niche discipline used in NEPA analysis Active participation in regional and/or national professional associations. Registration as certified planner (AICP) with the American Institute of Certified Planners or registration as a Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) with the Association of Board Certified Environmental Professionals. Proficiency with ProjectWise, Primavera, Prezi, MS Access, and other software programs that provide value within the project management and planning contract contexts. Related experience for other departments of transportation in the South. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $95000 - $135000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location. LI-VJ1 Mobility-US-Jobs Mobility-US-D&E-Jobs LI-HYBRID ANA-Ecologist/NEPA

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