Early Career Environmental Planner

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Your impact

At Jacobs, we’re driving positive change—advancing environmental stewardship, modernizing energy infrastructure, and supporting a more sustainable future. We’re looking for an Early Career Environmental Planner to help lead fast-paced utility infrastructure projects that enable our clients to adapt and thrive in a rapidly evolving world. In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering planning and permitting solutions for energy maintenance and replacement projects across California. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, partner closely with clients, and help guide projects from strategy through execution—all while contributing to safer infrastructure, healthier communities, and protection of natural resources.

Location Northern California (Bay Area or Sacramento preferred) with flexible remote work options.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and support environmental planning and permitting strategies for utility projects
• Coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring high-quality deliverables
• Collaborate with client technical leads and cross-functional teams
• Organize, analyze, and communicate complex technical information clearly
• Mentor and support team members while strengthening your own leadership skills
  
  
  

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Urban, Regional or Environmental Planning, Environmental Science, Natural Resources or other related technical area
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team to prepare environmental documentation for fast-paced utility projects
• Ability to foster relationships with large project teams, clients, client contractor staff, and third-party consultants
• Ability to work in the Bay Area or Sacramento area, with travel occasionally to the client office and project sites within the state for planning reviews.
  
  
  

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• 0-2 years of experience coordinating and leading tasks and deliverables with multiple technical leads and stakeholders
• Previous experience providing land planning and permitting support/coordination for linear utility projects in California.
• Previous experience attending field meetings and an understanding of general Health and Safety protocols/requirements for engaging in field work.
• A proven track record of exceeding client expectations regarding deliverable quality while keeping an eye on schedule and budget. Ability to represent Jacobs during project meetings (in person field meets and conference calls) in order to provide status updates, track action items, and identify potential risks to project schedules.
• Ability to read, understand and summarize technical documents on multiple subject areas
• Understanding of linear utility construction methods, and planning and permitting in California
• Experience supporting projects during CEQA/NEPA processes and resource agency permitting
• Ability to provide quality control of self-produced work products, including close attention to detail in order to ensure deliverables are prepared according to Jacobs’ and clients’ high standards
• Strong self-starter with ability to balance work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and organizational skills, particularly in a remote work setting
• Experience with GIS, kmz files (Google Earth), and informational databases.
• Experience and poise handling public involvement, agency coordination, and communication with clients, stakeholders and professionals.
• Ability to grow and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic program that often requires responses to client inquiries to be provided within 24 hours
  
  
  

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $65,700.00 to $90,300.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on May 27, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.