Environmental Restoration Planners

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (75%).

• Develop environmental restoration project schedules and budgets.
• Notify regulatory or permitting agencies of deviations from implemented remediation plans.
• Collect and analyze data to determine environmental conditions and restoration needs.
• Conduct site assessments to certify a habitat or to ascertain environmental damage or restoration needs.
• Conduct environmental impact studies to examine the ecological effects of pollutants, disease, human activities, nature, and climate change.
• Create habitat management or restoration plans, such as native tree restoration and weed control.
• Develop and communicate recommendations for landowners to maintain or restore environmental conditions.
• Apply for permits required for the implementation of environmental remediation projects.
• Develop natural resource management plans, using knowledge of environmental planning or state and federal environmental regulatory requirements.
• Communicate findings of environmental studies or proposals for environmental remediation to other restoration professionals.
• Identify environmental mitigation alternatives, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, laws, or regulations.
• Write grants to obtain funding for restoration projects.
• Identify short- and long-term impacts of environmental remediation activities.
• Conduct feasibility and cost-benefit studies for environmental remediation projects.
• Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restore habitats.

• Inspect active remediation sites to ensure compliance with environmental or safety policies, standards, or regulations.
• Plan environmental restoration projects, using biological databases, environmental strategies, and planning software.
• Plan or supervise environmental studies to achieve compliance with environmental regulations in construction, modification, operation, acquisition, or divestiture of facilities such as power plants.
• Provide technical direction on environmental planning to energy engineers, biologists, geologists, or other professionals working to develop restoration plans or strategies.
• Review existing environmental remediation designs.