environmental planner

transport planner

biologist

archaeologist

air quality specialist

LSA Associates, Inc.

I am an administrative support person so my typical workday is quite different from the average environmental planner/consultant at this company. I've been told we work for two completely different companies.

I usually have my work already prescheduled and waiting for me when I come into the office in the morning. My work arrives for me all day throughout the day and staggered. I never know whether I will be busy or not until work hits me. I also have no control over my workflow as others control it. The only control I have over my work is how regimented and how articulate I am at doing my job.

My best friends at my job are Macros (and other such crutches) I create to make my daily life easier. I especially enjoy sharing newly discovered tricks with the rest of the gang in my department.

The biggest challenges throughout my workday are (1) meeting the deadlines with (2) additions/changes I've been given thereto. Often times I am provided vague and/or incomplete changes with a request for commitment to an absolute return time. Additional to dealing with deadline issues and/or incomplete data, vague and ambiguous instructions need to be followed up on or dealt with immediately - in order to return a complete and final document to the client (the person whom I'm preparing the document for).

I thoroughly enjoy making typefaces, fonts, colors, tables, and graphics harmonize with each other on paper, while minimizing on white space. For me there is nothing more beautiful than an evenly balanced piece of paper that adheres to Style and has a Template!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Varied projects, pretty good health insurance 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The department managers pressure certain employees to overwork and over burden themselves with constant project stress, while they allow others to coast by with minimal expectations or progression pressure. The deep favoritism is blatant, and there is certainly no "family environment" at this company. Everyone is overworked and underpaid, and everything is a rushed emergency. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
No friendly atmosphere or sense of real community, as everyone lives far away from the offices and works from home. No actual connection with managers, or even with the other members of the team. There is a very "clique-y" environment to the managers. Overall company culture is overwhelmingly corporate and empty, constant focus on billability and financial goals, and weighed down by excessive administrative/HR bloat.

ROLE: Always learning something new! Lots of variety in the work and types of challenges. Great, supportive department. Workload tended to be "flood or famine," but that's just the nature of the industry.

COMPANY: Supportive, positive culture. Regular, transparent communication from management. Constantly looking for ways to improve processes, business, morale, etc. 

PEOPLE: Hard workers who care about what they're doing and about making the company better. For the most part, people will always help when you ask.

BENEFITS: Fair pay. Small yearly raises. Excellent benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and ESOP.

Everyone was extremely friendly in the office. As expected from a consulting job, there are long hours put into work for projects. Free meal every month for staff meeting so that was a plus. I drove to the Riverside office from Los Angeles, and therefore it was time for me to leave the company because the drive was killing me.

What is the best part of working at the company?
To practice being an interpreter 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They practice favoritism and they only.give the work to their favorite people. You can wait forever and never get a face to face interpretation case 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Favoritism abx they don't care 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Waitibg all day to be assigned a case

The beginning of my employment was great. My manager was very approachable and worked well with me and other staff. The staff at the company was very friendly and welcoming. The whole staff were excellent team players.

Typical day:  managing and preparing proposals; developing PR material (press releases, employee announcements etc.)
Learned:  The environmental consulting industry
Management:  Professional
Workplace culture:  Pleasant
Hardest part of my job:  I was a one-person department, very stressful at times.
Most enjoyable part of the job:  Opportunity to grow professionally.

Job description varies and every day is different.Employee owned there is an overall good work ethic. Options for upward mobility and willing to train you. Great for a long term career.

I fully recommend this company. My experience is pre-pandemic but at that time it had a true family atmosphere and relationships made there are for a lifetime. Benefits were in the 99.8 percentile of the country at the time. Being 100% employee owned impacts every aspect of the company. 

Good place to work for the most part. I created maps and graphics for the reports written by technical staff. We had staff meetings once a month where employee of the month was selected, status of the company discussed and often a meal provided.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Environmental planner 10 salaries reported	$101,350 per year
Transport planner 19 salaries reported	$102,079 per year
Biologist 7 salaries reported	$34.14 per hour
Archaeologist 6 salaries reported	$87,200 per year
Air quality specialist 3 salaries reported	$97,500 per year

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