Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking an Environmental Planner/Project Delivery Coordinato r to be a key member of an exciting and transformative new program that AECOM is leading for a major Southern California utility client, involving undergrounding of electrical infrastructure. We are seeking an experienced and motivated candidate to take on this career-defining opportunity. As part of this important role, you will manage a focused cross-disciplinary team of specialists responsible for natural and cultural resources review, technical surveys, reporting, impact analysis, and preparation of permitting documents. This position is located in our San Diego, CA office with a hybrid work option.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong working knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements for linear projects in California.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, creating problem-solving, collaboration and leadership skills.
• Experience leading a diverse team of professionals.
• Experience managing environmental studies for large, complex, linear projects in multiple locations.
• Experience working with design teams to avoid, minimize and streamline environmental regulatory permitting.
• Ability to apply acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges.
• Experience successfully coaching peers and team members.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Maintains project level tracking of environmental tasks and maintains managerial oversight across a broad portfolio of similar linear utility projects.
• Plan and manage environmental reviews, technical studies, and milestones, across multiple resources areas including biological, aquatic, cultural, and stormwater resources.
• Assign staff and manage workload of team members to ensure the timely and accurate completion of project tasks.
• Plan and manage environmental strategies, including development of permitting efficiencies for routine permit attainment.
• Function as part or larger team focused on design, permitting, land rights acquisition and environmental, collaborate to obtain project approval in timely fashion.
• Oversee preparation of environmental technical reports that meet the requirements of local governments and jurisdictions, governing agencies or any other relevant entities.
• Work with client to support external agency communications and submittals.
• Serve as subject matter expert on matters related to environmental planning and/or regulations.
• Coordinate with project managers to ensure engineering plans and/or proposed construction methods meet requirements of agencies.
• Inform other internal functional groups about requirements and regulations of government entities to assist with compliance with general conditions of approvals at permit and construction stages of the project, and to meet project timelines.
• Acts as the primary point of contact with clients.
• Manage internal and external project status reporting; Participate in project and team meetings.
• Manage and oversee external consultants, including reviewing quality of work product.
• Has control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, recommending, and implementing changes to methods.

About AECOM's Environment Business Line

Join AECOM to be part of an expert global team who is connected through a well-developed, worldwide, internal technical practice network through which you can learn from and brainstorm with the best in the world. AECOM is an industry-leading, world class environmental firm, and we want you to succeed within it. We respect and encourage your own pathway to excellence via our Freedom to Grow initiative.

AECOM is known for our award-winning technical excellence, leading-edge science and innovative project delivery. We provide sustainable solutions for some of the world's most challenging issues. Our global clients and their projects are diverse and interesting. They span market sectors and geographies and require innovative technical solutions to solve wide-ranging environmental problems within diverse community profiles.

AECOM's Sustainable Legacies program describes our approach to the environment, social equity and governance (ESG.) We embed sustainability throughout our business and help clients embed sustainable practices into their work. We help clients reduce their impact on the environment, achieve compliance and reduce risks.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, law, environmental science, land use Planning, or another relevant field.
• 4 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education in environmental planning and project/task management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in acquiring environmental approvals in support of land rights acquisition from public agencies.
• 6+ years of experience performing environmental reviews and obtaining permits for utility or related industry
• Master's degree in technical or business discipline
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong people skills/soft skills and presentation skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Must be resourceful, flexible and maintain the ability to react and respond quickly with a focus on accuracy
• Experience with developing planning documents for CEQA/NEPA review preferred
• Supervisory experience
• Project and client management experience including management of multiple projects of significant scope and complexity
• Ability to thrive in quickly changing environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Additional Information

• Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required.

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Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $85,000.00 - $110,000.00.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10108228

Business Line: Environment

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: West

Career Area: Planning

Work Location Model: Hybrid