Mid-level Botanist

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a highly talented Mid-level Botanist (Botanist II) with experience in protocol-level botanical surveys, botanical habitat assessments, vegetation characterization and mapping, and/ or wetland ecology.

This hrbrid position is based in AECOM’s Oakland office and would support a variety of clients on projects throughout northern California. Field work is often local, but occasionally may include overnight travel to other locations, such as the Central Coast, Sierra Nevada foothills or other states.

The Natural and Cultural Resources Department employs more than 45 staff, including botanists, climate ecologists, permitting specialists, wildlife biologists, and cultural resource specialists. The Department is dynamic, energetic, and one where hard work is rewarded. Project work at this office is primarily related to utilities, infrastructure, and restoration, and involves field surveys, restoration planning, environmental permitting, NEPA/CEQA compliance, and project monitoring.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Protocol-level rare plant surveys; rare plant census counts; quantitative vegetation monitoring; botanical assessments; non-native invasive plant mapping and management; implementation of rare plant mitigation and monitoring; and/or vegetation classification and mapping independently and as part of a team
• Preparation of technical reports, including botanical survey reports, daily field reports, habitat assessments, vegetation classifications, monitoring reports, and/or sections thereof
• Successfully balance field work and office responsibilities
• Implement electronic data collection methods, manage field data, and assist with data analysis and interpretation
• Work under supervision of a project manager or senior-level team member
• Travel to field locations with occasional out-of-town overnight stays

Other responsibilities may include:

• Preparation of conservation plans; habitat management plans; environmental permitting documents; environmental impact reports and statements; and mitigation and monitoring plans, including recommendations for avoidance and minimization of impacts to botanical and biological resources.
• Natural resource surveys for wildfire/fuels reduction, wildlife, hydrology, geomorphology, and/or habitat assessments.
• Conducting pre-construction surveys of project sites.
• Providing environmental trainings to construction crews.
• Monitoring of construction sites for compliance with resource agency permits.
• Monitoring tree and weed management crews during vegetation removal in sensitive habitats.

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.

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