Risk Assessment Lead - Environmental Compliance and Human Health Risk

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

AECOM is actively seeking an experienced Environmental Compliance and Risk Assessment Lead position in our Baton Rouge or New Orleans, LA office to manage a variety of projects.  The primary emphasis of the group is to support clients with their environmental regulatory compliance and risk assessment needs.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate familiarity and experience in human health risk evaluations and associated submittal requirements for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, or other relevant experience

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Provide regulatory interpretation of environmental laws and regulations to our clients by assessing exposure and human health risks from chemicals in contaminated environmental media;
• Data management, risk assessment and statistical analysis; data preparation and management such as organizing, tracking, extracting and summarizing environmental data and their sources.
• Perform calculations to support human health risk assessments and environmental regulatory compliance (risk-based remedial goals);
• Manage a variety of risk assessment projects with varying levels of complexity and size, manage scope, schedule, and budget for risk assessment and compliance projects.
• Building strong face-to-face client relationships, manage client and regulatory correspondence.
• Serves as staff team leader and supervisor: provide mentoring, guidance and coaching to new or less experienced staff, recruit and develop junior risk assessment scientists.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging USEPA, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and state regulatory requirements (Louisiana Risk Evaluation / Corrective Action Program [RECAP]).
• Execute a wide variety of environmental risk evaluation and compliance projects with minimal supervision while meeting cost, schedule, safety, and quality objectives.
• Regular travel is required to client sites as necessary.
• Prepare technical reports, letters, memoranda, workplans, proposals, investigative reports, and presentations; and
• Focus on team project delivery, taking direction primarily from supervisors and Project Managers.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Chemistry, Toxicology, Biology or closely related field along with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

• Ability to travel up to 1 week/month or more.

• Valid U.S. Driver's license is required for this role.

• U.S. Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of environmental consulting experience.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience directly related to human health risk evaluations and associated submittal requirements and environmental multi-media environmental regulatory compliance (e.g. CERCLA /Superfund, RCRA, etc.)

• Professional certification - DAPT or other equivalent certification

• Participation in developing effective business proposals for providing competitive, high value environmental services.

• Deep fundamental knowledge of human health risk evaluations, developing site-specific exposure assumptions, and risk characterization.

• Deep fundamental knowledge of environmental regulations and consensus standards, including:

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) – waste classification, management, and reporting;

  • Oil Pollution Act (OPA);

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA);

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA);

  • Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)

• Ability to act independently on technical matters pertaining to environmental human health risk assessment and regulatory compliance with little to no supervision.

• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills; extremely prof