Operations Team Lead/Senior Project Manager

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

AECOM is actively seeking a Senior Project Manager/Operations Team Lead specializing in the assessment and permitting of energy facilities, with a focus on renewable energy, electric transmission, and other energy facilities and lead growth for our business in Texas for immediate employment within Texas.  The primary work location is Houston, TX but with AECOM offices throughout Texas, we will consider excellent candidates interested in our other office locations in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. The successful applicant will join a network of existing AECOM specialists across the US and will have the staff resources from across the western US extending from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada available to assist in project delivery and business development.
 
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Manages portfolio of clients with multiple projects.
• Responsible for delivering revenues assigned from specific clients as a result of repeat business caused by flawless execution of projects.
• Consistently delivers profit margins planned.
• Consistently completes project without write-downs or multiplier erosion.
• Typically manages projects involving RTF (Risk Triggering Factors).
• Manages more complex clients and projects.
• Has decision-making authority and directs other Project Managers in recognizing risk and uncertainty with plans to mitigate and eliminate such.
• Directs staff to operate and minimize exposure to claims.
• Supervises and mentors team members with multiple projects or programs assignments.

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 Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, Biology, Environmental Planning, Natural/Biological Resource Management or other related field experience.
• 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education in successfully supporting permitting and environmental impact analysis documents and associated technical studies and oversight on Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance, Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting.
• Position requires that the candidate must be able to travel for agency/client meetings as well as field work kick-off and auditing as required.
• Valid U.S Driver's license is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in relevant field
• 10+ years full time work experience in related field, environmental permitting, NEPA compliance, natural resources management,