Environmental Planner II, Renewables

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 has an exciting opportunity for a Junior-level Environmental Planning professional to join our Southern California Environmental Planning Group. This is a hybrid role and can be based out of AECOM’s Los Angeles, Orange or San Diego, CA offices. Our EPP team serves numerous federal, state and local government, non-governmental organization, and private industry clients, delivering a variety of resource management, infrastructure, and development-related projects.  In this role you will work with our environmental planning practitioners and technical subject matter experts to prepare environmental documents, with a particular focus on supporting permitting and entitlement work for our growing line of work with renewable energy developers and federal land management agencies.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Assist clients and AECOM project manager(s) in developing and reviewing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents, including Categorical Exemptions, Categorical Exclusions, Initial Studies, Environmental Assessments, Mitigated Negative Declarations, Findings of No Significant Impacts, Environment Impact Reports, and Environment Impact Statements.
• Coordination with municipal and county governments for renewable energy applications, including entitlement support for discretionary approvals.
• Support the preparation of environmental documents such as technical reports, permit application packages, and mitigation, monitoring, and reporting plans.
• Interpret and apply applicable government codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Perform occasional field inspections to gather data relevant to the development review process and/or to verify that development projects comply with approved plans.
• Assist clients and project managers with the development of meeting and project materials as necessary (e.g., presentation slides, handouts, agendas, and schedules).
• Support public meetings and assist in preparing meeting materials and compiling meeting results, including PowerPoint presentations, and other materials.
• Contribute to marketing and business development efforts in pursuit of new clients and projects.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Adobe Portable Document Format application programs. Assist clients and project managers in maintaining project records (e.g., electronic filing, basic database management).
• Attend occasional evening and/or weekend meetings based on project needs.

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.