Senior Environmental Planner

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’s EPP group is growing in the Pacific Northwest and is seeking a Senior level Environmental Planner to join our team. Successful candidates would join our diverse team to engage with our expanding pool of public and private sector clients to complete environmental compliance processes and documentation. While we anticipate that this position would focus on serving our client base in the Pacific Northwest, candidates should anticipate having opportunities on environmental planning and permitting projects across the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. The primary work location is Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington.

AECOM is the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. Our Environmental Planning and Permitting (EPP) group is part of the Environment Business Line, responsible for environmental compliance of infrastructure projects for federal, state, and municipal agencies and private industry clients – including work in the transportation, water, energy, ports, and mining sectors.

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

• Serve as Project Manager or Technical Lead, including preparation of scopes of work and cost estimates, financial and budgetary management, resource allocation and scheduling, and management of subcontractors.
• Manage environmental planning projects, including leadership of broad and diverse technical teams while meeting cost, schedule, safety, and quality objectives.
• Provide leadership through development of innovative and progressive project solutions.
• Lead proposal development with marketing support staff, and anticipate, track, and obtain new task orders from existing clients.
• Provide advice, mentor, and enhance the professional development of other members of our team.

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 planning, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Science, Biology, Environmental Planning, Natural/Biological Resource Management or other related field experience.
• 6 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 of federal (National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA]) and state-specific (Washington State Environmental Policy Act [SEPA]), and local environmental per