Environmental Project Manager

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Job Description

AECOM is actively seeking an experienced Environmental Project Manager position in our Baton Rouge, Louisiana office to manage a variety of projects.  The primary emphasis of the group is to support key program clients with their environmental regulatory compliance and remediation needs.  

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Understand site investigation and remediation techniques to drive solutions for our clients. 

• Determine and define project scope and objectives. 

• Manages all phases of projects (from beginning to close out). 

• Predict resource needs and manage resources effectively. 

• Monitor project performance to identify areas for improvement. 

• Makes sound, well-informed and objective decisions with a strong understanding of the impact and implications of decisions. 

• May provide technical oversight and quality control. 

• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress. 

• Identify, mitigate, and manage project risks. 

• Advises/mentors less experienced staff on project management skills. 

• Data management, risk assessment and statistical analysis; data preparation and management such as organizing, tracking, extracting and summarizing environmental data and their sources.

• Manage a variety of 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 plus minimum of four years of relevant work experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• MVR and Drug Screening

• U.S. Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Biology or closely related field

• 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 environmental regulations and consensus standards, including:

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

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