Environmental Project Specialist

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking an Environmental Project Specialist to coordinate with a small cross-disciplinary team of resource specialists responsible for natural and cultural resources review, technical surveys, reporting, impact analysis, and preparation of permitting documents. The Environmental Project Specialist will work under the direction of the Environmental Program Manager.  This hybrid role is based in our San Diego, CA office.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong working knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements for linear projects in California.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, creating problem-solving, collaboration and leadership skills.
• Experience coordinating with a diverse team of professionals.
• Experience managing environmental studies for large, complex, linear projects in multiple locations.
• Experience working with design teams to avoid, minimize, and streamline environmental regulatory permitting.
• Ability to apply acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges.
• Experience successfully coaching peers and team members.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in project and team meetings. Schedule meetings, prepare meeting agendas, take meeting notes, and distribute.
• Prepare presentations and documentation pertaining to current and recommended environmental permitting processes.
• Provide input on process improvement strategies.
• Maintains project level tracking of environmental tasks and maintains managerial oversight across a broad portfolio of similar linear utility projects.
• Plan and manage environmental reviews, technical studies, and milestones, across multiple resources areas including biological, aquatic, cultural, and stormwater resources.
• Assign staff and manage workload of team members to ensure the timely and accurate completion of project tasks.
• Plan and manage environmental strategies, including development of permitting efficiencies for routine permit attainment.
• Function as part or larger team focused on design, permitting, land rights acquisition and environmental, collaborate to obtain project approval in timely fashion.
• Oversee preparation of environmental technical reports that meet the requirements of local governments and jurisdictions, governing agencies or any other relevant entities.
• Work with client to support external agency communications and submittals.
• Serve as subject matter expert on matters related to environmental planning and/or regulations.
• Coordinate with project managers to ensure engineering plans and/or proposed construction methods meet requirements of agencies.
• Inform other internal functional groups about requirements and regulations of government entities to assist with compliance with general conditions of approvals at permit and construction stages of the project, and to meet project timelines.
• Acts as a primary point of contact with clients.
• Manage internal and external project status reporting.
• Potentially manage and oversee external consultants, including reviewing quality of work product.
• Provides input on planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, recommending, and implementing changes to methods.

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.

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