Senior Environmental Planner/Project Delivery Coordinator

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Environmental Planner/Project Delivery Coordinator to be a key member of an exciting and transformative new program that AECOM is leading for a major Southern California utility client involving undergrounding of electrical infrastructure.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated candidate to take on this career-defining opportunity. As part of this important role, you will manage a focused cross-disciplinary team of specialists responsible for natural and cultural resources review, technical surveys, reporting, impact analysis, and preparation of permitting documents.  This position is located in our San Diego, CA office with a hybrid work option.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong working knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements for linear projects in California.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, creative problem-solving, collaboration and leadership skills
• Experience leading 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:

• Maintains project level tracking of environmental tasks and maintains managerial oversight across a broad portfolio of similar linear utility projects.
• Plan and manage environmental review and technical studies, including biological, aquatic, and cultural 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 the primary point of contact with clients.
• Manage internal and external project status reporting; Participate in project and team meetings.
• Manage and oversee external consultants, including reviewing quality of work product.
• Has control of 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.

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.

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