Senior Environmental Planner

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Environmental Planner specializing in the permitting of infrastructure development to join our growing Texas Environmental Planning & Permitting team.   

This hybrid position can be based out of our Dallas, Houston or Austin, TX offices.

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

• Manages complex clients and projects.
• Oversees specialized planning functions, such as large-scale new development proposals and environmental studies.
• Supervises and mentors team members on multiple projects or programs assignments.
• Develops and evaluates plans and criteria for a variety of projects and activities to be carried out by others.
• Assesses the feasibility and soundness of proposed planning products.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with local, state and federal laws.
• Advises various councils, boards, commissions and elected officials in planning related issues
• Evaluates operations and activities of assigned responsibilities.
• Prepares reports on operations and activities, recommending improvements and modifications.
• Position requires that the candidate must be able to travel for agency/client meetings as well as field work kick-off and auditing as required. 

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 span a variety of market sectors and geographies and require innovative technical solutions to solve wide-ranging environmental problems.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, biology, environmental planning, natural/biological resource management or other related field experience
• 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education in successfully supporting environmental impact analysis documents and associated technical studies, including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance, avian and bat studies, natural resources surveys, and Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting.
• Valid U.S. Driver's license is required.
• Due to the nature of this work, U.S. Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in relevant field.
• 10+ years of work experience in related field, environmental permitting, NEPA compliance, natural resources management, and/or cultural resources management consulting industry.
• Knowledge of Texas and other state public utility commission (PUC) requirements and related experience with wind and solar siting, transmission line routing, and preparing PUC applications.
• Strong, current and recent experience with federal agencies, state agencies energy development companies, electric transmission developers, utilities and other private companies.
• Demonstrated leadership in proposal development and successful pursuit of competitive bids.
• Experience with environmental permitting, NEPA, relevant environmental regulations and processes, and the associated public engagement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage environmental plannin