Environmental Planning Manager

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Job Description

AECOM has an exciting career-defining opportunity for an Environmental Planning Practice Manager to lead our environmental planning team in Southern California (San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles areas) and Honolulu, HI (So Cal/HI). In this important leadership role, you will lead and grown a diverse team of environmental planners and CEQA/NEPA technical leaders across a broad range of practice areas delivering environmental planning, impact assessment, permitting and compliance services to our key clients. AECOM’s Environmental Planning Practice serves numerous federal, state and local government, non-governmental organization, and private industry clients, delivering a variety of resource management, infrastructure, and development-related projects. The role involves serving as a people manager to lead and grown the Environmental Planning practice in So Cal/HI, as well as being a seller-doer to lead business development activities and ensure strong execution and delivery of So Cal/HI projects. The successful candidate will have demonstrated leadership experience (project teams, clients, and technical), excellent written and spoken communication skills, organizational and time management skills, and flexibility to lead and support a multitude of diverse proposals and projects.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

People Leader:

• Serve as supervisor for SoCal/HI env planning team leaders (4-6 direct reports)
• Ensure effective workload distribution for practice, as well as coordination with the broader West Region
• Promote staff development.
• Mentor senior staff for technical and/or people leadership roles
• Coordinate with the So Cal/HI Department Manager and West Region Leadership

Grow the Environmental Planning Business in SoCal/HI:

• Lead development of a strategic plan for the SoCal/HI planning team that identifies greatest opportunities in the market (e.g., funding streams, key clients, market trends, etc.) and articulates a disciplined approach to maximize growth (by end of Q1)
• Network with existing clients across SoCal/HI to increase the volume and value of opportunities in the AECOM pipeline, focusing on maximizing MSAs/on-call contracts.
• Serve as capture manager on select opportunities including win strategy, solution development, competitor analysis, and identifying resources to fully respond to the bid requirements.
• Serve as CAM for key SoCal and/or HI clients (list to be developed)
• Facilitate coordination of cross-team/department collaboration to ensure winning team and technical approach during proposal development and project execution.

Support Execution of Environmental planning projects in Southern California:

• Directly engage in critical SoCal/HI Planning projects as a Senior Technical Advisor/SME
• Support execution teams to ensure strong delivery on SoCal Planning projects.
• Advance consistent approaches for delivering high-quality, profitable work.

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 sp