Technology & Security Consultant III

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Job Description

AECOM’s Environmental Business Line is seeking an experienced and dedicated Technology & Security Consultant III (i.e., Team Member) to support a wide variety of environmental consulting projects.  After a successful onboarding period (estimated 3-9 months), and with their supervisor’s approval, the Team Member will have flexibility to set their own schedule for in-office work, in accordance with AECOM policy.

Initial Responsibility: Our Team administers and provides help desk functions for the operation and sustainment of a database to track hazardous material and hazardous waste, in support of our Department of Defense client’s mission. With appropriate training and support, the Team Member will be expected to become a subject matter expert on the database and its use by our client and their customers. Additional duties will include expanding/implementing the system’s use by customers, communicating with customer program managers to ensure needs are being met, and analyzing system data to facilitate overall program improvement. This position requires an aptitude for data and systems management, client and customer support, and program ownership.

Growth Potential: Our Team supports a wide variety of environmental projects and clients, each with unique systems and data management requirements. A critical aspect of this support is a Team Member that can learn why the data is collected (i.e., client processes and requirements), provide recommendations for data management (i.e., how best to capture the data with minimal effort), and leverage the data to facilitate enterprise-level decision making for client leadership. It is anticipated that the responsibilities of this position will extend to support management of environmental data within our Team and across our client base. Additional roles may include serving as a data task lead on key projects or project management responsibilities of data/information driven projects.

The skills we expect our Environmental Data Manager to bring include, but are not limited to:

Self-Management Skills

• Work independently with minimal supervision but know when to ask for help or guidance.
• Work as part of a team to leverage resources and skills.
• Manage personal workload, apprising managers of progress and obstacles, and completing tasks on time, every time.
• Flexibility to accept tasks of varying responsibility to successfully meet project requirements.
• Willingness to learn new skills and volunteer to expand responsibilities. 
• Rapidly learn new technology, systems, and processes to meet client demands.
• Accountability for work safety, schedule, and quality.

Data Management Skills

• Data Analysis – Examine and manipulate large data sets to ensure quality and consistency of data.
• Information Development – Evaluate large data sets to generate accurate information and reports.
• File Management – Develop logical organization of electronic media (e.g., files, folders, tables, lists).
• Database Management – Understand database structures, relationships, and data formats. Provide administration (e.g., user accounts, passwords, data entry) and operational support (e.g., user training, user guides, user tasks).
• Database Design Concepts – Learn data requirements and user requirements to provide recommendation for how data should be efficiently and intuitively be entered and stored within a database.

Client Management Skills

• Knowledge – Identify client goals, objectives, and priorities. Develop awareness and familiarity with issues and events affecting a client’s organization, department, and/or customers.
• Communicate – Provide calm, confident, and professional communication with clients. Learn and utilize client messagi