Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Specialist

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 skilled Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analyst to join our growing California community and environmental planning practice. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate experienced in air quality and GHG analysis, particularly under the California Environmental Quality Act, looking to grow their career with more complex assignments, projects throughout California, or broader work in sustainability planning. With our multi-disciplinary firm, depending on interest and skills, in addition to air quality tasks, the candidate could have opportunities for other types of environmental analysis, contributing to long-range policy documents, assisting with climate action planning, and developing strategies related to sustainability and environmental justice.  While the position will be mapped to our Sacramento office, we are flexible with respect to the typical place of work.

This individual would be a key team member within our Environmental Planning and Permitting Group, working alongside environmental scientists and planners of various disciplines to provide planning and environmental review services to private and public sector clients across a range of industries. 

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

• Estimating air pollutant emissions using both industry standard models and applying industry standard methodology to off-model calculations
• Conducting air quality and greenhouse gas analyses and reporting under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
• Collect and analyze data to inform dispersion modeling and analysis.
• Successfully leading tasks and executing assignments on time, on budget, and meeting our quality objectives.
• Collaborating with other air quality specialists, other project team members, and project managers
• Applying a technically sound and often creative approach to analyses and mitigation design that meets statutory, regulatory, and case law guidance.
• Develop technical presentations.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of design features and strategies in achieving emission reductions.
• Contribute to marketing efforts and proposals in collaboration with senior staff.
• Provide technical peer review of deliverables.
• Continually develop technical knowledge and build capabilities in air pollutant emissions assessment.

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.

AECOM’s Sustainable Legacies program describes our approach to the environment, social equity and governance (ESG.) We embed sustainability throughout our business and help clients embed sustainable practices into their work. We help clients reduce their impact on the environment, achieve compliance and reduce risks.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Valid U.S. Driver's license is required for this role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Prior CEQA experience 
• Strong computing skills including high level use of spreadsheets and word processing.
• Strong communication skills, including verba