Senior Environmental Planner - AECOM

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AECOM’s EPP group is growing in the Pacific Northwest and is seeking a Senior level Environmental Planner to join our team. Successful candidates would join our diverse team to engage with our expanding pool of public and private sector clients to complete environmental compliance processes and documentation. While we anticipate that this position would focus on serving our client base in the Pacific Northwest, candidates should anticipate having opportunities on environmental planning and permitting projects across the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. The primary work location is Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington.

AECOM is the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. Our Environmental Planning and Permitting (EPP) group is part of the Environment Business Line, responsible for environmental compliance of infrastructure projects for federal, state, and municipal agencies and private industry clients – including work in the transportation, water, energy, ports, and mining sectors.

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

• Serve as Project Manager or Technical Lead, including preparation of scopes of work and cost estimates, financial and budgetary management, resource allocation and scheduling, and management of subcontractors.
• Manage environmental planning projects, including leadership of broad and diverse technical teams while meeting cost, schedule, safety, and quality objectives.
• Provide leadership through development of innovative and progressive project solutions.
• Lead proposal development with marketing support staff, and anticipate, track, and obtain new task orders from existing clients.
• Provide advice, mentor, and enhance the professional development of other members of our team.

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.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental planning, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Science, Biology, Environmental Planning, Natural/Biological Resource Management or other related field experience.
• 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education in successfully supporting permitting and environmental impact analysis documents and associated technical studies and oversight of federal (National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA]) and state-specific (Washington State Environmental Policy Act [SEPA]), and local environmental permitting and compliance documents.
• Valid U.S Driver's license is required.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 10 years of relevant environmental planning experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading environmental planning and permitting efforts associated with the Pacific Northwest, specifically permitting by the Oregon and Washington Energy Facility Siting Councils (EFSC and EFSEC)
• Knowledge of and experience applying the policies, standards, and regulations of County and municipal land use in Oregon and Washington.
• Demonstrated leadership in the preparation of NEPA, SEPA, and/or CEQA environmental documents.
• Demonstrated expertise in assembling federal and state permit applications packages to support project implementation, including packages in compliance with Sections 401 and 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act.
• Ability and experience understanding, interpreting, explaining, and applying all applicable regulations, policies, procedures, and standards to complex, specialized, and diverse land use planning processes or development proposals.
• Ability and experience performing analysis of land use implications of project design alternatives and recommending or adopting effective courses of action. 
• Experience in consulting and interest in business development and client engagement, as well as presenting complex environmental documents to planning commissions, city councils, boards of supervisors, and other decision-making bodies.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, organizational and time management skills, and flexibility to work on a multitude of diverse projects.
• Effective problem-solving abilities, and exceptional writing and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with members of the project team and ensure performance of internal technical teams and subcontractors.

• Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.