Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager

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AECOM is growing in northern California and seeking candidates for a Senior Environmental Planner/Project Manager opportunity in our Sacramento office. The successful candidate would partner with other leaders in northern California and our diverse team to engage with our expanding pool of public and private sector clients, and manage planning projects and associated environmental impact analyses, including CEQA compliance processes and documentation. The role would involve proactive marketing and business development, as well as coordinating with our Team to prepare proposals. May serve as a project manager, deputy project manager, task manager, or technical specialist, depending on the assignment.

While we anticipate that this position would focus on serving our growing public agency client base in northern California, the successful candidate should also anticipate having a meaningful voice in shaping our integrated environmental and community planning practice, which could include managing and mentoring of staff, helping to hone our strategic focus, and collaborating with other AECOM leaders and our clients to remain at the leading edge of environmental planning and community planning and design.

AECOM is seeking candidates with a demonstrated ability to understand our clients’ most important challenges and opportunities, manage environmental planning projects, develop proposals that speak to our differentiating qualities, and prepare deliverables that anticipate our clients’ needs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partner with other leaders in our integrated urban environmental planning practice on business development activities, including proactive outreach to public agencies and private clients in northern California.
• Generate proposals and, with other members of our Team, anticipate, track, and obtain new task orders from existing clients.
• Plan, execute, and deliver environmental planning documents that meet our high-quality standards in collaboration with a broad and diverse range of technical specialists.
• Manage projects through completion in accordance with defined scopes of work and budgets.
• Engage staff, assign project responsibilities, and successfully manage internal teams and subcontractors.
• Manage preparation of technical studies and environmental documents for completeness, clarity, accuracy, and defensibility.
• 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 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 with environmental planning and compliance, including CEQA and NEPA project experience.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with, and interest in urban planning, community planning, long-range policy planning, urban design, zoning, market feasibility, or economic development strategies.
• Demonstrated expertise in preparing and overseeing the preparation of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documents.
• Experience and interest in business development and client engagement.
• Effectiveness in presenting complex environmental documents to planning commissions, city councils, boards of supervisors, and other decision-making bodies.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, exceptional writing and communication skills demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with members of the project team, clients (in-person and virtually), and an ability to ensure performance of internal technical teams and subcontractors.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, organizational and time management skills, and flexibility to work on a multitude of diverse projects.
• Able to work both independently and as a part of a project team.

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

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits 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 absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, 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 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, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.

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