Job Description

AECOM is actively growing the NYC/NJ Transportation Planning practice and is seeking a creative, highly talented Senior Environmental Planner / Permitting Specialist for **** environmental review projects within the Transportation Business Line. The successful candidate will oversee and prepare National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR), Executive Order No. 215 (EO215), City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), CEDs environmental review documents for major infrastructure projects within NJ and NYC. The successful applicant will join a team of existing AECOM Planning specialists to assist in project delivery.

This is a hybrid office/remote role which will be based out of our NJ office, with opportunities to work in our NYC office. Our Senior Environmental Planner is a newly created role to handle our growing business of NEPA, SEQR, CEQR and EO215 reviews for infrastructure projects in New York City, New Jersey and in the East Region. In this role, you will support the New York Metro Planning Manager for Impacts, Assessments & Permitting (IAP) with our Planning Department in managing transportation projects and client relations.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Manage and perform consulting projects to scope, schedule, and budget, learning and applying AECOM’s project management systems and software. The candidate will accelerate through AECOM’s in-house Project Management certification program within the first year of employment.
• Serve as an interface with clients and regulatory personnel on complex projects and through business development initiatives.
• Coordinate, manage, and direct project field and data collection efforts.
• Prepare regulatory permit applications.
• Prepare permitting for wetland delineations and Land Use.
• Perform client visits and field activities that require work outside the office and evening meetings.
• Develop, manage, and deliver business strategy and tactics, high-quality proposals, interdisciplinary teams, and documents and report deliverables.
• Proactively enforce a culture of producing high-quality work and the importance of Health & Safety within the team.
• Provide technical support to the IAP Department and individual Project Managers and support inter-disciplinary business development activities.
• Collaborate with other AECOM offices, practices, and business lines.
• Support design-bid-build and design-build projects.
• Stay up-to-date on new technologies and industry trends.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Natural Resources, or an earth science-related field or relevant degree with a focus on transportation plus six (6) years of experience of demonstrated equivalency of experience and / or education or demonstrated equivalency of experience and education

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of industry experience, preferably with CEQR/SEQR/NEPA/EO215
• Experience developing regulatory permit applications is required
• Master's degree is beneficial
• Certification in project management (i.e., - PMP or similar)
• Current AICP certification or PE License
• Experience managing multidisciplinary projects and teams, including sub-consultants
• Strong client relationship-building skills
• Existing, mature, and tested client relationships
• High degree of self-motivation and the ability to work independently with limited supervision, as well as in a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including both oral and written (writing sample required)
• Strong leadership skills
• Organizational management skills and ability to perform detail-oriented work.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.

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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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