Principal Environmental Planner / Scientist - Impact Assessment and Permitting

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future

Our environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support us all. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts and reduce or even eliminate risks.

Job Description

With our incredibly strong project pipeline of truly transformational energy and transport projects we are seeking a Principal Environmental Planner / Scientist to join our ‘Impact Assessment and Permitting’ Environmental team in Sydney.

We take our Sustainable Legacies goals very seriously and continuously strive for a positive, lasting impact on people and our planet. To achieve our Sustainable Legacies Strategy, we have embedded environmental, social and governance principles into everything that we do whether that be through improving social outcomes, achieving net zero, enhancing governance or embedding sustainable development and resilience across our work.

Being part of the team at AECOM means you will use your knowledge and expertise to influence positive environmental outcomes on projects. Environment, Social and Governance is embedded in everything we do, and our Environment team regularly works closely with designers and engineers to drive real change at the genesis of a project.

Some of your duties will include:

• Mentor junior and mid-level consulting staff to develop their skills in the environmental planning and approvals technical area.

• Working directly with AECOM’s design and engineering teams to achieve positive environmental outcomes.

• Identifying individuals with high potential and enable them to quickly progress their careers with AECOM.

• Develop new client relationships and expand existing relationships through timely delivery of projects, value for money and quality service.

• Lead high profile, major infrastructure assessment projects.

Qualifications

We are looking for an experienced professional who can lead the delivery of timely, high-quality environmental impact assessments, constraints analyses, strategic assessments and environmental management plans and assist in the organisation of resources, budgets, and timelines for the management of these projects.

For this Principal position in our team, we require someone with:

• Extensive consulting experience in NSW, with demonstrated technical, commercial and delivery acumen.

• Superior project management and project delivery skills, including time management and organisational skills.

• A high level of technical competence in environmental planning and approvals, due giligence and land use planning.

• REAP Certification, or eligible for REAP certification and currently seeking REAP certification.

• Industry recognition as a leader in ‘Impact Assessment and Permitting’ with well-established industry networks.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

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.

ReqID: J10102176

Business Line: Environment

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ANZ

Career Area: Planning

Work Location Model: Hybrid