Environmental Project Manager - AECOM

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AECOM is actively seeking an experienced Environmental Project Manager position in our Baton Rouge, Louisiana office to manage a variety of projects.  The primary emphasis of the group is to support key program clients with their environmental regulatory compliance and remediation needs.  

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Understand site investigation and remediation techniques to drive solutions for our clients. 

• Determine and define project scope and objectives. 

• Manages all phases of projects (from beginning to close out). 

• Predict resource needs and manage resources effectively. 

• Monitor project performance to identify areas for improvement. 

• Makes sound, well-informed and objective decisions with a strong understanding of the impact and implications of decisions. 

• May provide technical oversight and quality control. 

• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress. 

• Identify, mitigate, and manage project risks. 

• Advises/mentors less experienced staff on project management skills. 

• Data management, risk assessment and statistical analysis; data preparation and management such as organizing, tracking, extracting and summarizing environmental data and their sources.

• Manage a variety of projects with varying levels of complexity and size, manage scope, schedule, and budget for risk assessment and compliance projects.

• Building strong face-to-face client relationships, manage client and regulatory correspondence.

• Serves as staff team leader and supervisor: provide mentoring, guidance and coaching to new or less experienced staff, recruit and develop junior risk assessment scientists.

• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging USEPA, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and state regulatory requirements (Louisiana Risk Evaluation / Corrective Action Program [RECAP]).

• Execute a wide variety of environmental risk evaluation and compliance projects with minimal supervision while meeting cost, schedule, safety, and quality objectives.

• Regular travel is required to client sites as necessary.

• Prepare technical reports, letters, memoranda, workplans, proposals, investigative reports, and presentations; and

• Focus on team project delivery, taking direction primarily from supervisors and Project Managers.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree plus minimum of four years of relevant work experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• MVR and Drug Screening

• U.S. Citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Biology or closely related field

• 10+ years of environmental consulting experience.

• Minimum of 6 years of experience directly related to human health risk evaluations and associated submittal requirements and environmental multi-media environmental regulatory compliance (e.g. CERCLA /Superfund, RCRA, etc.)

• Professional certification - DAPT or other equivalent certification

• Participation in developing effective business proposals for providing competitive, high value environmental services.

• Deep fundamental knowledge of environmental regulations and consensus standards, including:

  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) – waste classification, management, and reporting;

  • Oil Pollution Act (OPA);

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA);

  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA);

  • Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)

• Ability to act independently on technical matters pertaining to environmental human health risk assessment and regulatory compliance with little to no supervision.

• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills; extremely proficient in technical writing; highly effective organization and multi-tasking skills.

• Ability to prioritize multiple demands, think strategically and successfully lead multiple simultaneous projects.

• Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, judgment and problem-solving capabilities.

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.

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