Environment Impact Assessment Professionals in Sydney

Company Description

Come grow with us. AECOM's environmental practice is dedicated to helping industries, clients and governments meet their environmental responsibilities while protecting the natural environment. We provide advisory and technical services to ensure compliance, manage impacts, and reduce risks, including obtaining permits and approvals, post-approvals and environmental management advice, decommissioning and restoring contaminated sites, and tackling climate change challenges and resilience.

We are a passionate team of environmental impact assessors working within an organisation creating meaningful change both in Australia and around the globe. Our team is made up of twenty-two environmental impact assessors across Sydney and Newcastle and due to recent project wins we are growing. We are looking for professionals who will lead environmental impact assessments for projects across transport, renewable energy, transmission, water, and industrial sectors.

Our enviable EIS portfolio includes Sydney Metro EISs, Great Western Highway Blackheath to Little Hartley EIS, the first offshore wind farm EIS in Australia; longest road tunnel EIS in Australia and the first place-based EIS for an infrastructure project in NSW.

Job Description

We are looking for experienced environmental planning and approvals professionals across a range of seniority levels to join our growing team. You will support the delivery of timely, high-quality environmental impact assessments, constraints analyses, strategic assessments and environmental management plans across a diverse portfolio of transport, energy and infrastructure projects. Beyond project delivery, we are particularly interested in individuals who bring a strong focus on client engagement, business development and growing trusted relationships within the environmental consulting market.

Depending on your level, you may contribute to identifying opportunities, expanding existing client partnerships, supporting work winning activities and helping shape the continued growth of our environmental approvals capability. You will also assist in coordinating resources, budgets and timelines to support successful project outcomes and team performance.

Qualifications

The qualities that help you thrive:

• Experience in environmental planning, approvals and environmental consulting, ideally across transport, energy and infrastructure sectors in NSW.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver projects, build client relationships and contribute to business development and growth opportunities.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, with experience mentoring or supporting teams viewed favourably.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in environmental science, environmental planning, environmental engineering, town planning or a related discipline, with professional accreditation viewed favourably.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options.
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year.
• Swap public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better.
• Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.

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.

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.