AECOM
10,000+ employees
Founded 1990
Construction • Engineering • Sustainability
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm that partners with clients to deliver innovative solutions to the most complex challenges while creating legacies for generations to come. Focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion, AECOM leverages technical expertise and digital innovation to drive transformative outcomes in infrastructure development, sustainability, and social systems. The company provides a wide range of services, including architecture & design, construction management, engineering, and environmental services across various markets such as transportation, energy, healthcare, and national governments. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, technical excellence, and community impact, AECOM is committed to building a better world.
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AECOM
10,000+ employees
Founded 1990
Construction • Engineering • Sustainability
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm that partners with clients to deliver innovative solutions to the most complex challenges while creating legacies for generations to come. Focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion, AECOM leverages technical expertise and digital innovation to drive transformative outcomes in infrastructure development, sustainability, and social systems. The company provides a wide range of services, including architecture & design, construction management, engineering, and environmental services across various markets such as transportation, energy, healthcare, and national governments. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, technical excellence, and community impact, AECOM is committed to building a better world.
📋 Description
• Leading wetland assessments and delineations, vegetation and botanical inventories, avian surveys, wildlife surveys, and Species at Risk habitat screenings. • Planning, coordinating, and safely executing environmental field programs, including logistics, supporting subcontractor co-ordination, field data collection, and QA/QC of field records. • Preparing and contributing to technical reports, baseline studies, environmental impact assessments, permitting documents, environmental management plans, monitoring reports, and regulatory submissions. • Interpreting field results in relation to applicable provincial and federal regulatory requirements, including requirements relevant to wetlands, wildlife, Species at Risk, migratory birds, and habitat protection. • Supporting proposal development, including technical approach, level of effort, assumptions, scheduling, staffing plans, and project experience write-ups. • Working with project managers to support project delivery, including scope planning, schedule coordination, budget tracking inputs, meeting notes, client communications, and deliverable coordination. • Collaborating with adjacent Environment disciplines as AECOM continues to grow its Atlantic ecology practice, including support for site assessment and remediation for contaminated sites (surface/groundwater monitoring and sampling, soil sampling, air sampling, Phase II ESA drilling and reporting) where appropriate. • Following AECOM Safety, Health and Environment requirements and quality management processes, and helping promote safe, practical, and high-quality field delivery.
🎯 Requirements
• Degree or diploma in biology, ecology, environmental science, botany, wildlife biology, or a related discipline. • 4+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrated equivalency, in environmental consulting, industry, government, academia, Indigenous-led environmental programs, or another directly relevant setting. • Demonstrated experience conducting wetland assessments and delineations (holds WESP-AC certifications), vegetation and botanical surveys, breeding bird or other avian surveys, wildlife surveys, and Species at Risk habitat screenings. • Working knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada, including provincial wetland and wildlife requirements and relevant federal requirements such as the Species at Risk Act and Migratory Birds Convention Act. • Experience preparing technical reports, field summaries, permit application support materials, or similar deliverables. • Experience supporting proposals, workplans, scopes of work, or level-of-effort estimates. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with clients, regulators, colleagues, and subcontractors. • Well organized, with strong time management, judgement, and attention to quality. • Valid driver’s license.
🏖️ Benefits
• medical • dental • vision • life • AD&D • disability benefits • paid time off • leaves of absences • voluntary benefits • perks • flexible work options • well-being resources • employee assistance program • business travel insurance • service recognition awards • retirement savings plan • employee stock purchase plan
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