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Job Description
The role of a Senior Environmental Scientist involves delivering discipline-specific outputs on both local and international projects, ensuring effective input from others. Responsibilities include working on detailed or routine environmental assignments such as studies, assessments, drawings, and reports. Key tasks include EIA/ESIA development, report writing, data review, supervision and mentoring, coordination, and acquiring baseline documentation. Additionally, the role involves signing local reports, documents, and forms as a registered Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) and leading Public Participation/Stakeholder Engagement. Importantly, this role requires interfacing with local clients and competent authorities, as well as collaborating with internal AECOM teams globally.
Technical Excellence
The successful applicant will work on a range of projects diverse in type and scale located in South Africa and abroad and will be expected to:
- Work effectively with international teams in a virtual environment.
- Become familiar with environmental legislation, triggers and procedures in international territories and countries.
- Coordinate small - mid-size project teams of discipline-led Engineer/Environmental Scientist/ Environmental Managers.
- Prepare project deliverables that are reviewed by senior team members.
- Provide specialised technical input into studies and assessments for the particular area of expertise and identify discrepancies in results.
- Follow existing or develops new environmental assessment procedures to facilitate high-quality, cost-effective work by self and others.
- Participate in and creates an interdisciplinary review of project deliverables, including modelling reviews and laboratory analysis.
- Gather and correlate environmental information and data using well-defined methods.
- Prepare technical specifications and performs work under the agreed-upon budget and schedule with little supervision.
- Apply legislative knowledge to project triggers and manage environmental risk.
- Coordinate with local Authorities for approvals.
- Solve problems encountered using knowledge, innovation and modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous works.
- Contributes to the area of expertise, providing proposed improvements to existing processes and deliver solutions where precedent may not exist.
- Perform technical quality reviews of environmental assessments, models and survey analysis, including documentation in project records by adhering to quality, occupational health and safety and corporate standards.
- Maintain and develop the highest level of technical skills and abilities.
- Use pricing and manages budget/schedule for innovative environmental enhancements.
Client Relationship Management
The successful candidate will be expected to:
- Attend client meetings as technical support to gather information and discuss project requirements, explain/ defend work, etc.
- Present solutions to clients in a professional and technically competent manner.
- Participate in the development and preparation of bids and proposals.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor of Science, Arts or Engineering from an accredited University
- Master of Science/Arts or Engineering preferred but not a prerequisite. Years of experience takes precedence.
- In South Africa professionally registered as Scientist with SACNASP and EAP with EAPASA.
- Knowledge of international legislation and funder requirements would be beneficial.
-The candidate will be supporting our global team in the US, therefore any knowledge with regards to NEPA and CEPA would be an advantage.
Additional Information
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 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.
