Environmental Planner

Company Description

Work with us. Change the world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

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 supports us all. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts, and reduce or even eliminate risks.

Our services help clients anticipate and manage the environmental impact at each stage of the project: planning and obtaining permits for new facilities; decommissioning, clean-up, and closure of contaminated sites and surplus operations facilities; restoration for reuse; addressing critical climate-change issues; protection or restoration of habitats and water quality and the preservation of culture resource.

We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
**What will a day in this role look like**:
You will join a team supporting environmental approvals, strategy, and management across the broad sectors AECOM delivers for including, energy and renewables, water, ground and aviation transport and advisory. As part of a leading infrastructure firm, you will have the opportunity to develop your existing planning and project management skills whilst working closely with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technical specialists, as well as clients and contractors.

At AECOM you will be actively involved in a network of impact assessment and permitting professionals across QLD and Australia, enabling you to grow your technical capabilities and leverage relationships in other regions - including globally. You will use your communication skills to build and manage positive relationships with peers, clients, and stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation to support the growth of our business.

**Qualifications**:
What are we looking for from you?

+ Tertiary qualifications in Town/Urban/Environmental Planning

+ 5+ years of relevant, development approval and planning experience

+ Knowledge of Queensland and Commonwealth environmental and planning legislation

+ Adaptability and interest to work across multiple sectors and a range of clients

+ Consulting practice and/or demonstrated commercial acumen

+ Demonstrable project management experience - Advantageous

Join us and let’s get started.

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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

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**: J10097912

**Business Line**: Environment

**Business Group**: DCS

**Strategic Business Unit**: ANZ

**Career Area**: Planning

**Work Location Model**: Hybrid