Environmental Approvals Lead

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better 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.**

Our environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support 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 contaminates 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**:
As Environmental Approvals Lead you will guide and support our portfolio of high-profile clients through strategic planning, environmental assessments and approval pathways for exciting energy transformation, transportation, Defence and 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games projects.

You will contribute to strategic growth, technical excellence and innovation in multidisciplinary environmental assessments and management planning.

**What will you be doing**
- Lead strategic planning for high profiles projects to secure State and Commonwealth approvals
- Manage the delivery of complex approvals on major projects, including coordination of multidisciplinary technical teams, environmental impact assessment and approval processes
- Proven technical leadership and confidence managing multidisciplinary technical teams to identify risks, solve problems, communicate change through planning, design and approval processes.
- Provide technical advice and strategic planning for impact assessment and approvals across a diverse range of projects and environmental services
- Manage resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets (with support as required)
- Prepare proposals and discipline-related inputs for tenders or other business development activities

**Qualifications**:
**About You**
- Bachelor’s degree in Regional/Urban Planning or Environmental Planning, Science or Engineering
- Relevant environmental assessment and approvals experience in a consulting environment
- Project management skills, including schedule, resource and budget management

You will take pride in your professional approach and commitment to excellence, whilst maintaining the ability to enjoy what you do You relish your role as key liaison and confidante, always staying one step ahead.

Additional Information

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.