Principal Consultant, Geosciences and Remediation

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.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

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

We will give you 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
Our established Geoscience and Remediation Services (GRS) group is looking for a Principal level consultant with a strong Environmental background to join our well-established team in Perth.

As part of this role, you'll be part of an ambitious team using all your technical and commercial skills, knowledge and experience to oversee the delivery of contaminated land assessment and remediation projects. You’ll be comfortable working with a high degree of independence to ensure technical quality and adherence to budget and programme. You’ll also be involved in business development by being active in client management activities including prepare fee proposals for external and internal clients.

As a highly experienced member of our team, you will provide guidance and mentoring to our upcoming professionals, whilst leading and delivering a range of programs designed to provide progressive project solutions for our clients. This role will see you communicating with clients, preparing reports, leading field work teams, liaising with subcontractors, preparing tenders and promoting innovative solutions for your clients.

You could be working on:

- Contaminated site investigations
- Remediation, surveillance and validation works
- Waste classification and beneficial reuse assessments
- Significant, relevant industry experience, preferably working within a consulting environment
- Demonstrated experience in contaminated land management and environmental site assessments
- Experience in managing complex projects
- Experience in upstream and downstream oil and gas projects - desirable
- You will pride yourself on your ability to provide high quality interpretive and technical reporting and will be confident around the engagement and management of subcontractors.

**Qualifications**:

- Wide range of experience, knowledge and skills in contaminated land assessment and management
- Strong understanding of contaminated land assessment regulations and guidance
- Ability to scope and cost contaminated land assessments in a commercial environment
- Previous hands on experience within field investigation, including site management, drilling supervision, collection of groundwater and vapor samples, or the supervision of remediation activities.
- Development of robust conceptual site models.
- Qualitative and/or quantitative risk assessment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to write clear and concise technical reports and documents.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with team members and clients
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong problem-solving and inter-personal skills
- Confidence to make decisions and justify them
- Ability to work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and clients in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Willing to travel within Western Australia
- CenvP status or on track to achieve it within next 6-12 months

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