Senior Biologist

• Legal Entity: AECOM Technical Services Inc
• Business Line:
  Environment
• Work Location Model:
  Hybrid
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  US - Honolulu, HI - 1001 Bishop St
• Compensation: USD 95,000 - USD 135,000 - yearly

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AECOM is seeking a highly talented Senior Biologist for immediate employment within our Environmental Planning and Permitting Group in our Honolulu AECOM office. This is a full-time, hybrid role.

This position will support transportation, military, and industry projects in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, including management of technical work on both federal and state permitting and compliance projects.

Primary duties include managing environmental aspects of projects involving regulatory compliance and permitting efforts for Hawaii and Pacific Islands Projects including federal (ESA, EFH, NEPA, 404/401) and state (HRS 343, 6e, NPDES, 195D) regulations, and preparing environmental documents and management plans in support of those consultations. Candidate will coordinate with state and federal clients to lead complex environmental and/or species-related permitting projects and participate in public review processes.

Candidate will contribute to growth of department through marketing pursuits including proposal preparation, interviews, and business development.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Prepare large, complex natural resources documents such as Biological Assessments, Environmental Assessments (EA) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). Operate as primary author or senior reviewer as appropriate.
• Manages projects/tasks that include all aspects of environmental analysis (e.g. state and federal)
• Manages projects with large-scale field efforts and intensive schedules
• Manages large-scale compliance projects requiring adherence to permit conditions
• Assists project managers in performing duties such as forecasting, tracking, accounting updates, invoicing, progress reports, and scheduling
• Reviews contracts for understanding of scope, fee, schedule, and deliverables, and all other contractual obligations
• Operates as primary point of contact for clients and resource agencies on projects
• Performs client management duties such as recurring status meetings, milestone check ins, and day-to-day interfacing
• Focuses on supporting career development of junior staff in the practice
• Successfully contributes to competitive proposals
• Participates in interviews with large or small team for a variety of clients
• Contributes to growth of practice through business development

Join AECOM to be part of an expert global team who is connected through a well-developed, worldwide, internal technical practice network through which you can learn from and brainstorm with the best in the world. AECOM is an industry-leading, world class…