Environment Data Specialist
Cape Town, 7100, South Africa
Listed on 2026-01-01
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Engineering
Environmental Compliance, Environmental Engineer
Company Description
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Job Description
Summary:
AECOM is seeking a Graduate Environmental Data Specialist to support our enterprise environmental data management system (Earth Soft EQuIS). The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of environmental data and terminology, good communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
This position offers the flexibility of a hybrid work opportunity including both in-office and remote work schedules from one of our offices in South Africa. We have offices in Cape Town, Pretoria, and Durbin.
This role includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
Role and Responsibilities:
The ideal candidate will be able to understand requests from environmental subject matter experts.
Be a good communicator able to share new functions and features with the users and have a good understanding of environmental data and environmental data terminology.
Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
Prepare and update environmental associated reports sound in understanding environmental data, transforming, and analyzing large and diversified environmental datasets.
Ability to translate environmental problems through digital and data solutions. Commitment to data quality at all levels and scales.
Experience in developing custom reports and user-requested queries and views on various platforms of the desired skill set.
Responsive to client (user) requests. Excellent communication skills
Provide technical support to field sampling teams and act as a liaison between the project staff, analytical laboratory, data validator, and GIS analysts.
Research state and federal regulations necessary to manage action levels or clean-up criteria.
Qualifications
Professional qualification & Experience desired
Skills Required:
Ability to understand data management using excellent computer skills to perform transformations in spreadsheets and databases.
Expertise and experience with environmental data and database systems (MS SQL Server, MS Access). Expertise with relational databases such as Earth Soft’s Environmental Quality Information System (EQuIS™) /EIM/ ESdat. Ability to continually analyze data at all stages for problems, logic, and consistency concerning field data collection, analytical reporting, and other expertise on EQUIS sub-tools (Collect, Edge, ArcGIS highly desirable but not essential).
Assist projects globally and task delivery with high quality and within deadlines. Managing data (geological, Field data, chemical laboratory data) for technical report writing and interpretation as required by the team. Maintaining and updating various project dashboards using the web-based EQuIS Enterprise™ system; and preparing report-ready data tables, charts, and figures for internal review and external client reports.
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