Air Quality Permitting Engineer

Job Description

AECOM is actively seeking an experienced Air Quality Permitting Engineer to join our Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Air Quality Compliance team in the Bay Area. The primary emphasis of the group is to support clients with their air quality and regulatory compliance needs for a variety of industrial, federal, and municipal, and private-sector clients.

The Air Quality Permitting Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining client relationships; managing complex environmental compliance projects and programs; and mentoring and developing junior air quality staff. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience managing clients in California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area, and along the West Coast, as well as the ability to utilize his or her air quality experience to help our clients navigate their environmental compliance challenges.

Qualified candidates will have excellent analytical, writing, presentation and managerial skills, with a background in air quality and Bay Area Air District permitting and compliance.

Please note: This position is contingent on AECOM contract award.

• Supporting EHS business development efforts, including preparation of technical and cost proposals, to grow our environmental compliance work with existing and new clients.
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with clients to enhance client retention and growth.
• Managing projects which include preparation air permitting, air emission inventories, ambient air sampling, and other air quality compliance projects
• Research, review, and analyze air quality policy and regulations.
• Support regulatory compliance tasks relating to air quality
• Mentoring junior staff and leading project teams for environmental compliance work.

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 environmental firm, and we want you to succeed within it. We respect and encourage your own pathway to excellence via our Freedom to Grow initiative.

AECOM is known for our award-winning technical excellence, leading-edge science and innovative project delivery. We provide sustainable solutions for some of the world’s most challenging issues. Our global clients and their projects span a variety of market sectors and geographies and require innovative technical solutions to solve wide-ranging environmental problems.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant science or engineering discipline.
• 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education of air quality experience in the Bay Area Air District.
• Valid US Driver’s License and pre-employment driving record verification is required.
• Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required.

• Master’s degree in chemical, mechanical, or civil/environmental engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education of air quality experience in the Bay Area Air District.
• 5+ years of project/program management experience directly related to environmental compliance projects from proposal development through completion for an environmental consulting firm (i.e., developing proposals/cost estimates, managing clients, projects, and project teams; coordinating resources and managing subcontractors; etc.).
• Certification by a California air district as a permitting professional.
• Practicing knowledge of current generation air quality models: including AERMOD, HARP, and/or CalEEMod.
• Extensive experience in Title V/PSD permitting and regulatory applicability analyses.
• Experience working with agency members at California air districts, such as SJVAPCD, MDAQMD, SDAPCD, SCAQMD and/or CARB.
• Understanding of local, state, and federal air quality rules and regulations including district regulatory programs, MACT/BACT/LAER requirements,…