Senior CEQA/NEPA Manager
About The Position
AECOM is seeking a Senior CEQA/NEPA Manager for one of our offices in Sacramento, CA. This job is open to remote work. JOB SUMMARY This role provides critical oversight and coordination of environmental processes to ensure timely delivery of project clearances. This role supports the development, review, and quality control of CEQA/NEPA documents, while guiding teams and consultants to maintain compliance with regulatory standards. It also involves coordinating with technical disciplines, agencies, and stakeholders to align environmental deliverables with project schedules. This position is essential to keeping environmental approvals on track and aligned with broader project goals.
Requirements
- BA/BS + 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
Nice To Haves
- 10 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in environmental planning, environmental sciences, or a closely related field
- Graduate degree in environmental planning, environmental science, or a closely related field is a plus.
- Knowledge of federal (NEPA) and state (CEQA) environmental law and processes as well as other relevant state and federal laws and regulations
- Working understanding of fundamental project management concepts (e.g., scope, schedule, budget)
- Ability to analyze and review documents for consistency, clarity, and content and be able to present complex technical information in an easily understandable format and context
- Experience with highspeed intercity passenger rail, transit planning, or linear infrastructure projects
Responsibilities
- Coordinates to manage the environmental component of projects program wide, providing guidance, recommendations, document review, and schedule maintenance for all environmental clearance documents and processes
- Ensures timely and quality preparation of NEPA/CEQA environmental documents
- Attends weekly team meetings with various disciplines
- Assists in monitoring project scope, schedule, and budget
- Provides direction to regional consultants regarding Authority standards, quality, and expectations
- Verifies document content conforms with Authority standards, procedures, and methodologies
- Represents Authority environmental planning and NEPA/CEQA compliance needs
- Gathers, guides, and processes data and information generated by engineering, design, and operational, and other technical experts for use in environmental documents
- Provides other duties as requested
- Attends agency and stakeholder meetings
- Schedules and/or attends meetings with agencies for consultation purposes
- Attends stakeholder working group, open house, public hearings, or other outreach activities
- Tracks environmental schedule and deliverables against the adopted Authority environmental milestone schedule and prepares monthly progress reports on activities
Benefits
- AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
