Environmental Planning Lead

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world.

The Transportation Group of AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented Environmental Planning Lead for immediate employment in South Carolina. This position offers flexibility to work from any of our four offices located in Columbia, Florence, Greenville, or North Charleston. You’ll be joining a collaborative team with excellent opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. We’re seeking an Environmental Planning Lead to guide our multidisciplinary environmental team within the Transportation division.

In this leadership role, you’ll manage environmental projects, lead project teams, oversee tasks, and contribute to the development of high‑quality environmental content. Responsibilities also include research, report writing, and data collection and analysis—providing you with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on transportation projects across the region.

• This position supports the environmental transportation practice and applies expert knowledge of the SCDOT environmental process, including milestone schedule management for the SCDOT Design Process and environmental documentation. The role involves applying this expertise throughout the project timeline—particularly on SCDOT projects—to ensure integration of engineering, agency coordination, and public involvement activities with the environmental process. This position may serve as the environmental lead or provide support as an environmental deputy program/project manager on DOT projects, focusing on the preparation of environmental documentation for project delivery.
  
  Additionally, the role includes leading and supporting client and agency consultations.
• Scheduling – Aligns project deliverables with engineering and project delivery milestones and recommends priorities, timelines, and funding sources to support the implementation of public improvement plans.
• Responsible for the assessment of environmental indicators which are incorporated into studies, environmental assessments, and statements that will generally be used to identify, abate, and eliminate sources of pollutants or hazards that affect people, wildlife, and environments; and to propose mitigation measures for the environmental impacts of newly built development or infrastructure.
• Works in program areas relating to natural/water resources planning, NEPA, community development, public outreach, hazard mitigation, noise, and others. Prepares basic data and scientific documents to include figures, technical reports, agency coordination, NEPA documents, and supports 404/buffer variance permit applications for authorization by state and federal agencies. Conducts research and prepares statistical reports on land use, physical, social and economic issues, and public involvement.
• This role involves preparing and performing QA/QC on environmental deliverables for transportation projects, including managing schedules that require coordination across interdisciplinary teams and ensuring updates based on evolving client or regulatory requirements. Additionally, the position guides clients through the permitting and environmental management process to secure necessary environmental clearances.
• Originates and performs technical approach, quality control, data assessments, report…