Climate Adaptation & Resilience Lead

Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let's get started.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a highly motivated Climate Adaptation and Resilience expert to join our growing coastal resilience team in our Virginia Beach, VA office to support and grow our Climate Adaptation and Resilience practice in the tidewater area and around the globe. We are looking for a technical expert with strong design and resilience strategy development skills to work with our multidiscipline teams and develop approaches to address issues related to climate change, sea level rise, coastal storms, intense and frequent rainfall, and other natural disasters. This position will focus on climate adaptation and resilience projects for local, state, and federal government agencies as well as other public and private sector clients.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinating with and leading multidiscipline teams consisting of planners, scientists, engineers, landscape architects, and economists on projects that include coastal and economic analyses, hydrologic, hydraulic, and hydrodynamic modeling, flood risk assessments, and flood risk mitigation designs.
• Leading resilience strategy development, as well as the development of conceptual, preliminary, and final designs of nature-based and hard infrastructure solutions to provide flood hazard mitigation for critical infrastructure and communities.
• Coordinating with state and federal agencies and project stakeholders to gain consensus and approvals for project implementation.
• Engineering design for climate adaptation and resiliency projects.
• Coordinating with technical disciplines including geotechnical, structural, civil, environmental, and architectural among others.
• Managing schedule and budget.
• Overseeing junior staff on tasks and deliverables.
• Coordinating with clients and internal staff to identify and mitigate critical project and program issues.
• Preparing and delivering presentations.
• Business development and growth of AECOM's climate adaptation and resilience market.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team 47,000 strong driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Water

With more than 3,200 Water professionals in all major markets throughout the United States and Canada, AECOM's Water business line leverages nearly a century of local, national and international project experience to provide today's municipalities, industries and governments with cost-effective solutions to their Water challenges. We deliver our services-from environmental planning studies to detailed design, construction management, and operations and maintenance-to a wide range of public and private sector clients. Our public sector work encompasses everything from small rural communities, to large urban centers, to agencies with regional responsibilities. Our private sector work includes assignments for multiple commercial/industrial sectors, including oil and gas, chemicals, power, food and beverage, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. https://aecom.com/markets/water/

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, with a minimum of 10+ years of related experience.
• Professional Engineering License.
• Demonstrated experience developing design plans, specifications, and climate adaptation and resilience strategies.
• Experience with coastal infrastructure projects.
• Proven business development experience; working with clients to provide resilient solutions; developing and reviewing proposals
• Minimum of 5+ years of Project Management duties such as monitoring budgets and scheduling for all tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Experience in tidewater area with coastal resilience projects.
• General understanding of Hydrologic and Hydraulic modeling and coastal flood risk models, including MIKE21, ADCIRC, SWAN, SWMM, InfoWorks, and HEC-RAS.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to think strategically.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct. effective client and agency presentations and written report preparation.
• Ability to work with a team consisting of several technical disciplines.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

This position does offer relocation assistance

This position does not offer sponsorship

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

Join us and let's get started.

ReqID: J10088461

Business Line: Water

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: East

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid