Associate Director - Environmental Planner

at  AECOM

BOLD IDEAS BRING TRANSFORMATIVE SOLUTIONS.

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 environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support us all. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts and reduce or even eliminate risks.
Our services help clients anticipate and manage the environmental impact at each stage of the project: planning and obtaining permits for new facilities; decommissioning, clean-up and closure of contaminates sites and surplus operations facilities; restoration for reuse; addressing critical climate – change issues; protection or restoration of habitats and water quality and the preservation of culture resource.
Job Description
AECOM’s Planning team are seeking an experienced Environmental Planner with proven track record in the renewable energy sector. The ideal candidate will possess a robust network of industry contacts and a track record of successfully managing the environmental assessment and approval of large-scale renewable energy projects in New Zealand.
With high projected growth in the renewable energy sector there has never been a more exciting time to be in the energy industry. This is a fantastic opportunity to be actively involved in a high-performing team of planning, environmental and energy professionals and develop your career in a growing sector. As a senior practitioner you will be instrumental in enabling and growing the team as well as winning new work. Your experience with whole of life cycle project experience in renewable energy projects will be key to your success in this role.
Within our national planning team, you will be working with technical leaders across our environment business in statutory, spatial and policy planning, sustainability, stakeholder engagement and natural resource management. In addition, you will have the opportunity to draw on AECOM’s international planning networks and work collaboratively with colleagues throughout Australia and NZ on best practice planning, innovation and project delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 15 + years experience
• A degree qualified in Resource Management or Planning (or a suitable related field)
• Full NZPI membership or eligibility
• Proven experience in environmental planning within New Zealand’s energy sector, ideally with a focus on renewable projects.
• Possess a robust network of industry contacts and a track record of successfully managing large-scale renewable energy and other infrastructure projects in addition to winning new work
• Demonstrated technical experience in areas such as infrastructure planning, policy and land use planning, statutory RMA planning, public engagement, project management, strategy, business cases.
• Experience in preparing and presenting expert evidence
• Excellent analytical, writing, communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and deliver quality technical analyses and reports
  Additional Information

• Maintaining, cultivating, and developing key client relationships
• Identifying and evaluating new business opportunities and market trends in the renewable energy sector.
• Preparing and managing consent and statutory approval applications and major environmental assessments, working on a range of technical documents, including consent strategies, assessment of alternatives/Multi Criteria Analysis and client advisory
• Providing planning advice on local, regional and national planning policy
• Supporting the delivery of urban, environmental and infrastructure projects