**Company Description** **Work with Us. Change the World.** 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. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. 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. Join us. **Job Description** **AECOM** is seeking a **Mid-level Biologist** to support some of California's most exciting and important projects. We are seeking a motivated individual to join our group of more than 100 environmental professionals in northern California. This hybrid position will join our AECOM team based in Sacramento, CA. This position would support a variety of projects and clients in northern California, with a focus on field assessments and surveys, construction monitoring, and technical writing and analysis. **The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:** + Surveys for special-status wildlife and nesting birds. + Surveys for special-status plants and vegetation mapping. + Wetland delineation. + Monitoring of construction activities for compliance with environmental requirements and/or permits. + Preparation of reports documenting survey or monitoring results. + Preparation of other technical documents or permit applications. + Preparation of environmental compliance documents (CEQA/NEPA). + Participation as an active and positive member of AECOM’s Environmental Planning & Permitting practice. + Occasional travel in Central and Northern California may be required. **About AECOM’s Environment Business Line** 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 are diverse and interesting. They span market sectors and geographies and require innovative technical solutions to solve wide-ranging environmental problems within diverse community profiles. AECOM’s Sustainable Legacies program describes our approach to the environment, social equity and governance (ESG.) We embed sustainability throughout our business and help clients embed sustainable practices into their work. We help clients reduce their impact on the environment, achieve compliance and reduce risks. **Qualifications** **Minimum Qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree in biology, ecology, or a related field. + 4 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education in environmental analysis, habitat assessments, and biological surveys, wetland delineation, or related work. + Valid U.S. Driver License required (and must be able to safely drive to job sites). **Preferred Qualifications:** + 6 years of relevant biological experience. + Knowledgeable of common and special-status northern California wildlife and plant species is highly desired. + Experience surveying for special-status species that may occur in northern California, such as nesting birds, California red-legged frog, California tiger salamander, giant garter snake, Alameda whipsnake, and others. + Plant identification skills are desirable but are not required. + Wetland delineation skills are desirable but are not required. + Experience writing and preparing permit applications and other supporting technical documentation are desirable but are not required. + Experience with field data collection tools such as Collector, Trimble units, and others. + Positive attitude and is adaptable to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. + Highly organized with a strong detail-oriented work style. + Excellent oral and written communication skills. **Additional Information** + Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required. Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $70,000.00 - $87,000.00. **About AECOM** AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan. AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. **Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity** You will have 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 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. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** J10118698 **Business Line:** Environment **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** West **Career Area:** Science **Work Location Model:** Hybrid **Legal Entity:** AECOM Technical Services Inc