Environment Data Specialist II

Company Description

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Job Description

AECOM
is seeking a Graduate Environmental Data Specialist with 2+ years of experience to support our enterprise environmental data management system (EarthSoft EQuIS). The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of environmental data and terminology, good communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This position offers the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule including both in-office and remote work options. We have office locations in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban South Africa.

This role includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:

Role and Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate will be able to understand requests from environmental subject matter experts.
• Be a good communicator able to share new functions and features with the users and have a good understanding of environmental data and environmental data terminology.
• Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
• Prepare and update environmental associated reports sound in understanding environmental data, transforming, and analyzing large and diversified environmental datasets.
• Ability to translate environmental problems through digital and data solutions. Commitment to data quality at all levels and scales.
• Experience in developing custom reports and user-requested queries and views on various platforms of the desired skill set.
• Responsive to client (user) requests. Excellent communication skills
• Provide technical support to field sampling teams and act as a liaison between the project staff, analytical laboratory, data validator, and GIS analysts.
• Research state and federal regulations necessary to manage action levels or clean-up criteria.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications & Skills/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental/civil/chemical engineering or science in a related discipline (or similar subject) desirable with a required focus on Environmental Data and 2+ years of experience working in the environmental domain and preferably have relevant experience with environmental data.

Skills/Experience Required:

• Ability to understand data management using excellent computer skills to perform transformations in spreadsheets and databases.
• Expertise and experience with environmental data and database systems (MS SQL Server, MS Access). Expertise with relational databases such as EarthSoft's Environmental Quality Information System (EQuIS) /EIM/ ESdat. Ability to continually analyze data at all stages for problems, logic, and consistency concerning field data collection, analytical reporting, and other expertise on EQUIS sub-tools (Collect, Edge, ArcGIS highly desirable but not essential).
• Assist projects globally and task delivery with high quality and within deadlines. Managing data (geological, Field data, chemical laboratory data) for technical report writing and interpretation as required by the team. Maintaining and updating various project dashboards using the web-based EQuIS Enterprise system; and preparing report-ready data tables, charts, and figures for internal review and external client reports.
• Use of visualization tools like Power BI to help management make effective decisions for the environmental domain is desirable but not essential.
• Programming and/or coding experience (e.g., Python,R) a plus.
• Data engineering, AI/ML, and Data science understanding is highly desirable but not essential. Can be in either academic or work experience.
• Intermediate to the expert level understanding of Office 365, Excel, power query & Power automation.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, judgment and problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable running meetings and presentations
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Preferred Requirements:

• Master's degree in environmental/civil/chemical engineering or science in a related discipline (or similar subject) desirable with a required focus on Environmental Data.
• Minimum of 2 – 5 years of experience working in the environmental domain and preferably have relevant experience with environmental data.

Additional Information

About AECOM

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 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:
REF44778Z

Business Line:
Geography OH

Business Group:
DCS

Strategic Business Unit:
Enterprise Capabilities

Career Area:
Engineering

Work Location Model:
Hybrid