GHG/Decarbonization Consultant
AECOM
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conducting projects in alignment with GHG accounting and reporting standards (voluntary standards such as the GHG Protocol, regulatory standards such as USEPA GHGRP).
- Managing and serving as the technical lead for Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions inventories, as well as Scope 3 value chain GHG assessments (screening level and detailed quantification).
- Applying a technical understanding of GHG reduction / decarbonization mechanisms and technologies such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, low carbon technologies, and new emerging technologies such as carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, etc.
- Developing GHG reduction target-setting approaches, including science-based targets.
- Developing GHG emission reduction initiatives, defining decarbonization strategies (corporate-wide and field-level), including strategy prioritization based on considerations such as GHG reduction potential, feasibility, and cost/benefit analysis.
- Demonstrated experience managing clients and supporting ESG and sustainability business development efforts, including preparation of technical and cost proposals, to grow our environmental compliance and sustainability work with existing and new clients.
- Demonstrated experience managing all aspects of the project from proposal through execution to close, to include financial and contract management (i.e., developing proposals/cost estimates, managing clients, projects, and project teams; coordinating resources and managing subcontractors; etc.).
- Ability to mentor junior environmental professionals to execute various client projects.
- Ability to communicate effectively to a wide-variety of audiences, including technical and executive-level.
- Direct experience in a consulting environment, including client-relationship management.
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 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.QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant environmental and/or STEM-based discipline.
- 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education with prominent GHG and decarbonization experience in the consulting industry.
- Conducting complex GHG inventories (i.e., organizations with many facilities, in many regions, non-traditional emission sources).
- GHG / decarbonization assessments across a range of industries and / or public sector organizations.
- Fluency with a wide range of GHG standards (such as the GHG reporting standards examples above, and other standards like the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), GHG offset protocols, or others).
- Experience with regulatory assessment and compliance.
- Scope 2 market-based assessment and calculations, including incorporation of renewable energy procurement methods such as off-site PPAs or unbundled RECs.
- Developing projections of future GHG emissions.
- Helping an organization develop appropriate and meaningful GHG reduction targets.
- Development and / or implementation of GHG reduction / decarbonization strategies.
- Fluency and experience with carbon markets (such as GHG offsets).
- Fluency with technical areas relevant to many GHG assessments and decarbonization projects, such as renewable energy, transportation infrastructure, construction projects, business structures, community engagement, or other.
- Fluency with and interest in other areas of sustainability performance (i.e., water, resource management, environmental justice).
- Familiarity with climate and ESG disclosure frameworks, such as CDP, TCFD, or SASB, for example).
- Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship is required.