Company Profile
Company Overview
EcoSystems Restoration Associates (ERA), a division of TCB, provides comprehensive Design-Build ecological restoration and natural resources management services that enhance and create self-sustainable habitats - including environments for threatened and endangered species. ERA includes four core practice areas: Ecosystems Restoration; Ecological Studies; Conservation Planning; and Biogeography.
Ecosystems Restoration: the restoration of ecosystems is a fairly new science. However, by using knowledge from other related disciplines - such as wildlife biology, soil sciences and agriculture – and applying proven methods and technologies, ERA is able to cost effectively restore ecosystems, thereby meeting the goals and objectives of public and private entities, and non-profit organizations. ERA provides Design-Build services which include the design, planning, implementation, construction, maintenance, and monitoring of native habitat restoration programs. ERA also owns and operates a 10-acre native plant nursery allowing our restoration ecologists to be in full control of the quality of plants under production and grow plants from known source locations. Our nursery also provides research opportunities particularly to investigate the propagation of rare and endangered plants for which knowledge is scarce or unavailable.
ERA’s Ecological Studies practice provides comprehensive wildlife and botanical surveys and studies. We specialized in large-scale, complex assignments where botanists, wildlife biologists, and biogeographers work together to provide statistically rigorous analyses than can be used for the sound management of natural and ecological resources. Areas of focus include ornithology, herpetology, entomology, and botany.
ERA’s Conservation Planning practice focuses on developing science-based land, habitat, and species management plans as well as conservation strategies. Our approach to conservation planning is a natural resource problem-solving and management process. We integrate ecological (natural resource), economic, and social considerations to meet private and public needs. This approach, which emphasizes identifying desired future conditions, improves natural resource management, minimizes conflict, and addresses problems and opportunities.
Biogeography is the study of the distributions of plants and animals in both space and time. The spatial component of biogeography attempts to describe and explain the distributions of one or more species. Biogeography may also try to elucidate the changing distributions of organisms over time, either in the short term or over geological time. ERA’s biogeographers are intimately involved in all of ERA’s disciplines and work side by side with restoration ecologists, wildlife biologists, and conservation biologists in determining the distributions of focal species, vegetation communities, and assessing the changes over time due to restoration practices. Using the latest GIS/GPS technologies, ERA is able to provide the highest quality products in this dynamic field.
Company History
TCB is the unification and grouping of three companies – Turner Collie & Braden, P&D Consultants and SURVCON – under a single corporate identity within the AECOM family of operating companies.
Through leveraging our combined strengths, the three companies within TCB will provide our regional markets with collective expertise in a broad range of services. These services include six core areas:
Government Services
Land Development
Natural Resources Planning
Public Works
Surveying
Transportation
With over 900 employees in the states of Texas, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Illinois, TCB is able to provide a blend of local and regional knowledge, innovation and technical excellence—expanding its reach across the country and around the world.
Benefits
We understand that benefits are an important part of total compensation and a key factor in attracting and retaining top talent. We also recognize the importance of building financial security for the retirement years, and AECOM has designed a program to assist employees in meeting their post-retirement financial goals. As a result, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits as a member of our team of valued employees.
Retirement and Savings Plans
Holidays
Paid Time Off (vaction and sick leave)
Medical
Dental
Vision
Education Assistance Program
Employee Assistance Program
AECOM provides basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and business travel accident insurance at no cost to employees. Employees can choose to participate, at their own cost, in the following benefits:
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Health Care Spending Account
Dependent Day Care Spending Account
Retirement and Savings Plan
The Retirement Savings Plan offers 25 investment options - including AECOM stock with the company matching a percentage, and 24 different mutual funds.
Holidays
We observe eight paid holidays per year, effective immediately upon employment.
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Our PTO can be used for vacation, illness, or personal business, and can be rolled-over into the next calendar year (up to 3 times your annual PTO accrual rate). Our PTO accrual schedule starts with 15 days per year for our full-time employees, and gradually increases every 5 years to a maximum of 25 days a year.
Medical
We offer several traditional medical plans and an Exclusive Provider Network (EPO). For our new employees and their qualified dependents, our medical coverage start on the first day of work, with no pre-existing conditions, limitations, or evidence of insurability.
Dental
Our employees may choose between two dental plans, with both providing paid bi-annual check-ups for covered members.
Vision
Our Vision Care Plan provides vision examinations, plus eyeglass frames and lenses or contacts.
Education Assistance Program
Our full-time employees may receive 100 percent reimbursement, up to $5,000 per year, for tuition and fees. Courses required to obtain a job-related or a business degree are applicable for the reimbursement, with supervisory and Human Resources Department pre-approval.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Provided at no cost to our employees, the EAP provides confidential and professional assistance to help employees and family members resolve challenges that affect personal lives or job performance.