Senior Environmental Consultant - Impact Assessments & Approvals

• Gas, solar, BESS, transport & development approvals already on the project list
• 5-person Infrastructure team inside a growing almost 40-person consultancy
• Build from project delivery into PM, client ownership & eventually winning work

As an Environmental Consultant / Senior Consultant - Approvals, join a Brisbane environmental consultancy where the next step isn't simply writing bigger reports.

The opportunity here is to learn the whole job.

Initially, you'll be hands-on across environmental approvals, reporting and project delivery, working with senior people who can help build your EPBC and project management capability. As you become established, you'll take more ownership: coordinating specialists, managing budgets and programs, dealing directly with clients and regulators, and eventually helping bring projects through the door yourself.

And there's a genuinely good mix of projects to learn that on. The current workload includes two gas pipelines, a new highway bridge, a local government sports precinct, multi-lot residential developments, a BESS, two combined solar farm/BESS projects and two synchronous condensers.

The Role

You'll sit within a 5-person Infrastructure & Environmental Approvals team, working across projects from early environmental constraints and approvals strategy through referral, assessment and delivery.

You'll:

• Support and increasingly manage environmental approvals across infrastructure, energy and development projects
• Prepare environmental assessments, referrals and approval documentation
• Build your capability across EPBC Act assessment pathways and MNES
• Coordinate inputs from ecology, heritage, hydrology, planning, social impact and engineering specialists
• Manage scopes, budgets, schedules and project deliverables as your experience develops
• Liaise with government agencies, clients and other project stakeholders
• Turn technical information from multiple disciplines into clear, defensible reporting
• Progress towards taking greater ownership of clients and projects rather than staying purely delivery-focused

The Team

The wider consultancy has grown to nearly 40 people, with complementary capability across environmental planning, ecology, landscape architecture and GIS.

It's large enough to have specialists around you and a strong project pipeline, but still small enough that you aren't buried underneath layers of management. The culture is collaborative and relatively low-ego, with good access to senior people and flexibility around how you work.

Experience

• Around 4-8 years' experience in environmental consulting, government or industry
• Environmental approvals / impact assessment experience
• Some working knowledge of the EPBC Act
• Environmental Science, Planning, Ecology, Environmental Management or related degree
• Strong technical writing skills
• An interest in developing your project management and client-facing capability

You don't need to arrive as a finished Environmental Project Manager. That's partly the point.

Salary: $120,000 – $140,000 + super, depending on where you sit within the Consultant / Senior Consultant range.

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