Environmental Discipline Manager

Environmental Discipline Manager

• Take the next step in your career and join a diverse, highly skilled team of environmental and sustainability specialists.

We are renowned for working in partnership with our clients and partners to deliver exceptional outcomes based on our collaborative approach and our "One Team" values.

In Australia, KBR employs nearly 1200 people with offices in each state. Our track record, industry profile, and strong relationships with government and private industry have enabled us to grow significantly. This continued growth allows us to offer real opportunities for our staff in terms of career paths, technical development, and project exposure.

• The Opportunity

KBR is going through a period of growth with an existing strong pipeline of diverse, interesting projects for a range of clients across the country.

An exciting opportunity has opened to join KBR as a senior environmental practitioner and to manage our growing Environment & Planning Team in Brisbane. The team provides environmental assessment and planning services to KBR's local and national infrastructure projects. The key market sectors include Defence, Water, and Transport. However, the Team is looking for someone to help build new clientele, to help develop and maintain a healthy local environmental practice.

This role will lead and manage this growing team. We seek a leader to continue to manage the team, hire new talent, develop existing staff, and bring in new work and clients to our business.

The Environment Team Manager reports to the Operations Manager for Queensland. The role has functional reporting responsibilities to Water, Transport, and Defence Market Sector Managers to support local and national project requirements.

The role is based in Brisbane, with limited travel interstate expected from time to time.

• Key responsibilities of the role
• Demonstrate HSE leadership behaviours in our projects, discussions, and forums
• Ensure that KBR HSE and Quality Policies are understood and implemented in projects
• Consistently behave in a manner that reflects KBR values
• Recognise and celebrate examples of staff demonstrating KBR's Values.
• Provide input into engineering and design services tenders, including resource loading and activity schedules
• Formulate and implement strategic relationships with organisations that will assist KBR in expanding the Environment business.
• Promote KBR's environmental expertise in the marketplace such as by providing technical papers at conferences
• Actively maintain a technical reputation and relationships in relevant industry sectors;

PROJECT DELIVERY

• Lead and manage environmental specialists to deliver environmental consulting projects\
• Provide technical review and advice on team outputs, reports, and scopes of work,
• Deliver your own projects and advisory services, supported by KBR's project management office.
• Other requirements
• Graduate or postgraduate qualifications in environmental science, environmental engineering, or other relevant discipline
• Experience working within a consultancy environment
• Experience with managing teams
• Capabilities in authoring professional reports and deliverables
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Infrastructure Solutions Australia

We are committed to social and environmental sustainability and a safe and inclusive workplace. We strive to deliver our projects for our clients with excellence and to the high standards for which we are known.

Our people work together collaboratively to create a positive impact on the communities and the environments where we work. Our expertise and adaptability are unmatched and continue to meet the demands of tomorrow to help shape Australia's future.

In addition to working on some fantastic projects, KBR offers an array of benefits focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continual career development, flexible work arrangements, and work / life balance. Our culture and our genuine focus on our people is a major factor in our success and we want you to be part of our journey.

• Typical benefits include
• Flexible work arrangements (start / finish times, WFH, Flex time)
• Paid professional membership fees
• Established support networks for young professionals, with sponsored activity days, sports, and social events.
• Employee stock purchase plans
• Industry-leading salaries, reviewed annually
• Salary packaging and Novated lease options available
• Life / Health insurance discounts
• End-of-trip facilities