* Location: Geelong
* Statuses: Contract
* Duration: 2 years
About the role
Ready to influence projects while protecting and enhancing the environment? If you have a passion for sustainable outcomes that supports regional prosperity and Healthy Country, read on...
You'll provide specialist statutory and environmental planning advice to support the planning and delivery of Barwon Water projects with a strong focus on capital works. Working closely with project teams from the earliest asset planning stages through to design, construction and post‐approval compliance, you'll help ensure environmental, planning and heritage obligations are clearly understood, managed and embedded into project scope and delivery.
You'll lead and coordinate statutory approval pathways, including preliminary assessments, referrals and applications under relevant planning, environmental and heritage legislation. This may include briefing project teams on approval requirements and timelines, coordinating specialist environmental and heritage assessments, preparing and reviewing approval documentation, and managing post‐approval conditions to support compliant and timely project delivery.
Partnering with planners, regulators, Traditional Owner organisations, consultants and internal stakeholders, you'll act as a key point of contact for approvals processes, provide trusted advice on regulatory risk, and contribute to continuous improvement of environmental and approvals systems, tools and internal procedures.
This is a maximum term contract until 30th June 2028
You bring expertise in statutory and environmental planning and approvals, with a sound understanding of environmental and heritage legislation and how these requirements influence infrastructure planning, design and delivery. You're confident interpreting complex regulatory frameworks and translating them into clear, practical advice for project teams.
You have demonstrated experience working within the water sector or a similarly regulated environment, particularly in infrastructure delivery and the coordination of statutory approvals. You are comfortable engaging with regulators, councils and Traditional Owner organisations, anticipating approval risks and guiding projects through assessment, approval and compliance pathways.
You hold a relevant tertiary qualification in environmental planning, environmental science, ecology, botany or a related discipline, and bring a structured, proactive and detail-oriented approach to managing approvals, regulatory risk and compliance.
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