Location: Melbourne
About the Chance
Working as part of our national Ecology team, you will play a key role in further developing Umwelt's profile for ecological projects across Victoria and expanding our service delivery in this discipline. This will also involve promoting the Melbourne office ecology presence for Umwelt.
With support from the Regional Manager - Victoria and the Ecology Manager South East Australia, you will lead the Victorian Ecology team's direction and development, including identifying, winning, leading, managing and completing a wide range of ecological projects and taking ownership of all aspects of project delivery to provide a fully integrated outcome in a manner that maintains and enhances Umwelt's reputation.
You will have a strong business development function leveraging from Umwelt's strong ecology reputation and from your existing relationships and ability to form solid and lasting relationships with clients.
About you
We are looking for a Principal Ecologist who has the following:
Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field with 10+ years' relevant experience
Substantial ecological experience in one or multiple of the following sectors: renewables, infrastructure, defence, resources and extractive industry, or commercial development
Considerable consulting experience and/or a combination of consulting and client/regulator side ecology experience
Experience delivering biodiversity values and constraints assessments, rehabilitation monitoring, surveys, and impact and offset assessments
Experience leading ecology surveys, assessments, and reporting
Ability to develop and maintaining positive relationships with a range of stakeholders including peers, clients, and government agencies
Ability to work in a professional team as well as autonomously
Highly motivated with a solid team commitment
Willingness to support the development and implementation of the growth strategy for the ecology workstream in Victoria
Ability to prepare successful large tender/proposal documents
Knowledge of infrastructure and renewables sectors
Join the Team
To be eligible for this position you must have legal work rights to work in Australia._
📌 Principal Ecologist, Vic Melbourne
🏢 Umwelt
📍 Melbourne