Job Description
Senior Environmental Consultant - Impact Assessments & Approvals
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Gas, solar, BESS, transport & development approvals already on the project list
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5-person Infrastructure team inside a growing almost 40-person consultancy
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Build from project delivery into PM, client ownership & eventually winning work
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As an Environmental Consultant / Senior Consultant -Approvals, join a Brisbane environmental consultancy where the next step isn't simply writing bigger reports.
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The opportunity here is to learn the whole job.
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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.
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And there's a genuinely valuable 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.
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The Role
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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.
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You'll:
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Support and increasingly manage environmental approvals across infrastructure, energy and development projects
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Prepare environmental assessments, referrals and approval documentation
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Build your capability across EPBC Act assessment pathways and MNES
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Coordinate inputs from ecology, heritage, hydrology, planning, social impact and engineering specialists
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Manage scopes, budgets, schedules and project deliverables as your experience develops
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Liaise with government agencies, clients and other project stakeholders
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Turn technical information from multiple disciplines into clear, defensible reporting
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Progress towards taking greater ownership of clients and projects rather than staying purely delivery-focused
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The Team
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The wider consultancy has grown tonearly 40 people, with complementary capability across environmental planning, ecology, landscape architecture and GIS.
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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.
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Experience
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Around 4-8 years' experience in environmental consulting, government or industry
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Environmental approvals / impact assessment experience
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Some working knowledge of the EPBC Act
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Environmental Science, Planning, Ecology, Environmental Management or related degree
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Strong technical writing skills
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An interest in developing your project management and client-facing capability
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You don't need to arrive as a finished Environmental Project Manager. That's partly the point.
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Salary: $120,000 – $140,000 + super, depending on where you sit within the Consultant / Senior Consultant range.

📌 Senior Environmental Consultant - Impact Assessments & Approvals (Queensland)
🏢 Alra
📍 Queensland