Principal / Senior Environmental Scientist (Singleton) Mining

The Senior or Principal Environmental Scientist plays a critical role in advancing Xenith's environmental leadership by providing expert technical guidance and fostering innovation. This role upholds Xenith's key values of Client Value, Team Culture, and Technical Excellence while driving continuous improvement and maintaining the highest standards of ethics, honesty, and quality. The Senior or Principal Environmental Scientist also supports the development of junior staff through mentoring and training, ensuring excellence across all environmental projects and initiatives.

Key responsibilities

Oversee the successful delivery of environmental consulting projects, ensuring adherence to budgets, schedules, and quality standards

Maintain a minimum target of 70% utilisation by working on assigned revenue-generating projects

Produce quality outputs that meet allocated budgets and performance targets

Provide commercial oversight of proposals, contracts, and project delivery models

Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early and implement mitigation strategies

Build, maintain, and strengthen trusted-advisor relationships with clients and key stakeholders, including regulatory agencies and government representatives

Ensure delivery of high-quality, value-adding environmental solutions that exceed client expectations

Act as a senior point of contact for client escalation, ensuring timely and effective resolution

Identify, qualify, and pursue current client opportunities to expand the client base

About the role

The Senior or Principal Environmental Scientist plays a critical role in advancing Xenith's environmental leadership by providing expert technical guidance and fostering innovation.



This role upholds Xenith's key values of Client Value, Team Culture, and Technical Excellence while driving continuous improvement and maintaining the highest standards of ethics, honesty, and quality. The Senior or Principal Environmental Scientist also supports the development of junior staff through mentoring and training, ensuring excellence across all environmental projects and initiatives.

Key responsibilities

- Oversee the successful delivery of environmental consulting projects, ensuring adherence to budgets, schedules, and quality standards

- Maintain a minimum target of 70% utilisation by working on assigned revenue-generating projects

- Produce quality outputs that meet allocated budgets and performance targets

- Provide commercial oversight of proposals, contracts, and project delivery models

- Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early and implement mitigation strategies

- Build, maintain, and strengthen trusted-advisor relationships with clients and key stakeholders, including regulatory agencies and government representatives

- Ensure delivery of high-quality, value-adding environmental solutions that exceed client expectations

- Act as a senior point of contact for client escalation, ensuring timely and effective resolution

- Identify, qualify, and pursue new client opportunities to expand the client base





- Maintain rigorous quality-assurance frameworks across all environmental deliverables

Additional Responsibilities at Principal Level

In addition to the Senior Environmental Scientist responsibilities, a Principal Environmental Scientist will be expected to:

- Provide technical leadership across complex environmental assessments, approvals and advisory projects.

- Lead senior technical reviews and provide final technical approval where authorised and within their expertise.

- Develop and maintain strategic client relationships and actively generate new business opportunities.

- Build capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing and improvements to technical standards and delivery processes.

- Work with business leaders to identify market opportunities and support sustainable growth.

About you

- Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science / Engineering / Planning or other relevant discipline

- 5+ years relevant experience (consulting / industry or government)

- Successful management of a site wide environmental management system

- Experience with Mining approvals, EA amendments and mine closures

- Direct engagement with environmental regulators and government agencies

- Excellent knowledge and a track record of performing a similar role and delivering results to client satisfaction

- Ability to consult and negotiate win/win outcomes and manage effective partnering relationships both internally and externally

- Flexibility to undertake short-term secondments and site visits from time to time

- Great communication skills

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📌 Principal / Senior Environmental Scientist (Singleton) Mining
🏢 Xenith Consulting
📍 Singleton