Senior Environmental Advisor

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way. 

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

North Western Program Alliance (NWPA) consists of five Alliance partners – John Holland, KBR, MTM, V/Line and the client (LXRP), working together as one team to achieve shared goals.

Since 2017, NWPA has had a proven track record with the successful delivery of eight level crossing removal projects (13 LX) and several premium stations, with two projects currently in delivery (4 LX) and three in development phase. 

We’re proud to make a real difference to the lives of people on our program of works and in the communities in which we operate. Our values are Care, Excellence, Creativity and Empowerment.  

We're currently seeking a Senior Environmental Advisor to be based at our Sunshine (Albion) office.

• Perform a client-facing and inter-alliance facing environment decision making role
• Inform and be consulted on planning decisions that impact delivery
• Provide and take leadership responsibility in site environmental management.
• Lead environmental management and investigations, including coordination of environmental investigation scopes such as baseline water quality monitoring and contamination testing balancing requirements
• Coordinate the work and performance of multiple work crews and subcontractors to achieve outcomes.
• Work with site engineers to ensure high quality work packs are generated for field works.
• Contribute to development of work methods and rolling short term construction programs and plan daily/weekly production work.
• Maintain effective consultation with various workers’ representatives and committees on industrial and safety subjects handling issues as they arise and referring major issues to the Project Manager.
• Ensure Environmental administrative requirements are met including uploading of information into Project Pack Web (PPW) and Soteria.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable legislative and compliance requirements. Assist Workplace Leaders, Workplace Managers and Workforce in understanding their legislative obligations.
• Consult with workers to identify opportunities for efficiencies and streamlining of environmental processes, striving to be a leader within the industry.
• Gather and listen to feedback from stakeholders and peer groups on ways to improve environmental programs.

• Tertiary qualifications in Environment or a related discipline.
• Bachelor of Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Law or Planning
• Technical competency and understanding of all environmental aspects, including dust, vibration, ecology, contamination and heritage.
• Skill in review of planning and environment approvals, commercial agreements, interface agreements, design documents, ability to understand drawings, provide constructability review and implement final design plans.
• People and Performance Management of subcontractors, suppliers and direct labour.
• Strong aptitude for understanding practical delivery risks and planning approval condition risk upon delivery
• Strong aptitude for contamination investigation and management
• Environmental works including, but not limited to, contaminated land management, arboriculture works, heritage obligations, landscaping and civil works.
• Other associated works such as excavation and trenching, activities impacting erosion and sediment control, and hazardous substances and dangerous goods management (including storage, use, transport and disposal).

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

• Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
• Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
• Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
• Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
• Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
• Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.