About Seqwater

Seqwater is the Queensland Government Bulk Water Supply Authority, responsible for delivering safe, secure and cost-effective bulk water supply for over 3 million people across Southeast Queensland.

Seqwater is one of the largest water businesses with the most geographically spread and diverse asset base of any capital city water authority. Our operations extend from the New South Wales border to the base of the Toowoomba ranges.

We commit to delivering a high standard of customer service aligned to our strategic vision. We value working collaboratively with our internal & external customers to improve service delivery. 

About Your Opportunity

Reporting to our Manager Environment, you will lead the delivery of environmental and planning advisory, governance and assurance services. Working with capital delivery teams across the business you will promote and facilitate leading practice in environmental management planning activities. You will lead and undertake a range of specialist, governance and assurance activities including consultation, communication, and coordination to ensure consistency of approach and application across the Seqwater capital delivery programs of work.

Key responsibilities:

• Through the delivery of targeted initiatives, instil throughout Seqwater an appreciation of environmental management and support change in relation to improving performance in environmental and planning services and performance across the project portfolio.
• Lead and coordinate environmental activities in accordance with legislative obligations and support Seqwater to limit its impact upon the natural environment and protect key environment values.
• Provide expert advice and support to project leaders, promoting and facilitating best practices in environmental management to ensure compliance with Seqwater's environmental obligations and foster a culture of stewardship.
• Partner with the business to facilitate effective environmental risk management, enabling the appropriate risk management strategies to be developed, implemented, and regularly reviewed.
• Coordinate and ensure organisational visibility of project environmental approval status and regulator engagement and drive alignment with Seqwater IMS requirements.
• Provide governance, audit and assurance across the project portfolios with respect to environment obligations and compliance.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Tertiary qualifications in Environment Management, Engineering or Planning, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Considerable experience in State and Commonwealth approval processes for major projects.
• Experience in establishing and leading governance, compliance, and assurance activities.
• Experience in dealing with multiple government regulators and external stakeholders.
• Post graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline or specialist area (desirable).

This position will be offered as an individual TFR package with an attractive salary and is a permanent full time role.

Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check and may be subject to other medical/character requirements. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible. Each application will be considered on its merits.

For a more detailed preview of the work that you will be involved in for this role, feel free to take a look at the position description on our careers page - careers.seqwater.com.au   We also invite you to connect with us on LinkedIn and join our growing community of followers to see all the latest news and job opportunities as and when they happen - https://www.linkedin.com/company/seqwater/

If you are looking for an extraordinary career in which you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!

To apply

Submit your brief cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and your resume via the Apply button.

Applications close: 11:55PM AEST, Sunday 22^nd September 2024

For further information please email enquiries to recruitment@seqwater.com.au

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.