Title:  Environment Manager

About John Holland

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.

About the opportunity

John Holland is expanding significantly to reflect the enormous State and Federal Government investment into the Sunshine Coast over the next 10-15 years.

As part of this growth, we are looking to engage with established Environment Managers to work on major projects spanning Energy, Tunnels, Dams, Water and Transport Infrastructure.

About the position

Reporting to the Project Director and based local to the Sunshine Coast, you will ensure project compliance with relevant environmental legislation, regulations, contractual obligations and John Holland Health, Safety and Environmental procedures through the development, implementation and maintenance a project wide environmental management system.

Responsibilities of the role include

• Coordinate and provide day to day specialist environmental support to internal stakeholders, including Group and Regional Environment teams.
• Develop approval submission documents and implement conditions of approval
• Identification and effective management of environmental risks.
• Develop, manage and lead the continual technical improvement of project environment management systems.
• Proactively liaise with government bodies and professional organisations on environmental matters.
• Establish, monitor and report on key environmental performance objectives and standards for managing project environmental risks.
• Develop and implement project inspection, auditing and review processes.
• Communicate environmental roles and responsibilities, review project team environmental competencies and identify training/development needs.
• Manage environmental budget allocation as required to ensure environmental management is undertaken in a cost effective manner.
• Manage environmental consultants and subcontractors and the collection of environmental field monitoring information.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all relevant legal, regulatory and company environmental requirements, ensuring management and staff are kept informed of any relevant changes to project requirements.
• Manage and support the development of environmental team personnel in leading environmental practices and driving improvement.
• Provide training to staff on environment matters such as spill response, legal and other requirements.
• Assist in recruitment of environmental staff.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of John Holland environmental management systems.
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems and procedures.

To be successful in this role, you will have

• Bachelor Degree in Environmental Engineering, Science, Sustainability or other associated disciplines
• Post graduate qualifications advantageous, e.g. graduate certificate or graduate diploma in Environmental, Risk, Sustainability, Project Management or other associated disciplines.
• Construction environment management experience (5+ years)
• Generalist Environment & Approvals experience (5+ years)
• Knowledge of Federal, State and Local environmental statutes and legislation
• Knowledge of relevant management systems (quality and risk)
• Training and facilitation experience in high-risk environmental activities such as spill response
• Skill in quantitative and qualitative environmental risk assessment and development of risk controls and actions involved in delivery and implementation of projects.
• Skills in monitoring, reviewing, investigative review techniques, reporting and continuous improvement on performance, compliance and defects and/or non-conformance
• Expert understanding of incident investigations and reporting
• Ability to lead high level investigations involving multiple internal and external parties.
• Specialist environment management (5+ years)
• Leadership and management (5+ years)
• Environmental Management Systems AZ/NZS ISO 14001

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What’s in it for you

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.

We offer

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 it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.