Title:  Environmental Manager

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We've always known that at its heart, infrastructure is about people - our customers, our employees, and their communities in which we work. 

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

Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good. 
 

About The Project

John Holland have been awarded to deliver the Parramatta light rail stage 2 - Enabling works project, the first part of this $322 million contract consists of the construction of the first 1.3km of new light rail alignment, including a 320m bridge over the Parramatta River between Melrose Park and Wentworth Point. Parramatta Light Rail Stage 2 – Main Works will connect Stage 1 and the Parramatta CBD to Sydney Olympic Park via Camellia, Rydalmere, Ermington, Melrose Park and Wentworth Point.
 

About The Role

John Holland is looking for an Environmental Manager to join our team on the Paramatta light rail stage 2. You may see yourself as a Senior Advisor wanting to step into a Managers role or alternatively be an established Environmental Manager looking to further their career in a key leadership role within a top tier contractor on major projects.

The role be accountable for managing and enhancing the environmental performance and ensuring compliance for all project works. As well as engaging and being a part of our wider Environment and Sustainability Infrastructure and Major Projects team providing strategic support and input across a number of projects. The role will be based in Rhodes NSW.
 

• Ensure John Holland adopts robust due diligence and risk management processes and understands and meets its regulatory and legal environmental obligations.
• Provide leadership, technical advice and input regarding tenders and existing projects.
• Work closely and build strong working relationships with our internal Environmental and Sustainability Senior Leaders across the Business.
• Coordinate and provide day to day specialist environmental support to internal stakeholders, including Group and Regional Environment teams.
• Develop, manage and lead the continual technical improvement of project environment management systems.
• Liaise with government bodies and professional organisations on environmental matters.
• Manage relevant reporting/KPI deliverables relating to environmental and sustainability targets.
• Prepare and review work packages, negotiate appropriate licences and approvals as required.
• Leadership, management and coordination of investigation and response to environmental complaints, incidents, non-conformances relating to site.
• Provide training to stakeholders on environment matters.
• Monitor, measure and evaluate environment performance in order to support the continuous improvement of John Holland’s systems and practice.

To be successful in this key role, you must have: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering, Science, Sustainability, or other associated disciplines
• Specialist environmental and sustainability experience within the Construction industry ideally within a Tier 1 Contractor
• Use of planning software & tools such as Primavera Project Planning, Earned Value and Cash Flow Analysis
• A minimum of 5 years Construction Environment Management experience / or significant Senior Environmental and Sustainability experience working across infrastructure projects and pre-contracts.
• Ability to lead high level investigations involving multiple internal and external parties
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to build effective and strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
   

We Offer

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