Title:  Senior Sustainability Advisor

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We've always known at its heart infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the 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, Stantec and KBR are partnering with Sydney Water in an Alliance to deliver the North-West Treatment Hub – a brownfield treatment program that will commence with a $500 million upgrade of Rouse Hill and Riverstone wastewater treatment facilities. The project will achieve circular economy outcomes, increasing recycled water production, improving the quality of wastewater byproducts for reuse, and leveraging innovative treatment technologies that reduce carbon footprint. Upgrades will support the treatment of a further 45 megalitres of wastewater each day, to cater for growing northwest communities. The Project will deliver a new state-of-the-art biosolids facility at Riverstone, with new technology to improve the quality of wastewater byproducts.

About The Role

Responsibilities Include:

Drive a culture of contemporary thinking and best practice across the project to address the needs of our customers and communities.

Assisting with the full range of sustainability initiatives across design and delivery, including but not limited to environmental resilience, resource use efficiency, supply chain resilience, climate change management, business resilience, and social innovation.

Promote the understanding of risks and opportunities related to sustainability across the project, ensuring well balanced long-term decision making is consistently applied. 

Ensure the necessary support (including resources of suitable levels of competence) is available for the effective implementation of John Holland’s sustainability requirements across the project and wider business. 

Develop and manage a team of sustainability professionals that are able and capable of leading contemporary sustainability approaches and practices.

Represent and advocate sustainable outcomes within the industry on behalf of the project. 

Develop and deliver sustainability training programs for relevant project personnel and contractors, and support sustainability management tools training.

Support the maintenance of strong relationships through collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders.

To be successful in this key role

 
Bachelor of Engineering, Science, Sustainability, Environmental management or other associated disciplines

Sound understanding of sustainability principles and application within the construction industry.

Construction or similar experience desired. 

Aware of sustainability rating schemes and standards.

Proficient in written and verbal communication and strong ability to influence and drive 

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