Senior Environmental Advisor

About Laing O’Rourke

Laing O’Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with 70 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure, including nearly two decades under the Laing O’Rourke banner. The business delivers projects as diverse as the environments in which they are built, from high security military bases and major rail transport infrastructure projects, through to landmark buildings at the transport interface. Laing O’Rourke owns Australia’s fourth largest plant and equipment hire company called Select Plant Australia. We know the right culture combined with purposeful technology will help us meet demand and deliver certainty for our clients. That’s the #powerofexperience.

About the project

The Princes Highway is an important part of the National Highway network, linking Melbourne, Gippsland and South East New South Wales (NSW). It is a major transport route for tourist traffic bound for the Gippsland Lakes, the high country and the south coast of NSW and supports key regional industries including dairy, grazing, timber, paper, and coal and gas production.

The Princes Highway East Duplication will add 43kms of new lanes to the Princes Highway between Traralgon and Sale and is being delivered in three stages. Stages 1 and 2 are already complete. Stage 3 for the remaining two sections at Flynn and Kilmany will add an extra 12km of lanes in each direction, delivering a total of 43km of duplicated highway across the entire project.

Laing O’Rourke will manage the design and construction of the Princes Highway East Duplication - Traralgon to Sale (Stage 3) - Kilmany Section (PHEK).

We are currently seeking a Senior Environmental Advisor to join the Princes Highway East Project.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for coaching, mentoring and promoting excellence in project environmental matters, delivery of environmental programmes and initiatives on the project, provide advice to supervisors, project management team, employees and other project stakeholders.

About you

• You will have relevant tertiary qualification in Environmental Science along with an intermediate level of experience, having worked on construction projects in Australia.
• You will also be required to demonstrate basic environmental risk management capabilities within a major infrastructure project environment. You will be required to keep abreast of environmental legislation, compliance and reporting requirements and be able to assist in the identification of significant factors affecting the project design.
• You will have an exceptional energy and drive to grow yourself and the company you work for and radiate a passion and determination to succeed and acts at all times in accordance with Laing O'Rourke guiding principles and values which means working collaboratively as One Team across businesses, teams and functions and behaving with integrity in all dealings with others.
• We are looking for someone who actively promotes continuous improvement and innovation and seek to learn from experiences of self and others to find better ways of doing things.

Benefits

We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, family friendly work practices, additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. We recognise the increasing importance of flexible work arrangements and family friendly work practices to enable and maintain a diverse, adaptive and high performing workforce.

Laing O'Rourke is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.