Environmental Planner

**Full Time Permanent Position**

**Band 6 - Salary Range $92,304 to $100,516 per annum + 11% Super + RDO**

**Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.**

**About Melton City Council**

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

**The Opportunity**

The team is also involved in providing internal environmental compliance advice for council’s capital project portfolio, city design and landscaping projects, and environmental reserve management.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide advice to Council business units regarding Council’s legislative responsibilities and obligations as they relate to biodiversity protection and management.
- Contribute to the protection of nationally endangered grassland, woodland and wetland communities and other local biodiversity assets within the City of Melton.
- Work to ensure compliance with planning permit conditions, including Native Vegetation Offset requirements, Weed Management Plans, and Construction Environmental Management Plans.
- Liaise with Commonwealth and State government agencies, non-government agencies, developers, and the community on a range of environmental planning issues.
- Undertake site inspections where necessary.

**About you**

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Tertiary qualification in Environmental Planning, Ecology, Conservation and Land Management, or related field with relevant experience or lesser formal qualification with substantial experience.
- Knowledge of the Victorian planning system (e.g. Planning and Environment Act 1987, Melton Planning Scheme) as it relates to environmental planning, including an understanding of native vegetation policy and procedures (e.g. Guidelines for the removal, destruction or lopping of native vegetation).
- Understanding of the Commonwealth _Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999_ and its implications for biodiversity management in the City.
- Understanding of the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (BCS), sub-regional species strategies and any other relevant State policy and legislations.
- Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.

**Culture and Values**

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture

**Benefits**

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:
Staff Benefits | Melton City Council
- 19 Day Month
- 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave **(As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks)**:

- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave **(Super is paid during parental leave)**:

- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact **Dr Lawrie Conole,** Coordinator Environmental Services on **9747 7227**.

To view the Position Description, click here.

Applications **must** include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role.

We encourage you to use the STAR approach when writing your responses to the selection criteria.
- Situation (Task) - provide a brief outline of the situation or task?_
- Action - what did you do in response to the situation or task?_
- Result - what was the result of your action?_

To address the Key Selection Criteria you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
- Successful applicants must comply with COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidenc