Environmental Specialist

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full Time - Fixed Term

**Salary**:$109,730 - $132,764

**Grade**:VPSG5

**Occupation**: Environment

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: 6711

**About the Role**
**This is a Fixed Term Position until 31st December 2025**

The Environmental Specialist supports operational activities by ensuring SRS meets environmental regulatory obligations and promotes sustainable practices. This role is more focused on day-to-day environmental operations, monitoring compliance, and ensuring continuous improvement in operational processes.

Reporting to the Associate Director, HSEQ and Risk, the role works closely with operational teams to provide guidance and ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into day-to-day operations. This is an operationally focused role that requires close interaction with field teams, leadership, and external partners.

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**Position Outcomes / Accountabilities**
- Compliance Monitoring: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of environmental legislation and ensure that operational teams comply with regulatory requirements.
- Risk Management: Actively contribute to risk management strategies, identifying environmental risks and mitigating them effectively within the operations.
- Sustainability: Champion sustainable practices in road maintenance activities, ensuring that operations are as environmentally friendly as possible.
- Project Support: Work with leadership teams to implement environmental actions within operational projects, ensuring timely delivery and regulatory compliance.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to enhance environmental outcomes.

**Key Selection Criteria**

The Department of Transport and Planning is seeking an experienced Environmental Specialist to integrate sustainability into daily operations. This role is vital in identifying and mitigating environmental risks while driving continuous improvement in environmental performance.

You will work collaboratively to enhance environmental strategies, ensuring compliance and sustainability goals are met. Strong problem-solving skills are essential, along with the ability to influence internal teams and external stakeholders to promote best practices. A solid understanding of systems for monitoring environmental compliance is required.

Success in this role requires adaptability to evolving environmental challenges and a commitment to achieving measurable sustainability outcomes. Resilience and a practical results-driven approach will be key in optimizing processes and reducing environmental impact.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- At least five years’ experience in a role with a strong focus on operational environmental management, preferably within the public sector or government services.
- Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Sustainability, or a related field.

**Desirable**
- Experience in supporting operational teams in achieving environmental compliance and improving environmental practices on the ground.
- Knowledge of road maintenance and construction industry standards or experience in a similar operational field.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

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**Applications close 11.59pm on Thursday, 27th of February 2025.**

Applications close Thursday 27 February 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 13 February 2025