Environmental Advisor

**Environmental Advisor**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe, and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

We value inclusive leadership and teams and celebrate the results of succeeding together.

But our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**About the role**:
The purpose of this role is to promote a greater organisational understanding of the organisation’s environmental obligations and the actions required to actively manage potential environmental impacts.

The role will lead the development, execution and monitoring of programs to uplifting environmental performance as well as identify, prioritise and sustainably manage environmental risks throughout our operations.

This role is the organisation’s key advisor on technical environmental matters including land management, waste management and stormwater protection across our large asset base and operational footprint.

The role will work across many areas of the organisation from construction, field operations, asset management, property and financial management teams; manage external technical consultants and engage directly with regulators and the community.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Provide effective technical support that focuses on implementing environmental risk management actions into our day to day business activities
- Review and update processes and procedures to deliver environmental outcomes
- Implement our environment improvement programs
- Conduct regular assurance activities such as site/field assessments and audits
- Ensure environmental incidents and issues are managed and investigations are effectively completed with learnings embedded across the organisation
- Educate and train our people in environmental obligations and updated processes and procedures

**To succeed in the role you’ll have**:

- Bachelor degree in environmental management, science or equivalent
- Strong work experience as an environmental management professional within the utilities, construction, oil & gas, or other relevant industry
- Experience in delivering environmental improvement programs and influencing internal stakeholders
- Experience with working with regulators and managing environmental investigations

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive, and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**
- If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us.**Job Segment**:Risk Management, Sustainability, Technical Support, Energy, Finance, Technology