Lead Ecologist

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

Our environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support us all. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts and reduce or even eliminate risks.

Our services help clients anticipate and manage the environmental impact at each stage of the project: planning and obtaining permits for new facilities; decommissioning, clean-up and closure of contaminates sites and surplus operations facilities; restoration for reuse; addressing critical climate - change issues; protection or restoration of habitats and water quality and the preservation of culture resource.

We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
The role of Lead Ecologist you will drive strategic growth, technical excellence and innovation in ecological assessments and management planning for exciting transport, energy and future-fuels projects.

Contribute your knowledge, skills and experience in fauna, flora and ecological communities, ecosystems and/or landscape function to multidisciplinary assessments informing planning, design and nature-based solutions for high profile projects.

This is a technical leadership role with potential for a combination of field and office-based work. In a high-performing team focused on ecological sustainable development and nurturing positive outcomes will find an opportunity to deliver ecological services in ways you enjoy most. Choose focus areas such as strategic planning, technical advisory, project management, field practice, impact assessment, management planning or navigating approval processes.

As a Lead Ecologist, you will support our Queensland-based team to deliver robust strategic assessments while working collaboratively with our national practice group and industry expertise from around the world to help solve our clients most pressing challenges.

Embrace new ideas such as remote sensing and digital solutions to realise efficiencies and help our clients address current and future challenges.

**Qualifications**:

- 7+ years of relevant ecological experience
- Applied practice supporting State and Commonwealth approval processes
- Experience in flora and fauna species and ecosystems of Queensland - Brigalow Belt, North Queensland and SEQ Bioregions advantageous
- Experience working in a consulting environment - highly advantageous
- Class C, open licence (essential) and experience with 4WD (preferable)
- Relevant degree qualification (Bachelor’s degree in Science, specialising in ecology/environmental science)
- Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), data management and remote sensing - advantageous

You will take pride in your professional approach and commitment to excellence, whilst maintaining the ability to enjoy what you do You relish your role as key liaison and confidante, always staying one step ahead.

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.