Contaminated Land Advisor

Just imagine your future with us

Aurecon is committed to creating an inclusive culture that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion - and we provide our people with flexible working opportunities.

We believe diverse teams enable us to solve our clients' and society's most complex problems in unconventional and distinctive ways. We offer flexible working as it enables all of our employees to balance work and life in way that works for them.

Aurecon is an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, as awarded by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia), and are a founding member of The Diversity Agenda in New Zealand. We also have a Reconciliation Action Plan and hold Silver Employer status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI+ inclusion. Across our company, inclusive leadership is role modelled from the top and is an expectation of all.

Our flexible way of working includes our flexible start and finish times, working from home, part time and job share options. Aurecon also offers 14 weeks paid parental leave, three weeks paid partner leave, and other health services and benefits.

If this is how you would like to work you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome people of all identities from all background and with diverse accessibility needs. We’re curious about your career path and how we can support you to be your best.

The Role

Aurecon is a market leading multi-disciplinary organisation specialising in the provision of professional design and management services. We have an energetic and expanding environmental and planning team that helps deliver these services, which includes a contaminated land team. We serve a broad range of companies and organizations, including industrial, commercial and government clients across multiple markets and geographies.

Looking forward, we have a challenging and expanding workload in the Contaminated Land Advisor Team. We have a number of opportunities at a range of experience levels (from mid to senior) providing specialist technical advice on large-scale infrastructure projects including Melbourne Airport Rail, within the energy market, defence, utilities and resources sectors. Many of our projects are multidisciplinary involving working with other environmental, planning, engineering and design specialists across the projects and at various stages of development and delivery.

What will you do?

Depending on your experience, expertise and interests, the key activities in these roles will include:

- Review design related documents to derive a contaminated land related scope of works
- Review progress of site investigation works / provide advice to field teams where required
- Assistance with preparing a range of contaminated land related deliverables (impact assessments, interpretive reports, environmental management plans, spoil reuse options assessments, etc)
- Engage with other project teams and articulate contamination-related scope, findings and any contamination related approvals or project delivery implications.
- Present and articulate contamination related ideas or strategies to our clients
- Where needed, review contractor tenderers in regard to their proposed spoil management approaches

What can you bring to the team?
- A tertiary qualification in environmental science, chemistry, engineering, geology or equivalent
- Experience undertaking environmental site assessments - including both fieldwork and reporting experience
- Demonstrated experience working effectively in a large team, and importantly, the ability to work in a diverse multi-disciplinary team, as our works often involve working with planners, environmental managers, environmental disciplines, designers / engineers and project managers.
- Knowledge of Victorian legislation and guidance in relation to the assessment and management of contaminated land on major projects
- Provide sensible / pragmatic advice in a timely manner
- Work independently where required with little oversight

About us

We’ve re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an international engineering, design and advisory company, but not as you know it

Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges.

We listen deeply and intently, which helps us see opportunities, possibilities and potential others can’t. Think engineering. Think again.

Want to know more?

You can learn more about what it’s like to work at Aurecon by visiting the careers section of our website.