Environmental Coordinator

Job No: 495676

Work type:Full Time

Location:Perth, Regional WA

Categories:Health, Safety, Environment, Quality

Advertised:05 Mar 2025 W. Australia Standard Time

Applications close:06 Apr 2025 W. Australia Standard Time

**About BMD**

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business. As the largest privately owned civil contractor in Australia, BMD is at the forefront of excellence and its footprint expands globally to the Philippines and United Kingdom. With a commitment to long-term relationships and collaborative contracting setting us apart and through a team of over 2000 skilled professionals, BMD specialises in transformative infrastructure across diverse sectors.

**Benefits**

We offer a rewarding long-term career, opportunities to develop, and a culture that values your contribution. BMD recognises that we are strengthened by diversity and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer, providing a flexible and inclusive workplace that rewards excellence and promotes a healthy work-life balance. We offer unique benefits which includes specialised learning and development programs, a good health and wellbeing program, paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers and flexible work, novated leasing and discounts with hundreds of retailers.

**Who we’re looking for**:
As our Environmental Coordinator, you are passionate about protecting eco-systems and implementing environmental innovation across a range of projects and sectors. As a natural relationship builder, you will influence Project Managers and external stakeholders to achieve continual environmental improvement, using your excellent communication skills and strong technical expertise to:

- Manage environmental aspects and impacts on site in line with best practice principles, and to assist in the achievement of organisational and project objectives.
- Develop and ensure compliance with Project Environmental Management Plans, company Environmental Policies and promote a positive sustainability and environmental culture, leading by example and setting best practice standards as ‘business as usual’.
- Ensure compliance with contractual environmental specifications and environmental legislation, environmental approvals and other relevant stakeholder requirements of the project.

**Your day would look like**:

- Engaging and supporting our precontracts, project teams and workforce to champion use of our systems, client requirements and industry best practice.
- Contributing to tenders and bids giving advice on risk and compliance
- Leading the implementation of the BMD WA Environmental Management System and providing high-level technical advice.
- Visiting projects to champion implementation of our Environmental standards and procedures.
- Facilitating and undertaking environmental monitoring
- Undertaking audits, inspections and frontline engagements.
- Contributing to risk workshops, communication forums and initiatives.
- Contributing to incident investigations and reviews.
- Keeping across industry and legislation changes and advise the business.
- Degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in Environmental Science/ Engineering
- 3-4+ years in civil construction (or related sector) in environmental management
- Prior experience on major infrastructure projects (Transport, Water, Defence) highly regarded
- Possess a solid understanding of the current legislative environment relevant to this role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability & initiative to work autonomously
- Some experience with the management and remediation of contaminated sites is highly desirable
- No agency submissions will be accepted._