Environmental Advisor

UGL’S Utilities team designs, constructs and maintains critical infrastructure across the water and power sectors. Ranging from wastewater treatment plants to power stations. We design and construct the following assets; power generation, transmission lines, substations, electrical distribution networks, water and waste water treatment plans and water pipelines.

Our Utilities team works hard and celebrates successes and efforts. If you are looking for a bright future and opportunity to grow your career, then join UGL - a great place to work

**TasWater**
The purpose of the TasWater Capital Delivery Office (CDO) is to build the capability and capacity of TasWater to fulfil its customer promises for improved service levels by efficiently and effectively delivering an accelerated capital program of works.

The TasWater CDO will deliver:

- Opportunities for people to grow and develop
- Economic benefits and growth opportunities for local industry
- Improved safety outcomes
- Capacity and capability to transition the program back to TasWater post completion
- The necessary framework for emergent projects

**About the Role**

Support the Project Delivery Manager(s) to establish and implement the Work Package Environmental Management Plan(s) (WPEMP) for each Project and provide environmental advice and support to successfully deliver positive environmental outcomes

**Project Delivery**
- Support the Project Delivery Manager(s) to establish and implement the Work Package Environmental Management Plan(s) (WPEMP) in consideration of project specific environmental factors, environmental approvals, risk and opportunity and the CDO EMP and Environmental Management Sub-Plans.
- Review sub-contractors Environmental Management Plans, procedures, records and activities and provide advice in their implementation of CDO environmental management requirements.
- Support the Senior Environmental Advisor - Approvals and Compliance to identify and prepare applicable environmental approvals required to support compliant Project Delivery.
- Assist the Project Delivery and Health and Safety Team(s) in the preparation and maintenance of the HSE Risk & Opportunities Register.
- Implement the audit and inspection program to monitor all the activities set out in the EMPs for the project and maintain records of all monitoring activities undertaken.
- Provide environmental training and inductions on relevant environmental issues to CDO staff and sub-contractors.
- Support the investigation and reporting of environmental incidents and complaints to the CDO management.
- Undertake timely environmental performance reporting as required in the CDO EMP, WPEMP(s) and sub-contractor EMPs.
- Monitor and technically support all measures to avoid environmental penalties.
- Support continuous improvement in Safety, Environmental and Quality Standards.
- Other duties as required by the CDO Environmental Lead

**Personal Attributes**
- Proactively seek to continuously improve performance, deliverables and work efficiencies
- Display a positive approach to safety
- Display effective verbal and written communication capability
- High level of personal resilience and persistence
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Excellent conflict resolution skills
- Must be customer focused, team oriented, accountable and results driven
- Must be energetic with a positive can do attitude
- Ability and willingness to adapt, quickly learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing structure, process, information and/or technology
- Excellent relationship building, problem solving, negotiation and leadership skills

**Qualifications and education requirements**

(Essential)
- Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Management or equivalent technical competency
- Considerable relevant construction, water utilities or similar Environmental Management experience
- Working knowledge of relevant environmental legislation
- Prior working experience in ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems
- Current Driver’s License
- Auditing Experience
- Database, Word Processing and Spreadsheet skills

(Desirable)
- Site Environmental Management Green Card or equivalent
- Previous experience working within an Alliance arrangement/structure

**What makes you right for UGL**
- Genuine concern for safety
- Capacity to flourish in a high-performance environment
- An innovative mindset and a willingness to challenge the norm
- A belief that team success and value are realised when everyone plays a part

**About Us**
UGL Pty Limited is a leading provider of end-to-end engineering, construction and maintenance services. We are active across rail and transport, communications and technology systems, oil and gas, power, renewables and resources, water and defence markets. UGL partners with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies and government agencies, private enterprises and public i