Environmental Coordinator

Job No: 495773

Work type:Full Time

Location:Melbourne

Categories:Health, Safety, Environment, Quality

Advertised:28 Apr 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time

Applications close:28 May 2025 AUS Eastern 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, with a growing international footprint extending to the Philippines and the United Kingdom.

Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies, we deliver complex infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. For over 45 years, our diverse portfolio of projects and roles provides exceptional opportunities for our people to grow and make a lasting impact. As part of our team, you’ll help deliver challenging projects, supported by leadership within an inclusive people-first culture.

**About the role**

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.

**Key responsibilities**
- Engaging and supporting our precontracts, project teams and workforce to champion use of our systems, client requirements and industry best practice.
- Advising on risk and compliance
- Being an on-site champion and across the 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

**About you**
- 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

**Benefits**

We believe our people do their best work when they feel supported - personally and professionally. That’s why we offer benefits that go beyond the basics:

- **grow your career** with specialised learning and development programs
- **be recognised** at our annual employee awards event and through our Thrive reward and recognition platform
- **prioritise wellbeing** with mental health support and discounted gym access
- **support your family** with paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers and flexible work arrangements available
- **access perks** with novated leasing, specialised Power Perks and discounts with hundreds of retailers.

**Diversity and inclusion**

We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.

**So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.