Lead Field Specialist Landfills

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Environment Protection Authority

**Salary**: $129,379 - $173,138

Occupation: Environment

Reference: VG/701525

As Victoria's environmental regulator, we set and enforce environmental standards to help ensure all Victorians can enjoy clean air, healthy waterways and pollutant-free land.

To achieve the best possible environmental outcomes for Victoria, we're increasingly shifting our focus from minimising the effects of environmental harm, to preventing it from happening in the first place.

To help us achieve this, we're now recruiting. By working at EPA you can enjoy a meaningful career with great work-life balance, while building a better future for our environment.

**Lead Field Specialist - Landfills**
- $129,379 - $151,259 salary range (VPS 6.1)
- Hybrid working options
- CBD Office - 200 Victoria Street, Carlton

**About the organisation**

As the environmental regulator for Victoria, we set and implement environmental standards to help ensure all Victorians can enjoy clean air, healthy waterways and pollutant-free land.

**Benefits of working with the EPA**:

- Contribute to the protection of the Victorian environment and health of its people
- A focus on work/life balance and development opportunities
- A diverse and inclusive workplace with many career pathways
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangement options

**Your new role**

You are a highly experienced landfills professional who will lead EPA's landfills regulatory specialist function. You will drive preventative approaches to managing complex landfill issues and reduce potential risks of harm. You are an influential leader who wants to make a meaningful difference to the Victorian community and the environment.

You will actively contribute to a positive organisational culture and ensure you achieve the highest standards of performance and integrity; and foster genuine partnerships across all levels of government, industry, and community to support the delivery organisational outcomes.

**What you'll do**
- Lead a small team of senior landfill specialists
- Deliver authoritative regulatory and technical advice to EPA senior leadership, investigators, legal practitioners, field officers and duty holders on highly complex matters relating to landfills regulation
- Represent EPA in engaging with the community, Duty Holders and government
- Grow internal capability in landfills regulation through training, mentoring, coaching and advice
- Design regulatory programs to drive improved environmental performance in the landfill sector

**Your skills and experience**
- You have senior level experience and expertise in environmental risk assessment and risk management of operating landfills
- You are knowledgeable in environmental regulatory frameworks, and current and emerging issues in environmental protection and in the landfill industry
- You have demonstrated experience in effectively communicating environmental risk advice in relation to pollution and waste to stakeholders such as the community, duty holders and government
- You are a strong leader who contributes positively to an inclusive and collaborative team culture and supports and develops staff
- You have a tertiary degree and/or post graduate qualifications in engineering, science, environmental science or environmental management

**How to apply**

Please note:

- You must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident (for ongoing roles) or hold a valid work permit or visa.