Senior Environmental Planning Consultant

Title:

Senior Environmental Planning Consultant

The Opportunity

Join a team that's driving sustainable solutions across Australia. We're looking for a Senior Environmental Planning Consultant to lead complex environmental approvals and make a real impact across sectors including energy, infrastructure, renewables, defence, and mining.

• Be part of a growing environmental planning team in Adelaide.
• Work in a culture that values technical excellence, collaboration, and career development.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver high-quality consultancy services to our valued clients.
• Lead environmental impact assessments and regulatory approvals (EP Act, EPBC Act, bilateral processes).
• Advise on approvals pathways, environmental constraints, and risk.
• Prepare and review reports, referrals, EIS/EMP documentation, and submissions.
• Liaise with regulators, clients, and stakeholders.
• Support business development and strategic growth in South Australia.

What You'll Need

• Degree in Environmental Planning, Science, or related field.
• 5+ years' experience in environmental approvals in SA or interstate.
• Strong understanding of SA legislation (Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act, Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Act, Mining Act) and Commonwealth legislation (EPBC Act).
• Excellent communication and project management skills.

Why Join KBR?

Our people are the heart of our business; they are what make us successful. That's why we're committed to creating conditions in which they can flourish and feel valued, so they can focus on doing what they do best.

Our Purpose:

We are driven by our purpose of Together, delivering infrastructure for a better tomorrow. Our results and reputation for excellence are underpinned by our people and our culture of caring, collaboration learning and trust to deliver innovative professional services for our customers.

We leverage our global network and work in seamless partnership with our customers to deliver innovative, creative and sustainable solutions that will make a lasting impact on communities around Australia.

Our Values:

Everything we do at KBR is centred around our people, customers, and the communities that we strive to elevate. We work together as a OneKBR team of teams to drive our shared purpose and address our customers' growing needs. The results we deliver are underpinned by our collective focus on excellence, passion for the people we work with and the innovations we create to deliver them.

We act with integrity and encourage our people to follow rewarding careers and empower them to strive for excellence and deliver the best results for our customers and communities.

Culture:

We are a people company — great people doing great things, and we look for people who bring passion as well as technical excellence to their jobs as we believe every employee is integral to shaping the future of our business.

With the feel of an agile company and the capability of a large company, we encourage and give our people the autonomy to strive for opportunities that exist in all directions and equip them with the resources to become leaders of tomorrow.

Infrastructure Services business offers fulfilling careers with room to explore their creativity and regularly step up and swim outside of their lane.

In addition to working on some fantastic projects, KBR offer an array of benefits focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continual career development, flexible work arrangements and work/life balance.

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