Planning & Environment Advisor

**Permanent full-time Position based in Perth with hybrid working model**:

- **Leading Edge de-carbonisation and Renewable Energy Projects**:

- **Be at the forefront of the energy transition and gain experience in areas across the project development and delivery lifecycle**

**About Alinta Energy**:
**At Alinta Energy, we're constantly striving to do better. Whether it's lowering customers costs, providing world class local service or sustainable energy, our aim is to be better. And to keep getting better day after day. Better for our customers. Better for Australia. And better for our environment.**

We're a leading Australian utility with a generation portfolio of 3,000MW of owned or contracted assets, over 1 million combined electricity and gas retail customers, and around 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. Supplying energy in Australia for over 20 years, today we're a vertically integrated energy company providing generation, retail and wholesale supply of gas and electricity across Australia. We are aggressively pursuing the development of renewable energy generation and offer local customer service through support hubs in Perth, WA and Morwell in Victoria.

**Our Culture**:
It's an exciting time to become a part of our growing team at Alinta Energy. Our people are our greatest asset and we're committed to a culture that's focused on being better at providing great service externally and internally. An organisation where people truly matter. That's better.

**About the Role**:
We are currently seeking a Planning & Environment Advisor to join our Asset Strategy team. Reporting to the Manager, Planning and Community, the role will be responsible for providing key inputs and advice into the development of electricity generation, storage and transmission projects. You will be managing the environment, tenure and statutory approval requirements for new projects. This role will understand the interaction between technical requirements and design elements of project infrastructure and stakeholder and regulatory requirements for a project.

The role will also identify the gaps/conflicts between technical and contractual positions and legislation requirements, negotiated agreements and the views held by key stakeholders. You will assist the Strategic and Business Development functions to identify, access and pursue new projects.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Support the business development during ideation, pre-feasibility and feasibility study phases for prospective development projects
- Oversee the development and design of innovative land access, statutory approval and impact mitigation strategies
- Conduct assessments, prepare reports and provide advice on sound environmental management practices
- Lead negotiations for agreements with Traditional Owner groups to manage Native Title and Indigenous Heritage aspects of development projects
- Contribute to the preparation and detailed review of EPC contract documentation as required
- Lead negotiations with landowners, customers including mining companies, utilities, state government departments and other land stakeholders

**To be successful you will have**:

- A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (for example Environmental Science, Construction, Sustainability, Surveying)
- Extensive experience in a similar role in mining, construction or with energy projects
- Project development or project management experience on infrastructure projects from $10m to $100m+.
- Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills, with capacity to influence and negotiate
- Demonstrated ability to manage and direct multiple workstreams, consultants or contractors
- Experience in Indigenous relationships, Indigenous engagement and heritage management

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Planning & Environment professional who is looking to join a leading industry player in the Australian energy transition to a low carbon economy.

Working at Alinta Energy you will have access to a range of benefits, such as:

- Flexible work options - Alinta Energy is currently trialling a flexible working arrangement where you can work a combination of days from the office and from home
- Staff Energy Offer (where products are available)
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Salary Packaging options
- Full access to Headspace Application
- Salary continuance insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Purchased leave
- Community volunteer leave

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Alinta Energy is a **Circle Back Initiative** employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.

Alinta Energy takes the safety and wellbeing of our people seriously. We require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be able to attend our workplaces.

**How to apply**: