Principal Environmental Scientist at Jacobs (Perth)

Job Description

Are you a highly experienced Environmental professional, looking to take the next step in your career and make an enduring positive impact on the world?

Jacobs has an opportunity for a motivated Principal Environmental Consultant to join our Environmental Team in Perth. As a senior member of the team, you will lead the pursuit and delivery of environmental projects, provides strategic advice to internal and external clients and supports the management team to mentor and grow our team.

This role will work across a number of sectors with a strong focus on new energy, carbon capture and storage, water, transport and Defence, delivering a wide variety of environmental impact assessment, approvals, environmental management and sustainability projects in Western Australia and across Australia

The role is based in our brand-new Perth office where you will work alongside a team of 20+ environmental professionals with experience ranging from recent graduates to over 20 years in the industry. The Perth team is part of a national planning and environmental approvals practice enabling you to work on projects across Australia with our 250+ strong environmental solutions business. We offer a flexible hybrid working arrangement to promote work-life balance and the role can be full time or part time to suit your needs.

The Role

You will take an active role in:

Business development, responsible for building client relationships that secure repeat work in line with our relationship-based sale model.

Overseeing the effective planning and execution of complex projects. You will provide technical guidance to support projects as well as perform the role of Project Director and client-facing roles where appropriate. You will be supported by other senior technical and project delivery leaders, and you will support more junior members of the team.

Providing technical guidance for mid-level and junior staff in order to support the successful execution of projects. You will seek to provide mentoring to more junior staff in relation to the broad skills required of a consultant, both technical and softer skills.

Providing guidance and direction on complex pursuits, and in some instances lead such pursuits. You will be supported by other senior leaders as required in the pursuit of our larger and more complex opportunities.

Providing informal leadership to the broader Environmental Planning and Approvals Section as well as collaborate with other Sections with our broader business to help deliver successful project outcomes for our clients. You will also contribute towards the growth of our capacity, resilience and technical offering of the Section.

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