Planning & Environment at Beca
Beca’s Planning & Environment team helps clients design and deliver projects that create lasting environmental, social and community value. We integrate planning, approvals, environmental assessment, ecology, heritage, sustainability and environmental management expertise to guide projects from concept to consent and beyond.
Our teams support major initiatives across energy transition, water security, transport and social infrastructure, manufacturing, and defence right across Australia and the Pacific. If you want to influence meaningful outcomes at scale, this is the place to do it.
This is a new senior leader ship role to champion and deliver ecological and biodiversity assessment s , provide trusted ecological advice , and embed ecological outcomes into multidisciplinary projects across Beca’s markets in Australia. This role is a key strategic investment , iden tified as part of our wider growth strategy . You’ll have the opportunity to build and shape the Victorian ecology capability and offering, including driving strategic recruitment, capacity building, and technical oversight of our biodiversity focussed work.
As a senior member of our Planning & Environment section, you will help shape strategy, grow capability across environmental, ecology and social disciplines, help build Beca’s brand, and take a key client leadership role for relevant clients. This newly created and fast-growing section is focused on helping our clients create measurable environmental, social and community benefits .
As a leader in the business, you will set best practice ecological outcomes and biodiversity strategies aligned with national/international environmental standards. As well as providing advice to relevant team members to integrate ecological safeguarding and best practice ecological outcomes into project design, impact assessment, a nd approvals.
A key focus of the role will be in the Energy , Water and Defence sectors where you will:-
To be successful in this role you will have extensive experience as a n Ecologist /Technical Lead or similar and have worked in Energy, Water or a related industry, with proven consulting experience . You are someone who embraces challenges, promotes innovation and leads with a mindset of continual improvement, as well as connecting the Beca network to bring the best of our business to our clients and the community.
Being a technical leader and relationship builder, you have the capability to lead projects and project teams and initiate, manage and develop strategic and operational relationships internally and externally to influence and coordinate people and skillsets to effect change to benefit our communities, people and clients. Experience in giving evidence as expert witness would be beneficial.
A career with Beca will provide you with:
Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work . You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.
Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.
Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.
Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.
‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.
At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.
As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
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If you want to make every day better, apply online today ! If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com
