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,sustainabilityand environmental managementexpertiseto 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.
The Opportunity
This is a new senior leadershiprole to champion and deliverecologicaland biodiversityassessments,providetrusted ecological advice,andembedecological outcomesintomultidisciplinary projectsacross Beca’s markets in Australia.This roleis a key strategic investment,identifiedas part of ourwidergrowth strategyYou’llhave 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,ecologyand 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 willset best practiceecologicaloutcomes andbiodiversity strategiesaligned with national/internationalenvironmentalstandards. As well as providing advice to relevant team members to integrateecological safeguardingand best practice ecological outcomesinto project design, impact assessment, and approvals.
A key focus of the role will be in the Energy,Waterand Defencesectors where youwill:-
Lead and growBeca’secologyprofile and marketpresencein Victoria.
Lead account planning and pursuit strategiesfor project work aligned with our strategy
Lead bid strategy, value propositions,pricingand pitches to clients.
Develop and nurture positive relationships withclients in these sectors
Advise and prepare scopes for clients that address delivery and approvals risks.
Mentor and developecologists, environmentalpractitionersandplanners; foster a high-performing, inclusive culture.
Build cross-Tasman collaboration with Beca’s New Zealand team for project pursuits and delivery across Australia and the Pacific.
Build discipline tools,templatesand training for consistent high-quality deliveryin collaboration with broader ecology capability across Beca
About You
To be successful in this role you will have extensive experience as anEcologistTechnical Leadorsimilar and have worked in Energy,Wateror a related industry, with proven consulting experienceYou are someone who embraces challenges, promotesinnovationand 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.
Youwill:-
Be aQualifiedand experiencedecologist
Be arecognised ecology technical leader with a record of delivering complex, high impact projects.
Have experience in team leadershipand/or building
Have an ability to develop people,growcapabilityand build anintegratedteam
Remainup-to-datewith the latest legislativedevelopmentsandprovideupdates on these developments across the team
Have proven commercial acumen with experience growing client relationships and expanding service offerings.
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.
What We Offer:
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 workYou 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,thoughtand experiences.
Who is Beca?
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 andexpertiseto 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, ouraspirationsand our purpose – to makeeverydaybetter. Our four values – partnership, tenacity,enjoymentand care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.
At Beca we makeeverydaybetter for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility meanyou’renot just on the fringes;you’remaking 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 thatit’snot 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.
Ready to make the move? / Apply now
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
Creative people together transforming the world is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better.
We are diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives, skills and disciplines to every client and every challenge. We're also a team that understands the power of working together to bring resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights. And this holds true whether we’re working on a small library for a local community or a multi-site expansion programme for a global food and beverage giant.
We have more than 4,000+ employees in 25 offices around the world. While our experience has been over 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.
