Location: Fremantle (with regional WA site travel as required)

Work Type: Permanent Full-time

Sector: Environmental Consultancy

Why Ecoscape?

• Flexible working: Craft your working day around core hours to meet personal needs.
• Long-standing client relationships: Our panel and legacy work mean the role will focus on technical delivery and project management rather than business development.
• Tight-knit team culture: Regular team lunches, birthday celebrations, and a baking club. Opportunity to collaborate with other in-house disciplines across botany, ecology, GIS and landscape architecture.
• Location: Centrally located in the heart of Fremantle with excellent access to public transport and the café strip a two-minute walk away.
• Leadership: As a mid-sized consultancy, we have a flat leadership structure with the role benefiting from leadership by staff at Director and Principal level.

Key responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Having high level of zoological knowledge applied through delivering biological field surveys (detailed, reconnaissance and targeted). Producing high quality reports and GIS outputs. Demonstrating species identification, statistical analysis and data management.
• Project Management: Delivering projects from proposals to close out, ensuring milestones are met on time, within budget, and to the highest regulatory standards. Undertaking field surveys in remote areas of WA for extended periods.
• Regulatory & Approvals Guidance: Navigate Western Australian and Commonwealth environmental legislation (including the EPBC Act and BC Act) to provide strategic advice to clients.
• Junior Mentorship: Foster the professional development of field scientists and junior technical staff whilst promoting a strong culture of safety.
• Quality Assurance: Writing and review of high quality detailed technical reports.
• Client & Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, sub-contractors, and regulatory bodies.

What you bring

• Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Zoology, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience within environmental consultancy similar to Ecoscape, or a regulatory environment.
• Field & Technical Mastery: Demonstrated skills in fauna survey methodologies, appreciation for data integrity and experience with GIS applications. Understanding of fauna licencing requirements and WA fauna species identification skills.
• Leadership Skills: Proven capability in managing field-teams and coordinating subcontractors and third parties.
• Communication: Strong technical writing skills. Emotionally intelligent approach to being part of teams and contributing to a positive culture.
• Project Management: Ability to draft winning proposals and manage project budgets.
• Working Rights: Hold a permanent work visa or Australian citizenship.

To apply

When you are ready to take the next step in your career and lead impactful projects across Western Australia, please submit your current CV and a brief cover letter by email to mail@ecoscape.com.au