Senior or Principal Risk Assessor

vor 2 Wochen


Melbourne, Österreich Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. Vollzeit
Overview

Are you looking for a home for the best years of your career? A place where you can contribute to a dynamic innovative firm, tackle challenging project work, and collaborate with industry-recognised professionals? Geosyntec is the place for you 

Geosyntec Consultants is a world leader in bringing innovative solutions to land contamination problems. We are engineers, scientists, innovators. Our local operations are a strong gender diverse and multicultural environment with offices across both the east and west coasts and project sites all over Australia and NZ.

Geosyntec Consultants is a world leader in bringing innovative solutions to land contamination problems and mine sites. We are internationally known for our technical leadership, broad experience and exceptional client service.  Learn by visiting www.geosyntec.com.

Due to recent expansion in the Australian operations, we are seeking a Senior or Principal Risk Assessor in either one of our Melbourne, Brisbane, or Sydney offices.  Our team provides a strong supportive environment for you to grow into an established industry leader, supported by other gender diverse established industry leaders. This person will have a strong track record of delivering quality products to large clients and managing technical work. You will play a key development and management role in the growth of Geosyntec within Australia. This is a unique opportunity to establish and build a practice, with significant technical and executive support with an internationally respected, employee-owned firm. 

The role requires the opportunity to work on a variety of challenging technical projects and leverage your existing knowledge and experience to help Geosyntec expand its current practices and capabilities.  You must lead by example by demonstrating and promoting a team philosophy, to work together toward a common goal to achieve exceptional results for our clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Technical responsibility for scoping, performing, and delivering multiple concurrent human health and/or ecological risk assessments for contaminated land or mine site projects across Australia and New Zealand in accordance with national and local legislation;
  • Integrate the input from a range of internal and external Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) (e.g. environmental Auditors, environmental scientists and engineers, remediation engineers, hydrogeologists and hydrologists, soil vapour experts, tailings dam engineers, cultural and heritage specialists) to ensure that the risk assessments reflect the complex and multi-disciplinary nature of the projects, the expectations from the Clients and the degree to which the stakeholders should be engaged to fulfil the project objectives;
  • Support Clients to make informed decision on how to manage their projects using the risk assessment process as a basis to demonstrate that the decisions are evidence-based and follow the principles of environmental protection (e.g. integration of environmental, social, and economic considerations, precautionary principle);
  • Assisting our environmental consulting experience in identifying risk assessment opportunities in our existing projects to enable better outcomes for our clients;
  • Supporting Geosyntec site auditors in review of risk assessment reports;
  • Communicate the outcomes of the risk assessment process to the project team, Clients, regulators and stakeholders in a manner that reflects their diversity, their visions and their values);
  • Technical direction of all aspects of the risk assessment processes, including environmental data evaluation and mapping, visualisation, regulatory agency interactions, and reporting;
  • Delegating assignments with overall responsibility for completion of tasks within budgetary, schedule, and other internal and external constraints;
  • Support the business development efforts aimed at increasing brand recognition, increasing client portfolios, and establishing Geosyntec as the “go-to” consultancy in the region for challenging environmental problems;
  • Building up Geosyntec Australia risk assessment capabilities;
  • Recruitment of other talented individuals to build the practice; and
  • Training or mentor other juniors in risk assessment practice.

Collaboration and mentoring are cornerstones of Geosyntec’s culture. We operate under a sell-manage-do culture, and so we expect that you’d work on challenging technical projects while leveraging your existing knowledge and experience to help Geosyntec expand its current practices and capabilities through business development and client management. You may also be asked to take on project management responsibilities, along with staff management and mentoring tasks. 

Geosyntec provides professional development opportunities including in-house seminars, webinars, and mentoring, that allow our professionals to build the technical and business skills necessary to become successful consultants.  We encourage our professionals to continually develop their interests and skills with technical, business development and leadership programs available. 

Other benefits include:

  • Brand new office space with easy access to public transport
  • Fun office environment with various social functions
  • Personalised confidential ‘Insights’ review to understand individual personality style and communication preferences and integrated into your team.
  • Hybrid work model
  • Bonus pool
  • Participation at global training sessions
  • Access to numerous Geosyntec risk assessment resources and experts, including Dr Robert Ettinger and Dr Jason Conder
  • Membership to industry associations
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
  • Tertiary degree in geology, environmental science, environmental engineering or related field. (required)
  • Advanced degree in geology, environmental science, environmental engineering or related field. (preferred)
  • At least 8 (10+ preferred) years of risk assessment experience, the majority within Australia, in challenging and demanding positions; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to environmental investigation and remediation. (required)
  • Current and valid work authorisation for Australia. (required)
  • Valid Australian driver’s licence and satisfactory diving record for business travel. (required)
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