At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage environmental approvals and engage with regulators for a major oil & gas project.
- Company: Join Airswift, a global leader in workforce solutions for energy and infrastructure.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and opportunities for travel to PNG.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities to work on significant projects and build valuable relationships.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on environmental compliance in the energy sector.
- Qualifications: Experience in environmental approvals and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 $ per year.
Job Title
Environmental and Regulatory Advisor
Duration
12 months (subject for extension)
Schedule
Mon - Fri (7.5 hours a day)
Location
Brisbane, QLD
About the role
Our client, a major Australian oil & gas exploration and production company, is seeking an experienced Environmental & Regulatory Advisor to support a significant upstream project.
This role will be responsible for managing environmental approvals, regulatory compliance obligations, and stakeholder engagement with PNG government authorities and environmental regulators.
The position is based in Brisbane CBD and will involve regular travel to PNG for regulatory meetings, project discussions, and site engagements.
Key responsibilities
- Manage environmental approvals, permit conditions, regulatory commitments, and submission milestones.
- Coordinate the preparation and maintenance of environmental management plans and supporting documentation.
- Maintain compliance registers and monitor environmental obligations throughout project delivery.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with environmental regulators and government authorities.
- Support regulatory meetings, audits, inspections, and site visits.
- Work closely with engineering, construction, and project teams to ensure environmental requirements are integrated into project activities.
- Identify environmental risks, compliance gaps, and approval constraints, providing practical recommendations and solutions.
- Coordinate specialist consultants and internal stakeholders to support environmental deliverables.
- Provide advice to project leadership on environmental approvals, compliance requirements, and regulatory risks.
About you
- Experience managing statutory environmental approvals, submission milestones, approval conditions and regulatory commitments on major projects.
- Strong environmental and regulatory compliance experience within oil and gas, LNG, resources or energy infrastructure environments.
- Direct experience engaging with environmental regulators and government authorities.
- Experience coordinating consultants, technical specialists and internal project stakeholders.
- Experience identifying environmental risks, compliance issues and approval constraints and providing practical project-based solutions.
- Strong knowledge of environmental legislation, regulatory processes and statutory compliance.
- Ability to prepare and coordinate environmental management plans and supporting regulatory documentation.
- Capability to maintain compliance registers and monitor environmental obligations through project execution.
- Ability to translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into practical project deliverables.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries.
Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA).
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Environmental and Regulatory Advisor in Brisbane employer: Airswift
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