Environmental Planning & Compliance Lead

Senior Environmental Compliance Planner; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Hume City Council in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Environmental Compliance Planner to ensure environmental planning controls are followed and protect the built and natural environment across the municipality, focusing on urban growth and green wedge areas.

You will advise Statutory and Strategic Planning, identify updates to overlays, zones and policies, prepare background documentation, and work with internal teams to meet land management obligations.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Environmental Science, Urban Planning, Natural Resource Management, or related discipline with relevant experience.
• Current driver’s licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and recommendations to the Statutory Planning, Strategic Planning, and other departments as required regarding environmental planning issues.
• Identify the need for review and update of planning instruments such as overlays, zones, schedules, policies, and strategies.
• Prepare background documentation to inform updates in relation to the Hume planning scheme in response to environmental and heritage concerns.
• Liaise with Strategic Planning to ensure that environmental subject matter expertise is considered in the planning of future communities within Hume.
• Work internally with relevant stakeholders, such as Statutory Planning, Parks & Open Space, Infrastructure Delivery, and Land & Biodiversity to ensure that our offset and land management obligations are met.
• Regularly inspect properties and provide advice on land management and pollution abatement techniques.
• Monitor new and existing developments to ensure compliance with the Hume Planning Scheme and Planning Permits related to Environmental Planning.

Skills

Time management

Initiative

Emotional intelligence

Written communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Environmental Science or related

Current driver’s licence

Job description

Hume City Council in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Environmental Compliance Planner to ensure environmental planning controls are followed and protect the built and natural environment across the municipality, focusing on urban growth and green wedge areas.

You will advise Statutory and Strategic Planning, identify updates to overlays, zones and policies, prepare background documentation, and work with internal teams to meet land management obligations.