Reporting to the National Environmental Manager, your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

•    Advise and support the National Environmental Manager on sustainability and reporting matters during the development and communication of the National Environmental Plan to all Regions.
•    Facilitate the delivery of a system solution to satisfy mandatory national compliance reporting, including optimising and simplifying where possible Federal greenhouse gas emission and energy reporting.
•    Optimise the system for and co-ordinate the collection of monthly environmental compliance and risk, audit and sustainability reporting.
•    Report on the implementation progress of the Environmental Action Plan for each Region.
•    Assist with the monitoring and reporting of the state of environmental risk nationally, and with ensuring that risks are prioritised and managed accordingly.
•    Support the implementation, review and continuous improvement of the Environmental Management System (EMS).
•    Advise the National Environmental Manager on matters relating to greenhouse gas emissions reduction achievable by energy efficiency improvement.
•    Coordinate the environmental compliance audit program across all regions annually.

To be considered for this role, you must have the following qualifications, experience and attributes:

•    Tertiary qualifications in relevant discipline (relevant disciplines include: Environmental Management, Energy Management and Auditing, Engineering, Science, Mining).
•    Previous experience with greenhouse gas emission (NGERS) and energy (EEO Act) reporting.
•    Previous experience in the construction, property or mining industry or relevant areas of local government and/or consultancy.
•    Experience in the implementation and maintenance of Environmental Management Systems based on ISO 14001.
•    Energy management and auditing experience.

Contact: John Revie – e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

The role will be of a diverse nature and cover a wide range of issues across the carbon management and energy efficiency sectors as we continue to move from a reporting/compliance market into one encouraging increased levels of consultative advice.

Previous consulting and/or in-house responsibilities tasked with technical and project delivery to satisfy existing NGERS legislation will be highly regarded as will an established network of potential clients in Queensland.

Experience in the development of strategic and risk based scenarios around climate change and energy efficiency strategies, carbon accounting and reporting, carbon trading and the verification of GHG emissions will also be looked upon favourably.

Your technical skills are likely to have been further developed through time spent on-site reviewing engineering and/or mechanical processes from a carbon management perspective.

This is an excellent chance to join a highly successful team of carbon specialists and ensure that your own professional development is accelerated during a period of unprecedented legislative and operational change.

Contact: John Revie  –  e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

Position Description:

- Provide leadership to a team of consultants and senior consultants tasked with the delivery of high-quality and innovative energy, carbon and sustainability consultancy services to corporate clients

- Manage medium-large sized carbon, energy and sustainability projects and proposals according to budgets and schedules

- Travel within Australia to undertake projects, business development activities and consulting engagements

- Initiate and undertake extensive business development activities and client liaison

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

- Previous undertaking of energy, carbon and sustainability consulting engagements to a breadth of corporate entities

- Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Engineering or equivalent discipline

- Excellent scientific and technical analysis, numerical skills and report writing skills

- A minimum of 5-7 years experience in carbon consulting or working within industry in carbon/energy management, verification and quantification

- Must have experience in NGERS, EEO or a similar compliance-based carbon/energy quantification scheme

- Experience in the development of small and medium scale project budgets, schedules and priorities

- Ability to maintain and analyse budgets, and provide monthly reports to the management group as required

- Well developed understanding of climate change science plus carbon/energy management technologies, together with applicable Australian and international legislation and policy

- Ability to research innovative energy and carbon project delivery and strategy

- Current knowledge of carbon, energy and climate change legislation, policy and developments in Australian and internationally

This is an excellent chance to join a highly successful team of carbon specialists and ensure that your own professional development is accelerated during a period of unprecedented legislative and operational change.  The chance to work alongside some of Australia’s leading carbon and climate change specialists and mentors should not be taken lightly in view of the associated contribution to your own career growth.

Contact:

Melbourne  –  John Revie – e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

Perth  –  Ruth Stevens – e: ruth@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61(0) 424 755 298

This group has an established, global network of ESIA specialists provides services to the mining, oil and gas, infrastructure and urban development sectors throughout Australia Pacific, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa. As demand grows, there is a significant importance on continuing to build its ESIA team and is looking to recruit additional local resources capable of making a significant contribution to the team.

Position Description:

- Conducting and managing Environmental and Social Impact Assessments for major resource and infrastructure developments
- Providing high level technical environmental advice and regulatory liaison on a broad spectrum of issues within mining and industrial projects
- Manage significant complex projects and be able to review complex technical environmental reports
- Prepare and coordinate the production of high quality reports
- Develop and maintain a broad client base and actively pursue new business opportunities
- Influence, mentor and coach junior and intermediate staff with respect to their career path and professional development
- Display leadership in technical elements of a project and management of project teams

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

- A relevant qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering or related discipline
- A minimum of 10 years relevant experience in a mining or consulting environmental role
- Strong knowledge of the WA approvals process and legislation
- Specialist environmental experience in Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Experience in working with multidisciplinary environmental and engineering teams
- Certified qualifications (CPEng or CEnvP) are highly desirable
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Client management and business development skills
- Proven success in managing and participating in multidisciplinary projects
- Advanced analytical and problem solving skills

In addition to the remuneration package and career development opportunities; our client offers a range of unique benefits and staff programs including; a day off to celebrate your birthday each year, and an option to purchase additional annual leave, health and well-being initiatives and corporate fitness programs and subsidised gym memberships. This is an excellent chance to join a highly successful team of environmental specialists and mentors should not be taken lightly in view of the associated contribution to your own career growth.

Contact: Ruth Stevens – e: ruth@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 424 755 298

Position Description:
- Provide high-quality and innovative energy, carbon and sustainability consultancy services
- Manage small to medium-sized carbon, energy and sustainability projects and proposals according to budgets and schedules
- Manage the energy and emissions data system to ensure accurate and audited data
- Create, verify and manage REC transfers of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:
- Previous undertaking of energy, carbon and sustainability consulting engagements
- Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Engineering or equivalent discipline
- Excellent scientific and technical analysis, numerical skills and report writing skills
- Ability to research innovative energy and carbon reduction strategies

This is an excellent chance to join a successful team of energy and carbon specialists thus ensuring that your own professional development is accelerated during a period of unprecedented legislative and operational change.

Contact: John Revie  –  e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

Position Description:

- Provide high-quality and innovative energy, carbon and sustainability consultancy services to corporate clients
- Manage small to medium-sized carbon, energy and sustainability projects and proposals according to budgets and schedules
- Travel within Australia to undertake projects, business development activities and consulting engagements
- Initiate and undertake business development activities and client liaison

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

- Previous undertaking of energy, carbon and sustainability consulting engagements to a breadth of corporate entities
- Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Engineering or equivalent discipline
- Excellent scientific and technical analysis, numerical skills and report writing skills
- A minimum of  2-3 years experience in carbon consulting or working within industry in carbon management, verification and quantification
- Must have experience in NGERS, EEO or a similar compliance-based carbon quantification scheme
- Experience in the development of small and medium scale project budgets, schedules and priorities
- Ability to maintain and analyse budgets, and provide monthly reports to the management group as required
- Well developed understanding of climate change science, carbon management, energy management, together with applicable Australian and international legislation and policy
- Ability to research innovative energy and carbon project delivery and strategy
- Current knowledge of carbon, energy and climate change legislation, policy and developments in Australian and internationally

This is an excellent chance to join a highly successful team of carbon specialists and ensure that your own professional development is accelerated during a period of unprecedented legislative and operational change.  The chance to work alongside some of Australia’s leading carbon and climate change specialists and mentors should not be taken lightly in view of the associated contribution to your own career growth.

Contact: John Revie  –  e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

Your ability to seek out thoroughly researched and collaborative results to the benefit of largely disparate parties in complex and often emotionally changed circumstances will be evident from previous professional engagements as will be your awareness of key environmental and resource-based markets.

Previous experience in any or all of the following fields will be highly regarded:
-    Internal and External Corporate Affairs management
-    Environmental and Sustainable development leadership
-    Stakeholder and External Relations management
-    Non-Executive Directorship/s

With multiple hires anticipated over the next six months on the back of a significant upsurge in business development pipelines, now is an excellent time to make the move into a firm dedicated to social, environmental and stakeholder engagement practices.

The added benefit of working with some genuine industry leaders in a mentoring capacity should not be underestimated regardless of your current level of expertise.

Contact: John Revie – e: john@carbonjobs.com.au  |  p: +61 (0) 420 970 334

clean energy future update

The carbonjobs team celebrated with clients and job seekers alike on Tuesday 8th November with the passing of the Clean Energy Future package by the Senate. Whilst plenty of hard graft occurred right across the industry in recent years, the real effort begins now as members of our existing and expanding professional network strive to adjust to the challenges encompassed within this new and exciting business environment.

water cooler thoughts

- $23.00 is the price of carbon emissions per tonne from 1st July, 2012

- $10.10 is anticipated to be the average weekly assistance for households

- this assistance will first be delivered to pensioners, allowees, Family Tax Benefit and other eligible recipients through a one-off, tax-exempt, lump sum Clean Energy Advance in May or June 2012

- $9.90 is anticipated to be the extra weekly costs for the average household

- $18,200 is the new tax-free threshold from July 2012

featured articles | web-links

Carbon Market Institute (CMI): Australia’s Clean Energy Legislative Package: A Guide for Business

CMI has teamed up with Baker & McKenzie to provide Australian businesses with an in-depth examination of the Government’s carbon pricing mechanism. “The Carbon Price Mechanism (Scheme) and accompanying legislation establishes a carbon price by way of an emissions trading scheme similar to that in Europe and New Zealand designed to provide price signals to incentivise new behaviours and encourage the adoption and consumption of low carbon energy alternatives. The Scheme imposes obligations on industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the surrender of tradeable permits and undertake projects that generate carbon credits. It is not a “carbon tax” which is simply a fixed impost on emissions.”

Graziers bank their carbon credits

“Tasmanian graziers Peter Downie and Roderic O’Connor were comfortably ahead of the politicians in Canberra in voting for carbon trading. The two major landowners were holders of VCUs (verified carbon credit units) earned for preserving native forests, well before the 10 October House of Representatives vote moved the nation towards a new Carbon Age.”

International Stakeholder Engagement Standard AA1000SES (2011)

The AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard provides a basis for designing, implementing, evaluating and assuring the quality of stakeholder engagement. It has been designed to be multi-purpose, not just for sustainable development, and can be used by businesses, civil society, public bodies and multi-stakeholder networks and partnerships.

The 2011 Global Cleantech 100

Collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data, with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel, these companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech – the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

GRI and ISO 26000: How to use the GRI Guidelines in conjunction with ISO 26000 (2011)

“The first ever ISO Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility, ISO 26000, emphasizes the value of public reporting on social responsibility performance to internal and external stakeholders, such as employees, local communities, investors and regulators. This represents an important new level of international attention to the issue of reporting, and is aligned with GRI’s vision that disclosure on economic, environmental, social and governance performance becomes as commonplace and comparable as financial reporting.”

How solar can save Gulf oil exports

The carbonjobs team enjoyed reading Giles Parkinson’s piece from Climate Spectator which examines the notion that parts of the Middle East are fast becoming serious players in renewable energy generation investment. Their motivations may be two-fold of course! “Something rather unexpected is happening in the Middle East. The oil-rich Gulf states, which have earned trillions of dollars in the past few decades exporting crude to the east and west, find they can no longer afford to consume their own oil. They are consuming ever increasing amounts at home, at a huge cost to exports, and are being forced to turn to renewables as a cheaper source of energy.”

RECENT | FUTURE ACTIVITY – roles being worked on throughout Australia at present are largely in respect of clients revisiting somewhat “dusty” job specs that previously failed to gain internal sign-off. Expectations are that the more reactive NGERS and EEO based compliance and reporting opportunities will be replaced by more proactive consultancy based roles undertaken by both in-house and external consultants. The creation of marginal abatement cost curves, investigating supply chain carbon constraints, devising carbon offsetting strategies and better educating senior management and board members as to their newly mandated fiduciary duties are all key elements of opportunities that we are beginning to see gain final sign-off approval….exciting times ahead!

• Climate Spectator – “Carbon price voted in.  What next?” – link
• ABC  – “Gillard, Rudd celebrate as carbon bills pass” – link

From speaking with clients extensively over the last few months, the carbonjobs team now anticipates that the requisite business case for desired head count increases, whether within a major blue chip or specialist consultancy firm, can now be offered with a significantly higher level of certainly to Executive-level management.

Our more proactive clients will begin to hire this side of Christmas knowing only too well that the pool of specialist job seekers within Australia is limited at best.

As always, we expect other companies to take a wait and see approach thus placing additional restrictions upon their ability to recruit the best possible job seeker/s and perhaps even meet legislative obligations.  Any delays in hiring decisions will almost certainly result in additional dollars being spent in either outsourcing carbon and energy compliance tasks or training up a less experienced workforce.

With the NGERS season drawing to an end in the coming weeks, the hope remains that this increased level of political and commercial certainly will enable clients to take a more proactive approach to both assessing their existing carbon footprint and beginning to deliver solutions and behavioural change projects which often prove to be a positive contribution to bottom line savings even before factoring in a carbon price.  Should this be the case, a greater variety of employment opportunities will no doubt result.

All the best

the carbonjobs team

clean energy future update

August and September were frantic months in terms of Australian politics with the 18 (or so) bills constituting the government’s Clean Energy Futures package being introduced to the House of Representatives on Tuesday 13th September. The government’s “intended” timeline for passage of the bills is:

• Tuesday 4th October 2011 – Joint House and Senate Committee report deadline;
• Wednesday 12th October 2011 – House of Representatives vote on the carbon bills;
• Monday 7th November 2011 – Senate vote on the carbon price bills.

water cooler thoughts

89 countries, accounting for more than 80 per cent of global emissions and more than 90 per cent of the global economy, have pledged to reduce or limit emissions by 2020 under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Emissions trading schemes have operated for years in 31 European countries, New Zealand and in 10 US states. California, the world’s eighth largest economy in its own right, will launch its ETS next year.

featured articles | web-links

Four Corners: “The Carbon War”

Reporter Marian Wilkinson investigates the campaign against the carbon tax, talking to Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and other key players. She also talks to the scientists who have been threatened and asks why the issue has created so much division. She examines the facts behind the claims being made about the impact of the new carbon price and the emissions trading scheme that will follow.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/09/15/3318364.htm

Melbourne to get first biochar plant
The Age (6th September, 2011) detailed how the country’s first commercial biochar plant, to turn green waste into energy and store carbon dioxide, will be built in Melbourne. A $4.5 million grant was awarded to Pacific Pyrolysis from the Victorian government’s Energy Technology Innovation Strategy, designed to support projects with high technology risk. It will be built over the next 12-18 months at one of the existing suburban waste facilities operated by partner Transpacific Industries, which will provide the feedstock.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-to-get-first-biochar-plant-20110905-1ju9m.html

Is Abbott starting to feel the heat?
The carbonjobs team could not provide an overview of the last two month’s without cherry picking a political piece and thus decided upon an article by Rob Burgess that featured in the Climate Spectator (15th September, 2011). We have seen plenty of crystal balls fail their owners in recent years with the final chapters of legislative passage in Australia set to play out in the coming weeks and months.
http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/abbott-starting-feel-heat

Chatham House transcript
The carbonjobs team recently came across this Chatham House transcript of a presentation on the “The Art and the Science of International Climate Change” delivered by Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State, Energy and Climate Change. The summary offered by Huhne (pages 1-6 of the transcript) as to both the current state of play and the history of climate change to date, is one of the better descriptions we have encountered in recent months and a positive example of how best to articulate the key issues. The ability to articulate such matters has been found wanting of late in in Australia.
http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Meetings/Meeting%20Transcripts/210711huhne.pdf

Could a carbon price save America?
The final article that the carbonjobs team wished to highlight in our August – September market update comes from America where an increasing number of policy institutes and think tanks from across the country are seriously examining the role pricing carbon within their economy could play on both job creation and raising much needed revenues. This article was originally published by the Centre for American Progress – (www.americanprogress.org) – and then featured within Climate Spectator as per the below link.
http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/could-carbon-price-save-america