Environmental Planner

Planning & Environment at Beca

Beca’s Planning & Environment team helps clients design and deliver projects that create lasting environmental, social and community value. We integrate planning, approvals, environmental assessment, ecology, heritage, sustainability and environmental management expertise to guide projects from concept to consent and beyond.

Our teams support major initiatives across energy transition, water security, transport and social infrastructure, manufacturing, and defence right across Australia and the Pacific. If you want to influence meaningful outcomes at scale, this is the place to do it.

The Opportunity

This is a new role in our Newcastle office, supporting the continued growth of our Planning & Environment capability in the Hunter region. Newcastle is a key hub for infrastructure and energy investment in NSW, offering the chance to build strong local knowledge, develop client relationships, and contribute to projects that shape the region.

As part of a broader national Planning & Environment team, you will work closely with colleagues across Australia and have the opportunity to contribute to projects across NSW as well as interstate, including Victoria and Queensland. This provides exposure to a diverse pipeline of work spanning infrastructure, energy, and water sectors.

In this role, you will support the delivery of environmental planning, approvals and management across a diverse range of projects. You will contribute to the preparation of environmental assessments, approvals documentation and compliance outputs, working within regulatory frameworks and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Preparing and contributing to environmental planning, assessment and approvals documentation (e.g. REFs, EIS inputs, environmental management plans)
• Coordinating inputs from technical specialists to support integrated project delivery
• Applying an understanding of NSW planning and approvals frameworks  to project work
• Supporting project delivery across infrastructure, energy, and water sectors
• Assisting with client engagement and building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Contributing to bids and proposals, including methodology inputs and preparation of supporting materials
• Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams across Newcastle and nationally

You will coordinate inputs from technical specialists, apply professional judgement to planning challenges, and deliver high-quality project outcomes with guidance from senior team members. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career while contributing to projects that shape communities and support sustainable development across Australia.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have experience in environmental planning or a related field and will be looking to make the next step in your career as someone passionate within a collaborative consultancy environment.

You will bring a passion for environmental planning and a working knowledge of environmental planning legislation and approval frameworks. You will have experience preparing or contributing to environmental planning and approvals documentation, such as Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), Reviews of Environmental Factors (REF) environmental management plans or similar.

You are organised and proactive, with the ability to coordinate inputs from multiple disciplines and manage your own workload to meet deadlines. You apply sound judgement to problem solving and are comfortable working within established processes while developing your technical capability,

Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues a, clients and stakeholders.

You will also have:

• A tertiary qualification in environmental planning, environmental science or a related subject.
• Exposure to infrastructure, energy, or water projects
• Familiarity with NSW and Commonwealth environmental planning and approvals legislation and frameworks
• An understanding of, or willingness to work with, environmental planning frameworks in other Australian jurisdictions
• A demonstrated interest in professional development demonstrated, for example through membership of (or eligibility for) a relevant industry body such as Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand or Planning Institute of Australia.

We have flexibility to shape the role around your experience and support your ongoing development as part of our team.

What We Offer:

A career with Beca will provide you with:

Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.

Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work.  You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.

Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.

Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

Who is Beca?

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Ready to make the move? / Apply now

If you want to make every day better, apply online today!  If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com