The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

Do you want to help us achieve our purpose? If so, we now have an exciting opportunity available for an Access and Approvals Lead to join our Infrastructure Delivery team to help lead the delivery of renewable energy and power projects on full time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Access and Approvals Manager, you will play a key role in obtaining land access and regulatory approvals for renewable energy and power projects in Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and obtain regulatory approvals to enable projects to be developed and constructed
• Acquire land to deliver projects
• Appoint and manage external consultants through the preparation of scope and deliverables for packages of work where required and manage their performance
• Provide input into contracts and scopes of work
• Provide regular business updates on progress, schedule and budget management
• Be the point of contact within a project for all land access, environment, planning, cultural heritage and native title approvals for both internal and external stakeholders

Your background

• Qualification in environmental science, planning, project management or other relevant area of study
• Proven experience in delivering land access and approvals for projects with experience in renewable energy/power projects
• Demonstrated experience in managing consultants (performance and budget)
• Demonstrated experience in preparing budgets and schedules for land access and approvals for renewable energy and power projects

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.

We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive – now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia’s energy transition!

We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priorty. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

PD is available on request by emailing recruitment@apa.com.au quoting reference number above.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.