Senior Revegetation Specialist – Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD

Play a key role in shaping revegetation outcomes that support Western Power’s environmental commitments and the Clean Energy Link (CEL) program.

As a Senior Revegetation Specialist, you’ll lead the development and oversight of revegetation strategies across a portfolio of offset sites. Operating at a program level, you’ll provide technical leadership and governance across planning, delivery and performance, ensuring revegetation programs are consistent, compliant and achieving long-term ecological outcomes.

Working across multiple sites at different stages, you’ll play a critical role in risk management, problem solving and stakeholder engagement—helping ensure programs stay on track and deliver to expectations.

Your Role in Action

• Lead the development and ongoing optimisation of revegetation programs across a portfolio of sites.
• Provide technical leadership across revegetation design, methodologies and standards.
• Oversee contractor delivery, monitoring and performance, ensuring works are completed safely, consistently and in line with agreed quality, compliance and ecological outcome requirements.
• Lead monitoring, analysis and adaptive management to identify emerging risks, drive timely remediation and improve ecological outcomes.
• Prepare and review compliance and regulatory reporting, ensuring monitoring results, risks, corrective actions and remediation progress are clearly documented and communicated.
• Provide technical input into environmental referrals, approvals and stakeholder engagement.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal teams, regulators and external stakeholders.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Bachelor’s Degree in environmental science, ecology, natural resource management, conservation and land management or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience delivering/managing native revegetation/rehabilitation programs, including planning, site preparation, direct seeding/planting and maintenance.
• Experience implementing and assessing revegetation performance monitoring (e.g., photo points, survival/cover, weed metrics) and applying adaptive management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including setting contractor expectations, reviewing performance, resolving delivery issues and engaging landholders and internal delivery teams.
• Knowledge of WA environmental offset guidance and/or regulator expectations for rehabilitation, monitoring, risk management, remediation and offset reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and undertake fieldwork safely, including risk assessment and working in remote/variable conditions as required.
• Proven ability to manage multiple sites and priorities, work autonomously and maintain accurate documentation.
• Experience developing scopes of work, supervising contractors, verifying quality/completion of field works and following through on corrective actions where performance or compliance issues are identified.
• Sound knowledge of local native flora and restoration practices, including seed collection/provenance, nursery stock considerations, weed management and soil/erosion control.
• Valid WA Driver’s Licence Class ‘C’ (or equivalent).

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.  
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 7 July 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

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