The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Approvals Advisor to join us in our Access and Approvals team in Melbourne on a full-time permanent basis. This position requires candidates to be a current resident of Melbourne, Victoria.

Reporting to the Access and Approvals Manager - South East, the Senior Approvals Advisor is responsible for obtaining all environment and planning approvals, ensuring compliance against approvals conditions and securing all necessary land tenure arrangements for a suite of energy infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage access and approvals risk, cost and schedule for projects and integrate these within the overarching project risk registers and cost and schedule estimates.
• Identify and liaise with relevant stakeholders to obtain access and approvals for APA projects.
• Identify and obtain environment and planning approvals required to execute projects.
• Assisting with the securing of relevant land tenure such as easements and crown licences.
• Build and maintain relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to proactively manage issues, concerns, and disputes effectively, build trust and respect, and anticipate and respond to stakeholder needs.
• Appoint and manage external consultants, such as community engagement, cultural heritage and ecology specialists, through the preparation of scope and deliverables for packages of work and manage their performance.
• Verify compliance with project regulatory and corporate requirements during construction.

Your background

• A tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Town Planning, or a related field, along with a current Class C driver’s licence.

• Demonstrated project management experience, with the ability to deliver access and approvals on time and within budget.

• Proven experience in securing environmental and planning approvals for infrastructure projects, preferably linear in nature.

• Strong capability in managing compliance with environmental and planning approval conditions during the construction phase.

• Skilled in building effective working relationships and collaborating across teams and external stakeholders, with a focus on trust, integrity, and credibility.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, complemented by strong attention to detail and well-developed verbal and written communication abilities.

• Committed to working in a safe, organised, and efficient manner, aligned with relevant policies and procedures.

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 employ more than 2700 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 $26 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses 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 offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

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

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. 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.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.