Your new role as a Senior Ecologist with Lathwida

Our new Senior Ecologist will have experience in South Australian field surveys, ecological assessments and reporting writing, with growing skills in project management and team coordination.

Primary responsibilities will include supporting the delivery of high-quality ecological aspects within the strategic bigger picture of Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Regulatory Approvals.

Our new ecologist will contribute to the delivery of terrestrial ecology projects; supporting team coordination and undertaking flora and fauna assessments, including desktop assessment; and delivery of quality technical reports.

GIS spatial skills are also highly regarded.

Your technical skills

• A minimum of 5 years post-graduate ecology-based experience, preferably gained within a consultancy environment
• Tertiary qualifications in ecology or equivalent
• Strong, respectful and effective communication with our team and clients
• Report writing skills
• South Australian-based ecological knowledge and experience
• Ecology survey experience, including the ability to support and coordinate ecology field teams
• Able to operate independently, and as part of a collaborative team
• Promotes a positive culture and safe working environment
• Growing understanding of the bigger picture of how ecology influences environmental approvals strategies. 

Who we are

Lathwida Environmental is a small South Australian company of environmental specialists who are passionate about quality and getting the best outcome for our clients and their stakeholders. We achieve this through our foundation of deep respect and knowledge for the physical and social environment and through the earned respect we have gained from regulators for delivery of quality assessments. Based on decades of experience, we specialise in successful regulatory approvals, with a strategic mind-set and ability to provide every level of support by industry leaders.

We have established a strong reputation for ecology-based projects through strategic advisory services relating to ecological approvals, targeted surveys, design of complicated monitoring programs, including vegetation mapping, impact analysis and offset design, in addition to environmental impact assessments, regulatory approvals, and socio-economic assessments.

What we offer

• A small but growing team of 13, supported by specialist contractors
• Collaboration with dedicated professional colleagues and a strong industry network
• Genuine flexible working arrangements with a family-first focus
• Adaptive team culture, working together, in a low bureaucracy setting, for the best outcome of the team, client and project
• Supported and encouraged professional development opportunities
• Staff benefits including our #thriveday
• Strong brand for career growth
• Engagement on many of the largest projects in SA including Northern Water, Hydrogen Jobs Plan, energy infrastructure, renewables, and BHP’s Carrapateena, Prominent Hill, Oak Dam and Olympic Dam.