Your new role as an Associate Ecologist/Senior Associate Ecologist with Lathwida

Our new Associate, or Senior Associate Ecologist will provide advanced technical skills and professional leadership.

The role will include project management and business development opportunities on ecological projects within our South Australian team.

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.

Additional responsibilities will include identifying, sourcing and winning opportunities through existing client relationships, or through building strong relationships with our existing and new clients, and leading and/or writing ecology-focused proposals.

Our new ecologist will lead and contribute to the delivery of terrestrial ecology projects; provide people management, guidance and supervision with, as well as undertake, flora and fauna assessments, including desktop assessment; deliver quality technical reports; undertake technical review of terrestrial ecology reports/deliverables where delegated; mentoring and supporting our team.

GIS spatial skills are also highly regarded.

Your technical skills

• A minimum of 8 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, clients and regulators
• Excellent report writing skills
• Well-developed technical ecological knowledge and experience
• Ecology survey experience, including the ability to plan and coordinate ecology field teams
• Able to operate independently, and as part of a collaborative team
• Promotes a positive culture and safe working environment
• Well-networked across industry, and able to generate and pursue opportunities. 

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