About us

Acting to combat climate change is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Climate Friendly was founded in 2003 as a profit-for-purpose business. Our growing team is passionate about active land management, and we are focused on finding economically viable solutions to maximise our impact on climate change. 

We are one of Australia’s largest and most experienced carbon farming project developers. This includes more than 160 projects with farmers, plantation managers, agribusiness, and Indigenous groups on carbon farming projects.

Climate Friendly has delivered over 20Mt in carbon abatement as at the end of 2020. Our immediate mission is to establish partnerships, by 2025, that will store or reduce 150Mt of CO2-e, while repairing nature and supporting reconciliation. Join our team and you will be helping to build A productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions & nature positive Australia by 2050

We have a genuinely friendly and supportive culture where everyone has a voice and opportunity to help shape our future and to fulfil our purpose.

The role

As GIS Technician you will work as part of team with other spatial engineers to coordinate the schedule of acquisition and processing workflows of LIDAR and imagery captured through our drone acquisition program whilst establishing and maintaining imagery and associated metadata within a spatial data management platform

Key responsibilities include:

• Processing of LIDAR and imagery from UAV and other sources, including associated ingestion workflows
• Scheduling and communication with internal staff and external acquisition contractors 
• Maintaining a good working relationship with Climate Friendly business units to ensure delivery schedules are understood and priorities communicated. 
• Conducting technical QC processes on incoming data
• Provide basic technical support to non-GIS internal customers and users.
• Managing storage and archiving processes as required

Salary for this opportunity is $74,064 plus superannuation.

About you

• Graduate of Spatial or Environmental Science with project experience in GIS or spatial engineering role.
• Good working knowledge of LIDAR and Drone Imagery data acquisition processes and products
• Good working knowledge of a range of spatial information systems and analytical tools (including QGIS as a minimum) and ability to expand knowledge rapidly.
• Exposure to PostGIS for implementing queries in spatial SQL
• Demonstrated ability to use scripting for automated workflow(s) e.g., R, Python, FME
• Highly organised with the ability to work unsupervised
• Ability to work in a small team and contribute to group problem solving
• Ability to communicate complex technical products to non-technical audiences, both internal and external.

Climate Friendly encourages people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities.

Why join our team?

Our goal is to be seen as an organisation that supports wholeness, lifestyle and wellbeing whilst rewarding individual and collective performance. In addition to competitive salary and transparent career progression opportunities, our benefits include:

• Work with purpose, contributing to a productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions and nature positive Australia by 2050
• A fully hybrid workplace - work to your own rhythm and balance connection and productivity
• A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes diversity
• 2 all staff events a year to connect with your friends and colleagues
• Christmas holiday - 3 days of additional leave each year
• Floating public holidays
• Gender neutral paid parental leave
• 2 days each year for training / development / study leave
• Home office setup and refresh allowance
• Company performance bonus and shared equity