Vegetation Carbon Project Manager

Western Australia, Australia

Job Family Group:

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 5, 2024

Business unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

Where you fit in

You will work within the vegetation project management team and interact with other teams in Select Carbon, landholders, and other stakeholders including governments and the Clean Energy Regulator to deliver high quality carbon farming projects.

What’s the role?

This role’s primary objectives are to manage a portfolio of several vegetation-based carbon projects ensuring successful project performance, project compliance and customer service. It requires coordinating and managing expert input from internal teams, internal and external data and information to deliver high-integrity carbon projects within a dynamic landscape.

The role is focused on Human-Induced Regeneration projects but may expand over time to include other methodologies such as Environmental Planting.

Primary accountabilities include the following:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers (landholders) and colleagues across various teams to optimize project performance and ensure all aspects of projects are communicated.

• Guide the direction, monitor progress, and ensure compliance of vegetation-based carbon projects, including the preparation and submission of Offset and Monitoring Reports, and applications for ACCUs.

• Act as the CER Primary Contact for assigned projects, coordinating responses to project RFIs and assisting with project audits.

• Contribute to the development of management plans and innovative grazing management techniques, and ensure projects comply with methodologies and codes of conduct.

• Adopt a continual-improvement approach to enhance project outcomes, reduce risks, and improve efficiencies, while maintaining professional document management and company records.

• Use appropriate management software for tasks and project management and manage interactions with internal and external stakeholders effectively.

• Stay updated with CER correspondence and uphold Select Carbon’s values on HSSE and environmental awareness.

The role will include travel to remote areas for field work, customer and external stakeholder engagement.

What we need from you

To succeed in this role you will have:

• Tertiary education in Project Management, Agricultural Science, Agribusiness, Animal Science, Environmental Science or similar fields of biological sciences.

• Experience in managing multiple projects and prioritizing competing demands.

• Driver's License essential (manual license preferred). 4WD experience preferred. First aid training.

• Excellent communication skills for internal and external interactions.

• Proficiency in writing, reporting, and data management.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Training/experience in agriculture, animal science, environmental science, or equivalent.

• Knowledge of carbon farming and project development.

• Desirable - Experience in pastoral production systems, rangeland vegetation, or semi-arid NRM.

• Desirable - A capacity to apply scientific and technical knowledge for practical outcomes on farms and pastoral stations.

• Desirable - A working knowledge and understanding of methodologies under the Australian ACCU Scheme.

Application period will run until September 19.

We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered.

More about Shell

Shell Australia is a leading natural gas producer, and we are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by also investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities. A Shell career offers opportunities to work on innovative projects such as the Prelude floating LNG facility offshore of Western Australia and the QGC onshore gas business in Queensland. Beyond these are a wide range of Shell’s New Energies development opportunities. Join Shell and let’s power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions.

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