Assessment & Approvals Specialist

Assessment & Approvals Specialist – Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD

Join our team and step into a pivotal environmental and approvals role supporting some of Western Australia’s most significant energy infrastructure programs, including the Clean Energy Link program.

You’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to secure approvals for complex transmission projects, enabling the energy transition, future growth and strengthening network reliability, while maintaining strong environmental and compliance outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to Clean Energy Link—supporting the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

Your Role in Action  

• Contribute to the development of statutory approvals pathways for Clean Energy Link projects through desktop assessment, constraints identification and field work.
• Support regulatory submissions including drafting environmental impact assessments, referral documentation (e.g., EPBC, WA EPA), environmental management plans, and responses to RFIs, ensuring high-quality, defensible content.
• Engage, procure, and manage external technical consultants undertaking ecological,  hydrology, contamination, or other specialist fieldwork, overseeing scopes of work, budget, schedule, and deliverable quality.
• Undertake data entry, document control and version management for assessment and approvals documentation, ensuring traceability and compliance with project governance systems.
• Conduct spatial analysis and mapping using GIS software to develop datasets, interpret spatial constraints, and support route refinement, site selection, and environmental risk assessments.
• Support leaders and Joint Planning Teams in the preparation of long-term strategies and development plans to ensure the early identification and consideration of Clean Energy Link requirements.
• Working with construction delivery partners, ensure that Environmental Management Plans, approval conditions and compliance expectations are upheld.
• Engage with continual service improvement and innovation opportunities to bring new ways of working to the project.
• Support internal and external engagement, including collaboration with Traditional Owner groups, landholders, regulators, local government, and other stakeholders as required during the assessment and approval phases.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, urban and regional planning, law or related discipline.
• Experience in environmental approvals.
• Demonstrated experience with assessment and approvals in a major infrastructure, mining or regulatory environment.
• Proven ability to influence key internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication and written skills.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 17 July 2026. 

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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