Strategic Planning Approvals Specialist
- Develop and coordinate planning, environmental and regulatory approvals for quarry operations, expansions and future resource opportunities.
- Manage approval programmes, consultants, risks, records and compliance across multiple sites and jurisdictions.
- Engage with regulators, landowners, communities and internal teams while supporting reserve planning, rehabilitation and land stewardship.
The opportunity
We're looking for an experienced planning and approvals professional to help secure Adbri's right to operate. You'll work with the National Strategic Planning Manager to manage the approvals that keep our quarries operating, and to open up future reserves through expansions, life extensions and new resource opportunities.
This is a varied, high-impact role, on a two-year contract. You'll work across multiple sites and jurisdictions and with a wide range of people, from quarry managers and technical specialists to regulators, landowners and community groups.
What you'll do
- Develop and deliver planning approval strategies across our quarry and extractive resource portfolio
- Coordinate development applications, licence amendments, works approvals and environmental approvals
- Support approvals for quarry expansions, reserve replacement and quarry life extension projects
- Contribute to short- and long-term reserve planning, with a commercial lens
- Scope, budget and schedule approval programmes, and identify and escalate risks
- Manage multidisciplinary consultants on planning, environmental, heritage, traffic, noise, hydrogeological and ecological studies
- Work with the Environmental and Compliance team and site leaders to meet approval conditions and regulatory requirements
- Maintain a complete digital approval history for each operation, and close any gaps in the records
- Represent Adbri in meetings with regulators, landholders and community stakeholders
- Monitor changes to legislation and planning frameworks, and apply them in practice
- Prepare approval status reports for operational and leadership teams
- Support due diligence on potential resource acquisitions
- Lead rehabilitation, biodiversity and land stewardship initiatives
About you
Essential
- A degree in Town Planning, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Natural Resource Management or a related discipline
- 8–10 years' experience in planning, environmental approvals or a related field
- Experience coordinating development applications and regulatory approvals, either as a Development Assessment Officer in local or state government or as a consultant
- Experience across more than one jurisdiction, particularly New South Wales and Queensland
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary consultants and working across large, multi-site operations
- Excellent written communication, stakeholder engagement and project coordination skills
- A current driver's licence and the ability to travel interstate and intrastate
Desirable
- Experience in quarrying, extractives, mining, construction materials, infrastructure or heavy industry
- Experience developing and implementing project or programme methodologies
- Understanding of quarry operational planning and end-of-life rehabilitation
- Membership of a professional body such as PIA or EIANZ
You are
- Strategic, analytical and practical, with a focus on solutions
- Commercially aware, and able to balance operational, regulatory, environmental and community needs
- Credible and confident with regulators, specialists and operational leaders
- Organised and resilient, able to manage several priorities across sites and jurisdictions
- Collaborative, and able to influence without direct authority
- Detail-focused and committed to safety, compliance and environmental stewardship
Why join us?
Take on a role that directly shapes the long-term future of Adbri's resources
Work across a national portfolio and build experience across multiple states
Be part of CRH, a global business with strong development and career opportunities
Join a team that values safety, integrity, sustainability and collaboration
Our business:
Adbri is majority owned by CRH and is a market leader in the manufacture and supply of construction materials and industrial minerals which has been building a better Australia since 1882. Adbri's respected brands employ over 2800 people nationally producing cement, lime, concrete, aggregates, concrete products and industrial minerals.
About CRH:
CRH (NYSE: CRH) is the leading global provider of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. Employing 80,000 people at 4,000 operating locations in 28 countries, CRH has market leadership positions in North America, Europe and Australia. As the essential partner for transportation and critical infrastructure projects, complex non-residential construction and outdoor living solutions, CRH’s unique offering of materials, products and value-added services helps to deliver a more resilient and sustainable built environment. The company is ranked among sector leaders by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating agencies. A Fortune Global 500 company, CRH’s shares are listed on the NYSE.
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Creating a safe and supportive diverse workforce
Adbri recognises that diversity in our workforce drives innovation, encourages creativity and better equips us to be Always Ready. We are committed to increasing diversity within our workforce and our industry.
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