John Holland

John Holland • New South Wales • 1w ago

About the Role

As Group Manager - Environment and Sustainability, you will lead John Holland’s environment and sustainability strategy, governance, and compliance activities, providing enterprise-wide oversight and support across our business units and projects. This role can be based in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, with travel as required.

Working closely with the Strategy team and ESG pillar leaders, you will play a key role in coordinating and facilitating the delivery of our ESG strategy, ensuring environmental and sustainability priorities are embedded across the business.

What you will do

Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of ESG strategies to align with John Holland’s pillars of Environmental, Social, and Governance.
Develop and drive resource efficiency, net zero pathways, climate change resilience, and nature resilience business cases and initiatives to enhance environment and sustainability performance.
Oversee ESG risk management, ensuring compliance with regulations and alignment with industry best practices.
Provide input into business planning and tenders, ensuring environment and sustainability priorities are incorporated into project and organisational strategies.
Manage and mentor the Environment and Sustainability team, fostering professional growth and alignment with organisational goals, and manage the shared service operational Environment and Sustainability teams to ensure business unit objectives are met.
Coordinate the delivery of the broader corporate ESG strategy, including consolidating reporting, and drive continuous improvement in environment and sustainability systems, tools, and processes to enhance data capture, reporting, and decision-making.

What we are looking for

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Science, Safety, Environment, Quality Management, Sustainability or a related discipline.
Extensive experience in strategic ESG and organisational change, and environment & sustainability roles within construction, engineering or other high-risk industries.
Proven leadership and people management experience.
Experience applying sustainability frameworks and rating tools.
Strong understanding of environment and sustainability regulatory, compliance and reporting requirements
Stakeholder engagement and consultation expertise.

What we offer

Competitive salary and benefits, including salary continuance and salary sacrifice options
Flexible work arrangements and generous leave, including 18 weeks paid parental leave
Career development through technical, leadership and emerging talent programs
Opportunities to work on some of Australia's most iconic projects
A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong
Wellbeing support and benefits designed to help you thrive

At John Holland, our purpose is simple: we transform lives with everything we do.

We know infrastructure is about people - our customers, our employees and the communities we work in every day. That's what sets us apart: deep expertise, proven capability and a genuine commitment to creating better outcomes for people along the way.

With expertise spanning engineering, construction and operations, we're delivering the projects and services that keep communities moving. From rail, roads and bridges to hospitals and stadiums, we've helped shape Australia through iconic projects. You'll even see us operating buses, trains and trams.

Be part of a team that's up for the challenge of transforming lives.

John Holland does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CVs from agencies that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers.