Ecologist

🌿 Post Approvals Ecologist / Project Manager

Are you looking for a role where you can leverage your innovative ideas to help grow the post-approvals team and it's offering?

We’re looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Post Approvals Ecologist and Project Manager to join our Greater Western Sydney team. This is an exciting opportunity to take a strategic role that combines fieldwork, technical reporting, project management and team growth.

This role offers:

• A collaborative and professional team (we are a very friendly and skilled bunch)
• An opportunity to support junior team members to grow in skills and confidence
• The chance to leverage your strategic thinking and innovative ideas to grow the post-approvals team and their offering in NSW
• Leadership opportunities in field teams and in your discipline
• Projects across NSW, with a focus in Western Sydney and the Illawarra
• Fieldwork as a Project Ecologist, including the full suite of post-approvals works (pre-clearing surveys, clearing supervision, dam dewatering and aquatic fauna relocation, nestbox/hollow installation and monitoring, vegetation/weed monitoring)
• Further opportunities to assist the restoration and ecology teams with hands-on work and with reporting, depending on your interests
• Project management experience across short and long-term projects with a diverse range of clients

👋 Additional Benefits

You’ll love working with us because we will value your expertise, encourage your curiosity and your contributions will have a real-world impact. You'll be part of a team that genuinely enjoys what they do and supports each other to succeed. We offer:

• A competitive salary subject to annual review.
• Workplace flexibility.
• Paid birthday leave.
• Health & Wellbeing programs.
• Study assistance scheme and learning opportunities with industry experts.
• One professional association membership annually.
• Collaboration on national projects, building your expertise within a supportive community of practice.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Genderless 12-week paid parental leave.
• Salary sacrifice into superannuation or to purchase 4 extra weeks of annual leave.
• Opportunity to participate in Tetra Tech employee stock purchase program, and purchase at a discounted rate (NASDAQ TTEK).

Most of all, we offer purpose-driven work, incredible colleagues, and the opportunity to grow a career where you don’t have to choose between quality of work and quality of life.

👉 Apply now

• Learn more about the role here: Positions Vacant - Eco Logical Australia
• To apply, please forward your application (including a cover letter addressing the above criteria, and a CV) to our People and Culture team, via email [email protected]
• For further information about the position, please contact Charlotte Mills, Senior Restoration Ecologist and GWS Operations Manager, via [email protected]
• Applications close: Tuesday, 3 November 2026

Come and see if our people are your people.