Becoming an Environmental Consultant in Queensland

About this role

Environmental Consultants analyse and advise on policies guiding the design, implementation and modification of government or commercial environmental operations and programs.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for an Environmental Consultant include:

• carries out environmental impact assessments for a wide range of development projects
• proposes solutions to address negative environmental impacts of a development project
• studies the effects of factors, such as terrain, altitude, climatic and environmental change, sources of nutrition, predators and the impacts of humans, on animal and plant life
• studies and analyses pollution, atmospheric conditions, demographic characteristics, ecology, mineral, soil and water samples
• develops conservation and management policies for biological resources, such as fish populations and forests, as well as establishing standards and developing approaches for the control of pollution and the rehabilitation of areas disturbed by activities such as mining, timber felling and overgrazing
• participates in management planning by providing environmental information and making inventories of plants, animals and items of cultural and heritage significance.