Experience

Department for Environment and Water

• Australia
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Water Project Officer- Water Affecting Activities

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  o Provide comment on mining and other industry applications in regard to Water Affecting Activities permits and other environmental impactso Carry out field site and desktop assessments for WAA permit applications and potential breaches o Prepare and carry out project plans for a communications package for water affecting activities best practice for land managers, and one for grazing impact management for graziers.

• Pastoral Land Assessment Officer

  • Oct 2009 - Aug 2017

  o Organising and carrying out vegetation condition and grazing assessment on pastoral properties in the northeast of South Australia as mandated by the Pastoral Act 1989o Additional Duties taken on July-September 2015o participating in the creation of a new methodology to assess grazing impacts in ephemerally driven rangelandso assessing proposed bore locations for suitability within the Pastoral Act (Arc GIS)o Volunteer managemento Preparing reports for the Pastoral Board, which are used as the basis for management decisions and as the official records of land condition on Pastoral Leaseso Data management and archivingo Extensive field experience in remote and arid rangeland environments, focussed on vegetation surveying and land condition assessmento Identification of a range of plant species, knowledge of grazing impacts on a range of land typeso Managing teams, vehicles and logistics for safe remote area work including use of remote area communications (UHF, HF, satellite phones, EPIRBS)o Responsibility for the maintenance of a remote area vehicleo Liaising with landholders, herbarium staff and other government employeeso Use of Excel, Word, ARCMap/ARCGIS, Access databases, proprietary databases, field rugged tablets, GPS units and softwareo Presenting work (poster) at the Australian Rangelands Conference 2012 Show less