Provision of a full time client-side Environmental Project Officer
The Southwest Pipeline is a State-government-funded water infrastructure project involving the construction of a 25-kilometre pipeline and a new water treatment plant, ensuring a reliable long term water supply for the Beaudesert and developments in the Scenic Rim region. Cowie supplies a full-time Environmental Project Officer who provides assurance services and expert advice to the client for the project. Cowie provides a significant contribution to the project, ensuring sound environmental management practices on site, legislative compliance, and minimisation of potential environmental impacts by contractors throughout project delivery.
The Environmental Project Officer provides an important contribution to the delivery of the Southwest Pipeline Project. Responsibilities include environmental monitoring and reporting, conducting HSE audits and assurance activities to ensure contractors’ compliance with environmental management plans, investigating and reporting environmental incidents and complaints on site to the project manager and other internal stakeholders and offering expert environmental advice to the project requirements. Cowie also acted as cultural heritage liaison, providing coordination between traditional owners and contractors and reporting cultural heritage matters to Seqwater’s Cultural Heritage Consultants
Cowie successfully provided environmental support and assurance activities through the construction phase of the project.
Cowie ensured the contractor’s compliance with environmental management plans and legislative requirements and approval conditions.
Environmental Project Officer acted as the on-site cultural heritage liaison between traditional owners, archaeologists and Seqwater.