Victoria’s resources regulator is gearing up to support the state’s minerals boom, the high demand for quarry material and to oversee the onshore conventional gas sector.
Do you value managing our natural resources? Do you know how mines and quarries or other earth moving industries operate? Perhaps you have expertise in site safety or experience working in complex settings?
Over the coming months, Earth Resources Regulation will fill a broad range of roles across Victoria. The experience, skills and capabilities required to be successful in these positions match those of people already living in the state and working within the earth resources or similar sectors.
Earth Resources Regulation oversees the resources sector in Victoria to protect public safety, infrastructure, land and the environment. The team includes engineers, hydrologists, scientists, licensing and assessment officers, inspectors, policy makers and engagement specialists.
Through the Better Approvals for Regulators (BAR) project, Victoria’s resources regulator is updating its assessment and decision-making processes to reduce application waiting times and assist the sector in meeting demand, while maintaining rigorous and robust standards.
Victoria’s resources sector remains strong and the outlook overwhelmingly positive with record quarry production, minerals exploration expenditure growth and high gold production.
The Victorian Government’s record infrastructure investment is driving quarry sector growth. In the six years prior to 2021, production of building raw materials grew by twenty-five per cent. Quarry production exceeded sixty-four million tonnes of sand, rock and gravel in 2020-21.
In November 2021, new legislation and regulations governing the onshore conventional gas industry came into effect, allowing the sector to restart after a nine-year moratorium on exploration.
In response to the sector’s positive outlook, the government has provided additional funds to ensure the processing of licence applications and work plans can continue, while ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place.
