Western Australia, Australia

Job Family Group:

Research and Development

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

November 1, 2023

Business unit:

Integrated Gas

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

Where you fit in

Select Carbon is Shell’s first acquisition globally for its Nature-Based Solutions business, which invests in agricultural land management as well as in forests, grasslands, wetlands and other natural ecosystems around the world to reduce emissions and capture CO2 while benefiting productivity, biodiversity, and local communities.

With a proven track record partnering with landholders, Select Carbon has developed carbon sequestration projects that are currently participating in the carbon farming projects, including methodologies under Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative and Emissions Reduction Fund.

Select Carbon are committed to working with land managers to increase carbon sequestration in vegetation and soil to reduce Australia’s net carbon emissions.

Your role as GIS Analyst is to support the delivery of Select Carbon’s Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) program, through the delineation of Carbon Estimation Areas, modeling of carbon abatement, and using remote sensing for the assessment of land systems and vegetation. You will also work closely with other teams in Select Carbon to monitor regeneration, prepare, and complete and submit carbon offset reports to the Clean Energy Regulator. Over time, your role may expand into other types of carbon farming methodologies such as soil carbon or environmental plantings.

What’s the role?

In this role, you will design, apply, and improve spatial analysis, remote sensing and GIS skills to classify and stratify vegetation and conduct vegetation regeneration checks over extensive landscapes, and ensure these analyses meet or exceed compliance requirements for carbon projects.

Major Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Implement procedures developed by the Spatial and Data Science team to carry out vegetation cover stratification and forest cover change analysis across Select Carbon’s Nature Based Solutions projects.

• Achieve the goals and timelines for project reporting and abatement calculations, including compliance audits, as established by the Spatial and Data lead analyst.

• Provide input to internal reviews of Select Carbon's systems and procedures.

• Contribute GIS and associated analyses for feasibility studies for new properties and new project types as opportunities arise.

• Use and extend our codebase (e.g., Python) to perform and automate GIS and remote-sensing workflows.

• Work with a group of professionals from across a range of disciplines, including other GIS and spatial analysts in a high-performing team.

You will thrive in:

·       Maintaining the high level of accuracy in delivering outputs and meeting deadlines.

·       Maintaining focus during periods of repetitive work with standard operations whilst remaining open to new opportunities that are identified.

What we need from you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications or sound working experience in Remote Sensing or GIS. Environmental background or past experience preferred.

• Competent use of the implemented GIS tools, such as QGIS, OGR and GDAL and Python (Essential)

• Experience in remotely sensed data pre-processing, classification and analysis (Essential)

• Attention to details, organisational skills, time management and data management (Essential).

• Knowledge of the Python programming language, preferably including GIS libraries such as Fiona, Shapely, Rasterio, Numpy and Matplotlib (Desired)

• Good knowledge of the vegetation-based methods used in the Emission Reduction Fund, in particular the Human-Induced Regeneration, Avoided Deforestation, and/or planting-based methods (Desired)

• Good knowledge of what is required to be compliant under reasonable assurance audits (Desired)

The successful candidate should be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident. Aboriginal candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. At Shell we believe that every individual has something valuable to offer. We understand that the more diverse the workforce, the wider the variety of ideas we bring to the table. ?

We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered.

Closing date

Applications are invited until 12 October 2023

More about Shell in Australia

Shell Australia is a leading natural gas producer, and we are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by also investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities. A Shell career offers opportunities to work on innovative projects such as the Prelude floating LNG facility offshore of Western Australia and the QGC onshore gas business in Queensland. Beyond these are a wide range of Shell’s New Energies development opportunities. Join Shell and let’s power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions.

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Aboriginal candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. At Shell we believe that every individual has something valuable to offer. We understand that the more diverse the workforce, the wider the variety of ideas we bring to the table. Shell values diversity and offers: flexible work schedules, work and family programs, health and wellness programs, employee networks and mentoring, plus great training and development. The successful candidate should be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident. Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Shell/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.