About Woods Environmental Services | Environmental & Civil

Our Vision

To supply our clients with the highest level of service and create a healthy environment that is critical in ensuring we live in healthy and sustainable communities.

Our People

Experienced and passionate about the industry they work in and take pride in achieving positive outcomes for clients and the environment alike.

Our Work

Environmental, Civil, Consultancy services, we undertake a variety of projects on all scales and complexity.

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Our Vision

At Woods Environmental Services (WES) we believe a healthy environment is critical in ensuring we live in healthy and sustainable communities. WES knows that maintaining balanced ecosystems and restoring damaged or neglected landscapes benefits land owners with improved water quality and diversity of wildlife. We supply our clients with the highest level of service and promote a safe work place. We are specialists in the field of Natural Resource Management as well as having a civil team capable of delivering soft and hard engineering solutions.

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About Us

WES has been in operation for over 20 years and employs over 40 staff across two depots. Our head office which is located in Woori Yallock in the Yarra Valley services Melbourne's Northern, Eastern and Southern regions with our Altona depot servicing clients in Melbourne's West. During peak work times (~October through May), we also employ approximately 30 casual staff to ensure clients' needs are met.

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Our Work and Crews

Whilst our crews are notionally split into NRM & Civil disciplines as outlined below they often combine forces to complete multi-disciplinary projects.

Enviro Crew

Our Environmental crew undertakes a variety of projects of all scales and complexity, including large-scale weed control and revegetation in suburban areas, remote access works where the right equipment and staff are essential and hand weeding in sensitive riparian areas.

Key Skills:

Herbicide application – both high volume and knapsack
Woody weed control
Excellent ID and mapping skills
Grassland management
Riparian vegetation management
Habitat construction
Revegetation
Remote access weed control and mapping
IRATA trained ropes crew
Seed collection

Civil Crew

Our Civil crew undertake large scale tree and woody weed removal works, stream rehabilitation, erosion control, instream rock construction such as fish ladders, rock chutes, bank protection, wetland construction and desilting. This crew also undertakes civil construction, including retaining walls, track upgrades, drainage improvements, and concrete works.

Key Skills

Minor Civil Construction
Concreting
Instream rock work including erosion control structures & fish ladders
River desilting and de-snagging
Tree felling including climbing
Exotic tree removal from stream bank
All types of fence construction
Grooming of vegetation

Consultancy Services

All of our project services listed above are able to offered as ‘design and construct’ by our suitably qualified staff including Bachelors in Applied Science (NRM), Environmental Science - Catchment Management and Environmental Engineering.

Other services include:

Preparation of Environmental Management Plans (and on ground implementation)
Weed ID, mapping and documentation of treatment options
Whole of site rehabilitation plans
Flora & Fauna Surveys
Arborist Reports

Organisation Chart

Rodney Woods

Managing Director

Cameron Padgham

Civil Manager

Civil Crew Supervisor

Plant & Equipment Manager

Minor Civil Crew Leaders

2 Minor Civil Crews

Christain White

Environmental Manager

NRM Supervisor

(North East)

NRM Supervisor

(South East)

NRM Supervisor

(West)

NRM Crew Leaders

9 NRM Crews

Grant Adams

Safety Lead

Business

Administrators