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Clair

Who you're hiring

Keith Dimech

The person

I'm an environment and sustainability manager and advisory principal, with a career across Australia's largest water, tunnelling and infrastructure programs. I pair deep regulatory and carbon expertise with an MBA and AI-powered digital solutions. With Clair we look to diagnose your whole system, set the strategy, and build the tools that carry it into day-to-day work.

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (Executive)RMIT University · 2023–2025
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours), GeophysicsThe University of Melbourne · 2014
  • Bachelor of Science (Geology)The University of Melbourne · 2009–2011

Advisory capabilities

What you can put in front of me.

Delivery models & commercial structure
A decade on the contractor's team, across design-build, progressive design-build, alliance and IPD, iTOC and P3 contracts. I have owned multi-million-dollar budgets, delivered tender pricing with a track record of wins, run construction programming, and written and managed dozens of consultant and supplier subcontracts, variations and disputes.
Environmental planning & approvals
A track record of clearing the full approvals pathway on multiple tier-one capital programs across federal, state, local and Traditional Owner jurisdictions. By owning the approvals strategy and the regulator relationships in-house, I kept those projects clear of serious approval delays.
Sustainability strategy & disclosure
Project-level and enterprise-level carbon strategy, board-level transition plans, and systems that make reporting against mandatory requirements such as TCFD or AASB/ISSB cost-effective. I treat carbon as a financial variable, embedded into your current workflows, so compliance reporting carries the lowest possible overhead.
The water sector
Water is the sector I built my career in. I have worked on capital projects ranging from dams and pumped hydro to waste and recycled water treatment and sewage transfer. I am deeply embedded in the Australian Water Association, where I founded the Beyond Zero Specialist Network, a voluntary group of senior leaders drawn from every part of the sector: government, regulators and private industry.
Digital systems & applied AI
I have built the information systems programs need to track, in real time: materials, environment, carbon, contamination, obligations, cost. All these tools are based on the same premise: getting the most out of existing data, not creating new work. "Built to inform, not to automate": we use AI as a thinking tool, not a substitute for judgment.

Career

Where the experience was earned.

  1. 2021–2026

    Sustainability & Environmental Sector Lead

    John Holland Water · Melbourne Water capital portfolio

    Embedded delivery lead across three concurrent Melbourne Water capital programs (Hobsons Bay Main, RRRC and Western Trunk Sewer) with eight direct reports inside a 55-person integrated design and construction team. Designed and built Project Pathway to Net Zero, a carbon materials tracking database now in production across ten concurrent client projects, and delivered Hobsons Bay Main as the first carbon-neutral major construction project of its kind in Australia.

  2. 2021

    Senior Environmental Advisor

    Future Generation Joint Venture · Snowy 2.0

    EPC delivery of Snowy Hydro's pumped-hydro program, inside a category-A protected area. Biodiversity management plan across Kosciuszko National Park, environmental approvals, erosion and sediment control planning, clearing permits and pollution risk controls.

  3. 2017–2020

    Environmental Coordinator

    Cross Yarra Partnership · Melbourne Metro Tunnel

    Cut my teeth on Australia's largest urban tunnelling P3 contract. I delivered the project-wide approvals strategy across noise and vibration under the CBD streets, contaminated land, City of Melbourne planning permits, groundwater extraction and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage. Managed the workfronts for twelve Heritage Inventory excavations, the largest archaeological investigation in the state's history.

  4. 2011–2016

    Earlier career

    WSP · Enqip · Minerals and Metals Group

    Contaminated-land consulting at WSP: Phase 1 and Phase 2 investigations, EPA and NEPM reporting, site investigation design.

    Field environmental monitoring at Enqip: groundwater, air-quality, gas and noise equipment maintenance and deployment.

    Mineral exploration geology at MMG: core logging, mapping, drillhole supervision and geological database design.

Recognition & industry

Awards

  • 2025Australian Infrastructure Project Innovation AwardAustralian Water Association, national
  • 2025Banksia Built Environment & Infrastructure Award
  • 2024Victorian Infrastructure Project Innovation AwardAustralian Water Association
  • 2022Significant Personal ContributionMelbourne Water Award

Industry

  • 2025–PresentFounder & Co-Chair, Beyond Zero Specialist NetworkAustralian Water Association, national decarbonisation initiative for the water sector
  • 2024–2026Victorian Branch Committee MemberAustralian Water Association
  • 2025Lead Applicant, CRC-P GrantDiagnostic Environmental Reporting Tool
  • 2025Author, Project Pathway to Net ZeroOz Water technical paper