Jessica Heidrich

Jessica is an accomplished heritage practitioner and archaeologist with over eight years of professional consulting experience across Queensland and New South Wales. Jessica’s professional experience encompasses strategic heritage design and development advice, statutory impact assessment and planning compliance, heritage and character assessment, conservation management planning, long-term asset strategies, and site and landscape analysis. Her specialist heritage management skills are complemented by experience in broader environmental management, community and stakeholder consultation, Aboriginal heritage management, archival research, feasibility assessments, heritage interpretation, and archaeological survey and excavation.

Jessica provides leadership to the Built Heritage and Places Teams in Queensland, in her role as Associate and Team Leader. In this role, Jessica provides strategic leadership across a multidisciplinary team, managing and reviewing technical work, fulfilling a senior technical role, and also maintaining responsibility for quality assurance and risk management. Jessica’s practice brings a strategic, place-led approach that balances heritage conservation with community place-making, planning policy, and the needs of evolving environments. Jessica is well regarded for building effective working relationships with corporate, government and non-government entities, consistently providing practical, informed heritage guidance.