Senior Environmental Advisor - Projects (2-year fixed term contract)

This is an exciting opportunity to take responsibility for coordinating and providing functional environmental support for the Waihi North Project and Operations. As we move from the consenting to project execution phase for the project, we are seeking an experienced environmental professional to lead the development and implementation of key water management plans and activities to ensure compliance with our regulatory approvals. This role ensures compliance with statutory acts, regulations, consent conditions and company environmental standards.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the operation to meet all regulatory and OceanaGold requirements, standards, and guidelines.
• Develop and implement water related management plans and ensure all activities, monitoring, and reporting are conducted according to the management plans.
• Coach and develop direct reports to meet or exceed expected performance levels through the development and review of goals.
• Liaise with personnel, consultants, regulators, auditors and legal advisors to ensure company environmental performance and targets are achieved.
• Provide specialist environmental advice to projects and personnel as required. Represent the Projects Department at site meetings as appropriate.
• Present environmental focused information to internal and external groups.
• Ensure site awareness of regulatory and statutory obligations through day-to-day interaction and specific training and awareness.
• Establish and maintain relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
• Monitoring, assessment, and reporting of environmental aspects of the Waihi North Project and Operations.
• Support the preparation of consent applications as required.
• Participation in an on-call roster to provide 24/7 coverage for monitoring.