Environmental Advisor - Exploration & Monitoring

At Newmont Boddington Gold, our purpose is to bring value and improve lives through sustainable and responsible mining. We pride ourselves on our dedication to safety, environmental management, inclusion and diversity, and adding value and opportunity to our host communities. We are one of the largest gold producers in Australia and the World’s First Open Pit Gold Autonomous Haulage operation.

The benefits

• We offer you an industry-competitive remuneration package.
• You can live locally and go home every day or stay in our Village for your roster and DIDO. We’re located approximately an hour from the coast and Perth.
• Working 5:2:4:3 roster (9-day fortnight) there will be plenty of time to enjoy the lifestyle this roster can offer you.

What you will be doing

Reporting to the Environmental Superintendent, your role will involve supporting exploration activities and environmental monitoring to ensure compliance with environmental commitments and statutory requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing environmental risks and identifying opportunities for improvement to drive responsible and sustainable mining practices at Newmont Boddington Operations.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Provide guidance on environmental compliance and approval requirements to facilitate exploration activities.
• Support approvals, Site Disturbance Permits (SDP’s), Program of Works (PoW’s) for ongoing operations and exploration across the site as required.
• Coordinate site monitoring programs, schedule and reporting to ensure compliance with legal and other requirements for each monitoring type (water, air quality, etc.).
• Communicate environmental monitoring requirements to the Environmental Technicians to achieve compliance with the monitoring schedule.
• Assist technicians with field monitoring and training as required including water, fauna, dust and tailings monitoring.
• Participate in risk assessments and environmental management initiatives.
• Coordinate specialist studies (e.g. fauna & flora, dieback assessments, water abstraction, air quality) and predictive models (air, groundwater, noise & vibration, etc.) where necessary.
• Provide mentoring to personnel on site in environmental management through participating in workplace inspections.
• Provide specialist environmental knowledge to operational departments and business partners across site.
• Provide support to the site Heritage Advisor with ad-hoc heritage monitoring with Traditional Owners.

About you

• Your Tertiary qualification in Environment (Environmental Engineering/Science Degree, Diploma of Natural Resource Management) together with your strong organisational skills and focus on continuous improvement is key to your success in this role.
• You will have a proven track record to interpret environmental monitoring results and technical reports, for regulatory approvals and internal/external reports. 
• Experience in exploration activities will be highly regarded together with a sound awareness of the relevant Mining and Environmental Legislation.
• You will be a proactive and effective communicator with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment with both internal and external stakeholders.
• It will be beneficial if you have:
  • Experience or understanding of GIS software.
  • Experience in mining, exploration activities and/or rehabilitation planning.

Applications close on 14 March 2024.

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that allows every person to thrive, participate, grow, and proudly play an active role in achieving our strategy.

Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, placing and promoting the best individual for each position without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.

We invite women and applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply, particularly persons of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island descent. Newmont acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first Australians and respects their unique relationship with the land and sea, their culture, spiritual tradition and stories.

More About Newmont

• Website: http://www.newmont.com
• Lifecycle of a Mine: https://www.newmont.com/lifecycle-of-a-mine
• Blog: https://www.newmont.com/blog-stories/
• Annual sustainability report: https://www.newmont.com/sustainability/sustainability-reporting

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