Gm - Environment & Sustainability

• Melbourne location
• Lead, motivate, and support the Environment & Sustainability team
• Permanent full time role

The CompanyOur client focuses on offering repurposed materials while actively minimising waste and pollution through closed-loop resource recovery systems. They emphasise fostering partnerships and investing in technology to diminish environmental impact and promote a sustainable future.

The Role

The General Manager-Environment & Sustainability will be responsible for supporting the company in all facets of environmental compliance, environmental risk management and sustainability best practice.

The role includes working alongside the CEO and executive team to implement industry leading environmental best practices into the business. A key focus will be overseeing the rollout of an Environmental Management System and accreditation to ISO standards and ensuring that operations are compliant with a strong focus on stakeholder management with the EPA. The role will require establishing key roles and responsibilities for the environmental team and working on new projects that require regulatory approvals.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate, and support the Environment & Sustainability team while providing day to day guidance on project operations and associated tasks.
• Support the recruitment, selection, onboarding, and training of new team members.
• Oversee the development and implementation of environmental and sustainability strategies.
• Foster and strengthen existing client relationships and establish new clients and key stakeholders.
• Engage with key stakeholders and manage regulatory approvals where required.
• Oversee management of existing license compliance.
• Conduct Environmental Risk assessments and provide reports on recovered materials.
• Liaise directly with the EPA on new licensing requirements and projects including License amendments, new licenses, Section 30A’s, beneficial re use applications, and RDD requests for projects.
• Ensure that the Integrated Management System (IMS for Quality, OHS and Environmental or ISO9001, ISO45001 and ISO14001 respectively) is fully implemented, maintained and continually improved.

About youYou will be an ambitious and genuine leader with a passion for sustainability, technology, and operations. You will have demonstrated experience working in a similar position where you have worked in contaminated land and/or waste and environmental management along with experience in environmental assessment and Victorian EPA legislation. Your technical skills combined with your passion in the field and ability to build relationships with a range of stakeholders will see you succeed in this role.

In addition, you will possess:

• Degree in Environmental Engineering/Science or relevant discipline.
• Demonstrated experience working in the environmental field working to EPA regulations and requirements at a senior level.
• Demonstrated experience in a management position in the environmental field
• Experience with Victorian EPA legislation and approvals is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organising skills to coordinate project activities.
• Demonstrated budgetary and financial management.

How to ApplyApply now by submitting your current CV (in Word format) via our online application process.

For a confidential discussion or to review the information pack and full PD please contact Josh Gill via ****@talentnation.com.au.

To be eligible to apply, you must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.

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