Environmental Advisor

Date: Feb 7, 2023- Location: Boddington, WA, AU (Australia)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.
- Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements.

**What you will be doing**

The role is expected to support exploration and operations to ensure compliance with environmental commitments and statutory requirements, manage environmental risks and opportunities, and drive responsible and sustainable mining at Newmont Boddington Operations.

**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 important.

You will have a proven track record to interpret monitoring results and technical reports, for regulatory approvals and internal/external reports. Experience in exploration, rehabilitation, biological surveys, and incident reporting 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 also be beneficial if you have:

- Experience or understanding of GIS software
- Experience in mining, exploration activities and/or rehabilitation planning

**Key Accountabilities will include**
- Providing specialist environmental knowledge to operational departments and business partners across site.
- Overseeing exploration programs based on continuous improvement, compliance, and in line with regulatory approvals and site procedures.
- Participating in risk assessments and environmental management initiatives.
- Coordinating key projects associated with minimising environmental, heritage, enterprise, and social risks specific to the Boddington Gold Mine.
- Coordinating specialist studies (e.g. Fauna & Flora, Dieback Assessments, Water abstraction, Air Quality) and predictive models (Air, Groundwater, Noise & vibration etc.) where necessary.
- Completion and timely submission of compliance reports linked to State and Federal legislation.
- Assisting in obtaining regulatory approvals from DWER and DMIRS
- Facilitation of environmental incident reporting and generation of SMART corrective actions. Preparing documentation for incident reports and tracking the close-out of actions.
- Completing system and standard-specific audits and development of actions where deficiencies have been recognised.
- Providing mentoring to personnel on site in environmental management through participating in workplace inspections.
- Provide support to the site Heritage Advisor with ad-hoc heritage monitoring with Traditional Owners..

**Closing date: Tuesday 21st February 2023**

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**
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