Principal Environmental Advisor

**Principal Environmental Advisor**:

- Job ID- 930453- Job Type- Permanent Full Time- Location- Australia - Brisbane- Categories- Environment and Community- Applications close- 19 Sep 2024 E. Australia Standard Time**Make your mark**

Everyday, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. take on big challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment.

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

**About The Role**

Are you passionate about environmental stewardship and ready to take on a leadership role in the mining industry? Thiess, a global leader in mining services, is seeking a Principal Environmental Advisor to drive excellence in environmental management across our Australian projects. This pivotal role offers an exciting opportunity to shape sustainable practices, mentor project-level environmental advisors, and elevate the importance of environmental management at our diverse mining sites. As a Principal Environmental Advisor, you'll be at the forefront of Thiess' commitment to pioneering a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Lead and mentor site environmental graduates and advisors, ensuring accountability for team contributions toward achieving environmental objectives.
- Provide strategic input to the Sustainability Strategy and manage its implementation across Thiess' Australian projects, including the development of annual business plans and KPIs.
- Offer technical expertise and support to ensure compliance with client and legislative environmental requirements, while assisting sites in managing environmental contractual matters.
- Manage internal environmental audits across Australian sites, developing governance processes, and representing Thiess on key industry committees.
- Support the development of new services, identify commercial opportunities, and provide essential environmental input for tender submissions, including risk assessments and cost estimates.

**About You***

You are an experienced professional with extensive mine site experience and a strong understanding of environmental challenges in the mining industry. Your exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, enable you to convey complex concepts clearly and persuasively. With high-level influencing abilities, you effectively engage stakeholders at all organisational levels, driving support for environmental initiatives. Your expertise positions you to enhance environmental management practices across Thiess' Australian projects.

**Additionally, you have**:

- Degree in Environmental Management/ Science or equivalent
- ISO 14001 environmental management system experience - development and
implementation.
- Experienced site environmental auditor
- Strong environmental legislative knowledge
- Sound understanding of mine site environmental issues
- Contracts Management Experience

**What Thiess can do for you**
- Help to build on your career, offering diverse opportunities to expand your skill set
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- Health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products

**About us**

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

The pioneering spirit of our founders - the legendary Thiess brothers - is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning - supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered.

**How to apply