Mining Impact Assessment Adviser

**Mining Impact Assessment Adviser**

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Mining Impact Assessment Adviser (Full Time, Permanent) to join our team.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you'll be supported to build a rewarding career.

**Our perks and Benefits**:
At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be
as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that's why we offer a load of benefits.
- Flexible working
- Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise agreement
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility leave
- Yearly corporate wear allowance
- Professional development and educational assistance
- Remote Area Benefits based on work location
- Salary starting from Base $131,851 + Super
- And so much more

**What you'll do**:

- Ensure WaterNSW advice and decision making, and influence role is based on statutory requirements, industry best practice, sound science, rigorous assessments and reliable data.
- Monitor and verify compliance with relevant conditions on each of the major approvals (development consents, extraction plans/ subsidence management plans, mining leases and environment protection licences).
- Provide expert advice on mining related activities to ensure that the impacts on WaterNSW special areas, assets and operations are mitigated (prevented, minimised and/or offset).
- Prepare reports, briefs, policies and communications on mining issues to ensure that the proper course of action/decisions can be taken based on statutory requirements, sound science, rigorous assessments and reliable data.
- Provide expert advice relating to the assessment of mining state significant development (SSD), state significant infrastructure (SSI) projects and mining REF assessment (activities) where WaterNSW is the determining authority.
- Advise on the potential impact of mining activities to ensure appropriate protective and mitigation measures on the WaterNSW infrastructure assets are established to minimise risk.
- Support the development and implementation of policies and procedures relating to mining matters based on the contemporary science and the regulatory framework to ensure that risks to WaterNSW special areas, assets and operations are minimised.

**What we are looking for**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Planning/Engineering/ Science/Assessment/ Management/ Law or other relevant discipline.
- Comprehensive knowledge of government policies, regulatory frameworks and statutory requirements, with particular emphasis on mining and environmental management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the assessment and verification of mining-related data and impacts.
- Experience in working on mining related issues within sensitive environments.
- Experience in subsidence and environmental impact assessment and environmental monitoring and management of major mining projects with emphasis on longwall mining activities.
- Current Australian Driver's Licence

**How we will support you**:
At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility - and the way we work - with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals.

When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you're required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities

**More about our team/ culture**:
No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public.

**Who is WaterNSW?**

WaterNSW operates the state's dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution - for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state's water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.

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