Environmental Manager
Summary
Job Title: Environmental Manager
Location: Chetwynd, British Columbia
Language of Work: English
Start Date: When filled
Schedule / Terms of Employment: This is a full time (40 hours/week), permanent position
Primary Purpose
Reporting to the General Manager, The Environmental Manager supports the mine site operations team by providing planning assistance and ensuring site compliance with environmental permit conditions, applicable legislation, and stakeholder agreements.
Company Information
Conuma is a leading Canadian producer and exporter of metallurgical coal for the global steel industry. Products from our three mine operations in Northeastern BC, Brule, Willow Creek and Wolverine, leave us well-positioned to serve customers in South America, Europe and Asia.
Three time winner of the Edward Prior Mine Safety Award for the lowest injury frequency rate in British Columbia, Conuma continues to lead the industry with multi-million-dollar investments in the latest collision avoidance and fatigue monitoring safety technologies for the protection of our employees.
Conuma is much more than metallurgical coal. Conuma and its employees are embedded in our communities. The company’s Pay It Forward program began in 2017 and since then has raised over $425,000 in support of “Our Kids” at a Bolivian Orphanage and the Vancouver Children’s Foundation. Locally, Conuma’s employee winter hockey matches ensure much-needed donations to the Food Bank, while in the summer, our employees get together to assist the local high school teams as they prepare their go-karts for the Conuma Challenge.
Our local communities in Northeastern British Columbia are amongst some of the most beautiful surroundings in North America. At the Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark, employees can enjoy almost limitless hiking amongst some of Canada’s biggest waterfalls, ride through ATV and snowmobile trails, explore 97 million-year-old dinosaur footprints, ski cross-country trails, play ice-hockey, swim indoors and out, cycle, and enjoy the sense of community only a small town provides. An hour and a quarter away, Chetwynd is famous for its chainsaw wood carvings and offers a range of kayaking, snowmobiling and rock-climbing opportunities. Regarded as a wonderful place to raise a family, with affordable costs of living, Northeast British Columbia is the outdoor paradise our employees are proud to call home.
Responsibilities
- Manage environmental programs site-wide to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements, commitments and agreements with First Nations stakeholders.
- Ensure site is operated in compliance with permit and other regulatory requirements, Company’s Environmental Policy, Company’s Environmental Management System and Company’s environmental commitments to regulators, First Nations and other stakeholders.
- Implement and effectively communicate environmental policies and standards.
- Provide leading practice environmental services to support our core business.
- Conduct activities in accordance with company policies and values.
- Identify environmental risks associated with the site’s activities, products and services and communicate and implement approved risk mitigation measures. Complete environmental risk assessments whenever the company’s activities, products or services change in a way that might affect environmental aspects.
- Understand and interpret environmental permit and regulatory requirements for site staff and anticipate requirements for permit amendments to limit impacts to production.
- Project management (environmental works), departmental budget development and management.
- Analyze and interpret site-generated environmental data and direct internal and external reporting functions.
- Other duties as required.
Education, Experience, and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Earth/Environmental Science, Geochemistry, Environmental Engineering or a related discipline.
- 5 years of experience in implementing technical environmental programs, with experience in a management role.
- Broad-based experience with environmental aspects related to the mining industry, including but not limited to water quality, air quality, environmental effects monitoring, permitting, regulatory liaison and consultation with stakeholders and First Nations.
- Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams, including operational, engineering, and environmental staff, to meet operational objectives, develop programs to manage risks, meet corporate and stakeholder requirements and maintain compliance.
- Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with regulatory agencies, First Nations and other stakeholders.
- Experience with Environmental Management Systems.
Technical Competencies and Skills
- Working knowledge of environmental legislation relevant to mining in BC, including but not limited to the BC Mines Act, BC Environmental Management Act, federal Fisheries Act, federal Species at Risk Act, BC Wildlife Act.
- Competency in leading practice risk assessment and management approaches.
- Competency in implementing and maintaining Environmental Management Systems.
- Able to work independently and unsupervised.
- Strong interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong project and process management skills.
- Able to communicate and work well with adverse range of groups including operational, engineering, and environmental staff.
- Proficiency in communicating with regulators, First Nations and other stakeholders.
- Understanding and the ability to apply leading practice techniques and technologies related to environmental management at a mine site.
- Works in conjunction with Stakeholders to develop mutually beneficial plans and programs.
- Reports to regulating bodies on monitoring programs and compliance issues.
- Explains and presents difficult concepts and influences others to adopt a different point of view.
Leadership and Problem-Solving Capability
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Proven initiative and self-motivation.
- A positive attitude.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and within established timelines.
- Ability to manage and prioritize assignments.
- Demonstrated problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills.
- Lead by example to maintain high standards of conduct at workplace.
- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity skills.
- Be consistent and fair in decision making process.
- Proven conflict management skills.
Work Location / Travel
- Employee transportation is provided.
- Please be aware no camp facilities are available. Conuma believes in supporting our local communities by promoting them as a place for our employees to call home, not just a work place.
Wage and Benefits
Conuma provides competitive wages and benefits. Benefits include paid vacation, RRSP matching and extended healthcare.
Conuma Resources is an equal opportunity employer.
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