Principal Environment | Approvals | Nickel West | Perth
BHP
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About the Role
We currently have an opportunity to join our Health, Safety and Environment team as a Principal Environment – Approvals on a 2-year fixed term basis, based in Perth.
The role will be responsible for leading the delivery of environmental approvals for the Nickel West Transformation Program, in particular the Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter. The Nickel West Transformation Program was established to develop a response to the positive outlook for nickel demand that presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform Nickel West into an asset of BHP scale. In this role you will provide deep functional expertise, working with multidisciplinary teams within and external to the business to ensure relevant technical studies, surveys and supporting environmental approval documentation. The Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter follows a complex chemical and physical nickel smelting process to produce a nickel concentrate product for further processing at the Kwinana Nickel Refinery.
In this role you will:
- Lead the delivery of environment approvals through:
- The preparation and delivery of Part IV and Part V environmental approval documentation for submission to government;
- Provide an environmental advice for nickel smelting and refining processes to support high quality environmental approval documentation
- Support stakeholder engagement with Traditional Owners and State and Federal Government Departments;
- Provide strategic, tactical and technical environmental advice to project teams;
- Maintaining and continuing to improve business-wide standards for environmental approvals documentation;
- Effective collaboration across the business in relation to environmental approvals;
- Ensuring that appropriate interaction occurs with government, community and other stakeholders to satisfy environmental approval processes;
- Working with engineers, consultants and internal functions to ensure adherence to environmental approval schedules;
- Contributing to key environmental improvement projects; and
- Aligning deliverables with the BHP Charter, the BHP Our Requirements Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory requirements;
About You
To be successful in this role you will be able to work both independently and as part of a team. Attention to detail will be a vital attribute, along with strong business acumen and a passion for excellence.
You will also have:
- Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Management, Environmental Science or Environmental Engineering;
- Knowledge of State and Federal environmental approval requirements within the resources industry, with particular experience in Part IV environmental assessments;
- Extensive experience in environmental management and approvals, with experience in the minerals and metals processing;
- Experience engaging with Traditional Owner groups on environmental matters;
- Well-developed communication, interpersonal, negotiation and facilitation skills;
- Ability to build consultative and influential relationships with a wide range of stakeholders;
- Strong planning, organisational and time management skills; and
- Sound GIS capabilities will also be highly regarded.
This role is an exciting opportunity to build a broad range of skills in a future-facing commodity.
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