Environmental Advisor

The Environment Advisor is responsible for coordinating and providing functional environmental support to the Macraes Operation.  This role ensures compliance with statutory acts, regulations, consent conditions and company environmental standards. The Advisor - Environment is to provide environmental, site and consent knowledge across the site.Assist the operation to meet all regulatory and OceanaGold requirements, standards, and guidelines.Establish and manage time, focus and priorities to achieve individual and team performance goals.Monitor and keep up to date with changes in the regulatory environment.Liaise with personnel, consultants, auditors, and legal advisors to ensure company environmental performance and targets are achieved.Provide specialist environmental advice to projects and personnel as required. Represent the Environmental Department at site meetings as appropriate.Ensure site awareness of regulatory and statutory obligations through day-to-day interaction and specific training and awareness.Establish and maintain relationships with relevant external stakeholders.Present environmental focused information to external groups.Identify, plan and (if appropriate) implement environmental improvements.Monitoring, assessment, and reporting of environmental aspects of the Macraes Operation.Provide input into departmental and site reporting.Support the preparation of consent applications as required.Advise appropriate site personnel of any non-compliances, non-conformances or environmental irregularities and assist in resolutions.Carry out administrative functions (write reports, attend meetings, and disseminate information, complete purchase and service orders) commensurate with role.Participation in an on-call roster to provide 24/7 coverage for monitoring if required.Ensure appropriate management of covenants in line with consent conditions and relevant management plans.