Senior Environment Lead – Waihi Mine NZ (Residential)

OceanaGold; Waihi; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Residential role

Bonus

9-day fortnight

Retail discounts

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Gym membership

Long service

Values recognition

EAP

Respectful environment

Job summary

OceanaGold’s Waihi Operation in New Zealand seeks an experienced environment leader to direct environmental compliance, monitoring, rehabilitation and continuous improvement across the site. You will provide strategic and operational leadership to mitigate risks, meet consent obligations, and integrate environmental planning with operations.

You will lead the Environment Team, manage budgets, and build strong relationships with regulators, iwi, consultants and stakeholders to support responsible

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Ecology, Earth Sciences, or a related discipline.
• Full and current New Zealand Driver Licence; ability to operate manual vehicles preferred.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in environmental management within the mining, quarrying, natural resources, infrastructure or other highly regulated industries.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set clear objectives, develop capability and deliver outcomes through others.
• Strong knowledge of New Zealand environmental legislation and regulatory frameworks, including the Resource Management Act, planning processes, consent compliance and environmental approval pathways.
• Proven ability to develop, implement and maintain environmental management systems, including ISO 1401 or equivalent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation and continual improvement of environmental management systems, programmes and controls to ensure compliance with regulatory, consent, corporate and operational requirements.
• Provide leadership to foster a high-performing environmental culture that proactively identifies and manages risk, drives accountability and supports safe, sustainable and compliant operations.
• Develop and deliver environmental strategies, objectives, targets and work programmes aligned with corporate direction, legal obligations, operational priorities, site risks and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead, mentor and develop the operational Environment Team, ensuring appropriate capability, succession planning, performance management, training and resource allocation to support current and future operational requirements.
• Manage departmental operating and capital budgets, ensuring resources are allocated effectively and environmental objectives are delivered within approved expenditure limits.
• Ensure the timely preparation and submission of environmental monitoring, compliance and performance reporting requirements.
• Coordinate and oversee all environmental monitoring programmes, including surface water, groundwater, water quality, geochemical, air quality, noise, vibration, settlement, ecological and rehabilitation monitoring, ensuring monitoring is completed in accordance with consent conditions, management plans and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the investigation of environmental incidents, ensuring findings are documented and appropriate corrective and preventative actions are implemented and tracked to completion.
• Lead rehabilitation and closure planning activities, including annual rehabilitation work programmes, progressive rehabilitation implementation, rehabilitation performance monitoring and annual bond reviews.
• Manage relationships with regulators, consultants, technical reviewers and other external stakeholders to support compliance, environmental performance and successful approval outcomes.
• Ensure appropriate professional development or training plans are in place to meet safety and process requirements and to harness the skills, competencies and potential that exists within the team.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Environmental management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualification

Job description

OceanaGold’s Waihi Operation in New Zealand seeks an experienced environment leader to direct environmental compliance, monitoring, rehabilitation and continuous improvement across the site. You will provide strategic and operational leadership to mitigate risks, meet consent obligations, and integrate environmental planning with operations.

You will lead the Environment Team, manage budgets, and build strong relationships with regulators, iwi, consultants and stakeholders to support responsible