Senior Lead, Environmental Assessment

The Senior Lead, Environment Assessment will provide professional leadership for project development activities related to planning and implementation of the environmental program, including:

• Ensuring that the Project is appropriately prepared to initiate a major regulatory approval process (EA/IA) in the provision of appropriate environmental dataset and completion of required studies for the updated mine design.
• Advance the major regulatory process by overseeing the environmental effects assessment through ensuring the appropriate integration of mine design.
• Planning and overseeing the execution of environmental studies and modelling to successfully meet the Project's environmental objectives and support the amendment of the Project's Environmental Assessment and existing permits to resume access construction and Project development.
• Leading continuous improvement efforts in the Project's environmental stewardship, climate change strategy, and design for closure, through a collaborative and multidisciplinary integration of environmental sciences, engineering study and design, mine planning, and the incorporation of Tahltan Knowledge and values.

Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, leading by example and fostering a proactive safety and sustainability culture based on common values of health, safety, environment, and communities (HSEC) shared by the owners.
• Manage the development, planning and execution of Environmental studies and assessment scopes, including the design and implementation of safe, cost effective, and stage-appropriate collection and analysis of environmental data; the management of a high-quality Project database for environmental data; and the integration of environmental data into engineering design.
• Lead collaborative and multidisciplinary efforts within the Project Team to ensure that mine planning and water, tailings and engineering studies appropriately integrate mitigations to address Climate Change impacts and align with the Project's Design for Closure approach as well as considerations for the major regulatory process and specifically the effects assessment.
• Working closely with the Manager, SERA, Senior Lead, Regulatory Affairs and consultants, advance the major regulatory process by leading the environmental effects assessment, through ensuring the appropriate integration of updated mine design
• Support and oversee the Lead Environment responsible with coordinating and executing the work required to successfully complete the environmental assessment studies with support from consultants, and the broader Galore Project team.
• Oversee activities related to Climate Change and Closure planning, and contribute to stage appropriate Project updates, in alignment with owners' requirements, ensuring appropriate Tahltan involvement and integration of information including Indigenous land use, cultural heritage, and Indigenous Peoples Knowledge, in particular Tahltan Knowledge., supported by the social responsibility team.
• Collaborate with Manager, SERA, and senior Project Team members to develop and deliver public facing messaging and communications for the Project, including representing the company at external events. Contribute to the development and implementation of external communications as the Project commences a feasibility study and enters a phase of increased Indigenous Peoples and COI engagement and growing public interest.
• Foster a culture of open communication, build relationships across the GCMC organization and externally; lead by example, and demonstrate honesty, sincerity, and openness to feedback.