Director of Environmental Services

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The Director of Environment Services will be responsible for leading Intrepid’s environmental compliance program. This role will provide strategic guidance, specialist advice and associated tools, processes and methodologies to implement integrated environmental management across Intrepid in line with company policies and statutory requirements. This will include developing and supporting practices to evaluate, measure, monitor, and manage business, operational and reputational environmental risks affecting Intrepid.

This person can be remote. Travel will be up to 50%.

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to Intrepid’s Environmental function.
• Leads a team of environmental and sustainability professionals and technical experts, including external consultants, responsible for the delivery of large and / or complex environmental projects including site remediation, management of contaminated sites and initiatives to improve environmental performance
• Lead the effort to maintain compliance with Intrepid permit and regulatory requirements by proactively identifying potential concerns and providing guidance on corrective actions
• Leads the execution of the environmental management and sustainability strategy for all owned and managed assets
• Develop and maintain professional and constructive working relationships with all regulatory personnel
• Serve as Intrepid representative during facility inspections and other visits by regulatory personnel
• Provide guidance and assistance to Intrepid Operations with determining and implementing best practice operational controls for environmental compliance
• Ensure all relevant environmental data, statistics and information required by management, government bodies and agencies are accurately compiled and produced in a timely manner as required
• Provide project management leadership for environmental project initiatives as required
• Engage and coordinate appropriate contractor resources as required
• Assist with management of budget and costs for the Intrepid Environmental Department
• Assist Senior Leadership with environmental program risk assessments as required
• Lead by example and champion core values, policies and procedures
• Continuously analyzing business processes, impact of legislation, business requirements and stakeholder views to evaluate risks and plan for the management of risk areas
• Evaluating the effectiveness, suitability and adequacy of environmental management at Intrepid
• Analyzing and interpreting information in order to guide the mine’s environmental strategy and reporting as per stakeholder requirements
• Developing, implementing and reviewing environmental related policies, procedures and plans for the Company in line with its strategic objectives
• Remaining informed of global trends and environmental standards of good practice and interpreting their relevance for Intrepid and its operations
• Drafting, reviewing and approval of scopes, budgets and schedules for departmental and consultant assignments, including the scoping, commissioning and managing of Environmental Impact Assessments which cover the foreseeable scale of Intrepid’s operations
• Providing assurance to internal and external stakeholders regarding the mine’s Environmental Management performance
• Supervising the environmental team by interpreting, organizing, executing and coordinating assignments.
• Managing the key performance areas of environmental practitioners in the company by setting and monitoring performance standards and correcting deviations
• Design and implement environmental assessment process and monitoring protocols.
• Design and monitor environmental programs using data trends and make necessary changes as needed. Manages the execution of environmental system audits.
• Develop and implement processes necessary to continuously…