Environmental Specialist - Swartklip at Anglo American

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Safety Leadership

• Conduct effectives safety shares at the start of all meetings
• Regularly participate in planned Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) engagements
• Know and follow Anglo American's Life Saving Golden rules, and demand 100% compliance with AA Golden Rules by all environmental team members
• Regularly support the field verification of Safety Critical Controls
• Complete a documented Pre-Task Risk Assessment (SLAM or Take 5) before starting any field work or physical task
• Formally coach and develop all environmental team members to ensure the effectiveness of their safety leadership (safety shares, VFL's, Life Saving Golden Rules; Field verification of safety critical controls, Pre-Task Risk Assessments)
• Formally include an assessment of safety leadership as a criteria in performance and talent assessments for environmental team members

Operational Planning

• Identification, evaluation and control of potential or actual impacts of the site on the environment.
• Design and implementation of necessary systems or processes to ensure compliance to applicable legislation, company standards and policy.
• Prediction of future environmental risks
• Development and implementation of long-term improvement plans

Work Management

Environmental Compliance (Legal & Group)

• Design, develop and maintain an environmental compliance program for the site (including inspections, internal & external audits and performance tracking) for all relevant regulatory (legal, license and permit conditions) and Group (Polices and Standards) requirements.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement plans to address identified compliance gaps; ensure close out and tracking of inspection and audit findings.
• Coordinate and monitor all internal and external communications and engagement obligations regarding site environmental compliance, including site visits, preparing and approving reports, making regulatory notifications etc.
• Quality check and endorsement of all environment compliance data captured for the site (including inspections and audit findings)
• Liaise with site and BU team members to track emerging changes to relevant local legal requirements

Environmental Risk Management

• Design, develop and maintain an Environmental Risk Management Program for the site in alignment with AA's ORM program and ISO 14001 requirements
• Maintain a list of material environmental risks (Site Environmental Risk Register or Environmental Aspects & Impacts Register etc);
• Implement processes to identify, implement and field verify critical controls for each material environmental risk
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement plans to address material environmental risks and/or gaps in implementation of critical controls

Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

• Design, develop and maintain an Environmental Management System that is aligned with the SHE Way and certified to ISO 14001
• Environmental Modelling (Impact Prediction)
• With the support of the Environmental Principal:
• Identify where environmental modelling capability may be required for the site in order to support proactive management of environmental risks
• Lead a process to build, maintain and utilize relevant environmental models in order to predict future environmental impacts and/or proactively coordinate and monitor key site environmental risks
• Develop environmental modelling capability in Environment team

Environmental Incident Management

• Develop and implement processes to identify, classify, investigate and report Environmental Incidents and Environmental Hazards across the site in accordance with Group requirements
• Lead the development and implementation of actions and improvement plans to address findings from incident investigations and to prevent repeat incidents
• Lead LFI investigations for Level 2 Environmental Incidents at the site
• Ensure all personnel are adequately trained and prepared for robust incident response.

Environmental Training and Awareness

• Design and implement a site wide environmental training and awareness program to ensure all employees and contractors have sufficient environmental training to work at the site
• Appoint and support environmental representatives in the Business Areas

Environmental Improvement & Project Work

• Ensure project work is aligned with broader Platinum Environment strategy.
• With the support of the Environmental Manager, translate multi-year strategic objectives into annual performance objectives and monitor progress.
• Assist with the identification, development & implementation of proactive improvement plans or projects to achieve targets or address key risks
• •Support obtaining relevant environmental authorizations for new or amended projects
• Implement commitments in environmental authorizations as part of the EMS.
• Provide routine updates to Management and Environment peers in functional structure.
• Coordinate and monitor specialist consultants accordingly.

Environment Team Management and Leadership

• Effectively coordinate and monitor the Environment team to establish a high-performance culture
• Coordinate and monitor team and individual objectives
• Support the development of team member knowledge and skills.
• Support the implementation of leading safety and sustainable development strategies and practice across mining and process operations and projects in Anglo American.

Feedback

Environmental Monitoring

• Design, develop and maintain an Environmental Monitoring Program for the site (ensure the site is doing the right monitoring; at the right locations; at the right frequency; and to the right standard)
• Lead a process to capture, review and analyse key monitoring results, in order to generate trends and assess compliance, environmental and/or other business implications
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement plans to address monitoring exceedances
• Manage all internal and external communications and engagement obligations regarding site environmental monitoring

Sustainability & Social

• Support delivery of the relevant BU and Group sustainability initiatives and activities
• Input into AAP Business Unit-level cross-functional integration on sustainability
• Contribute to building relationships with key stakeholders relevant to Finance and Strategy at a Business Unit level, ensuring engagements are consistent with Business Unit and Group sustainability initiatives and standards

People & Teams

• Support the development of, and ultimately implement, a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the teams that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity o Act as a role model and actively engage as a team member in all team processes
• Implement effective team leader and team member processes. Set clear and consistent expectations, encourage teams to challenge the status quo and strive for improvements
• Ensure that the discipline specific systems, symbols and behaviours reinforce desired culture and align with Anglo American values
• Lead day to day communications with teams
• Provide input for draft of communication materials, understand the operation's goals and directions
• Implement management processes for employee & contractor management within work area o Effectively allocate authorities and resources (time, people and budget)
• Hold individuals to account, in line with their role authority and accountability structures
• Develop team members o Ensure all members within the teams have the knowledge and skills to perform their roles
• Develop plans to address knowledge and skill gaps in the team through development and coaching
• Coordinate and monitor talent pipeline and proactively conduct recruitment
• Communicate performance requirements to teams and provide sight on employee achievements

Compliance

•  Ensure compliance of the discipline with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) requirements
• Ensure compliance of the discipline with Anglo American compliance requirements

This role is at a GBF 6 level reporting to the Section Manager SHE

Qualifications:

• Relevant Diploma or Degree in Environmental Science or equivalent
• Relevant Environmental Short-Course Certificates (such as ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) Standard, environmental auditing, environmental legislation etc).
• Relevant qualification related to general environmental management

Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience in mining/process environment in related field.

Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced coordination and problem-solving capabilities
• Advanced level of skills in understanding and working around cultural sensitivity
• Advanced level of skill in communication and stakeholder engagement
• Advanced knowledge of the cultural heritage laws and regulations
• Proficient level of skills in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint