Senior Mine Closure Consultant

Okane Consultants is an integrated engineering and geoscience consulting company with offices in Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. We help mining companies plan for the future, and embed sustainable social and environmental practices into their Life of Mine plans.

Why Choose Us?

We champion diversity and inclusion. We believe in flexibility, work-life balance, and an open-door approach to communication. We provide employees with the tools to succeed and grow with the company and benefits that ensure our employees have the means to feel fulfilled.

Okane's purpose is to 'Help Create a Better Tomorrow'. Our workplace culture is defined by the everyday behaviors of our team and driven by our core values:
Passionate, Thoughtful &
Caring, Smart &
Clever, Positive, and Humble.

Benefits at Okane

• Internal growth and advancement opportunities along with an annual allowance for professional development
• Collaboration with a multidisciplinary global team of technical and closure specialists
• Flexible working hours and working from home
  
• Competitive remuneration and performance incentive

Our Next Senior Mine Closure Consultant

Okane has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Mine Closure Consultant to join our Oceania team. This position will provide technical expertise to support the delivery of Okane's leading mine closure consulting services through an integrated life of mine approach. This is a full time role, available in Perth or Brisbane.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Conceptual design and strategic development of solutions:

• Collate and assist in preparation of technical documentation, proposals and reports in area of technical discipline.
• Provide peer and technical review of reports developed by others.
• Apply an understanding of environmental and engineering principles to progress and lead the delivery of new approaches to solve basic problems.
• Assist in development of closure costings, cost estimation and closure scheduling.
• Project management, client and contractor liaison.

Senior mentorship and guidance:

• Provide leadership and strategic direction within integrated mine closure projects.
• Actively assist in the development of conceptual models in support of mine waste storage facility closure plan development.
• Supervise the simulation of geochemical, hydrologic and hydrogeologic conditions for a given model domain developed through robust conceptual model analysis.

Client relationship management and project communication:

• Prepare for and hold workshops and risk assessments with variety of stakeholders and external project support.
• Interact competently with internal and external stakeholders of varying levels of expertise.
• Develop strong relationships with clients, foster existing client relationships, and leverage client relationships to generate new leads and opportunities or initiate referrals.

Demonstrate care about the wellbeing of yourself and others, through actively participating in occupational health and safety standards, activities and initiatives.

Job Requirements

• Embody Okane's Core Vision (Help Create a Better Tomorrow) and Values (Passionate, Smart and Clever, Positive, Thoughtful and Caring, and Humble).
• Experience preparing mining project approval applications with solid working knowledge of regulatory and legislative frameworks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and experience with technical report writing, technical data and design review, and technical report peer review.
• Demonstrated ability to competently use their initiative to resolve tasks or problems that arise.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (geo-technical, environmental, geo-environmental, mining ) or Science (geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, chemistry) or similar.
• Experience in mine closure and remediation either within Oceania or overseas.
• Mining, or client-side experience is considered an asset (but is not required ).
• Ability and willingness to coordinate with staff and clients in different time zones.
• Experience using relevant software packages including Drains, Siberia, Golden Surfer, Wepp, Deswik, Geostudio, Goldsim etc is considered an asset.
• Experience bu ilding and leading a team is considered an asset.

Our Commitment to Diversity &
Inclusion

Okaneis committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and has a sense of belonging. A diverse workforce is key to our success, and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose Okane as your employer of choice. If you require adjustments for the recruitment/interview process, please let the HR Team know and we will work with you to meet your needs. For more information about Inclusion, Diversity &
Equity, please click here

Application Deadline

We thank you for your interest in Okane, however only those candidates who are selected will be contacted.

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