Environmental Manager / Mozambique

Role: Environmental Manager
Location: Afungi, Mozambique
Rate: Competitive
Duration: 12 months
Rotation: 28/28

Activities
• Ensure compliance with all relevant HSE requirements across works to promote a healthy and safe work environment.
• Ensures effective management of the environmental team on-site including consultants supporting the Project.
• Ensure compliance with Project environmental standards (including regulatory and lender) e.g. Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), Environmental Licenses, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Management Plans (EMP).
• Act as lead interface with relevant contractors team members regarding environmental management, compliance, audits, monitoring and associated activities, providing environmental and regulatory advice as required.
• Work with Contractors to ensure environmental plans, procedures and method statements are suitable, and monitor implementation to ensure compliance.
• Provide environmental advice and solutions related to aspects such as permitting/ licensing, air quality, noise, waste, hazardous materials, biodiversity, soil, drainage, erosion and sediment control, water quality, waste and rehabilitation.
• Establish a Verification and Assurance program and develop the necessary tools to support the implementation of such.
• Responsible for onsite environmental risk management, i.e. identification and implementation of measures to manage risk.
• Monitor ESMP implementation for conformance. Monitor controls are effective and drive improvements in environmental performance.
• Support internal, Government, private, and lender Audits as necessary.
• Coordinate EMP implementation/E&R performance monitoring activities regarding environmental matters with Site Construction Team.
• Owner of environmental data collected from the field. Establish and manage robust environmental data management systems.
• Provide on-going QA/QC of environmental data and reports, e.g. contractor environmental monthly reports.
• Develop environmental performance metrics, analyze and report trends to ensure continuous improvement.
• Environmental performance reporting as needed (e.g. daily field reports, input into resettlement monthly reports, bi-annual environmental performance reports, verification and assurance etc.).
• Ensure documentation and records management processes are maintained for tracking of environmental compliance and performance.
• Undertake regular data analysis to identify and highlight requirements or opportunities for performance improvement.
• Responsible for ensuring all environmental incidents are managed in accordance with incident management process.
• Maintain an up-to-date action tracker with actions resulting from incidents, audits, inspections, environmental observations, etc.
• Maintain environmental training matrix for contractors and staff and coordinate and provide training on environmental topics
• Develop environmental training materials in accordance with ESMP requirements and deliver environmental training to raise
environmental awareness within the workforce and monitor the effectiveness.
• Schedule and lead collation of toolbox talks and environmental awareness campaigns (internal and external).

Accountabilities
• In-field development and implementation of all ecology management/monitoring tasks
• Implementation of site reclamation requirements

Qualifications/Experience required
• 10 to 20 years of related experience is required.
•  University degree in Natural or Environmental Sciences, Natural Resource Management,
•  Environmental Engineering or some other technical field related to E&R management
• Experience regarding the environmental field preferably related to a construction or extractive, particularly O&G industry project
• Knowledge of Mozambique regulations desirable
• Excellent English speaking and writing skills required. Familiarity with Portuguese is desirable