Title:  Environmental Advisor

Role Summary

The primary purpose is to support environmental compliance and permitting efforts at Eagle Mine and Humboldt Mill.

Main Responsibilities | Activities

•    Understand and ensure compliance with all operational regulatory requirements. 
•    Coordinate regulatory compliance activities effectively with appropriate personnel to ensure that Company and regulatory requirements are met, and that compliance issues are communicated and handled proactively with the regulatory agencies and inspectors.
•    Ensure all federal, state, and local environmental reporting is accurate and on time.
•    Oversee environmental contractors assisting with environmental compliance activities.
•    Participate in field data collection, organization, management and analysis. 
•    Operate and maintain field monitoring equipment.
•    Monitor operational and administrative compliance with Lundin Mining Responsible Mining Management System standards.
•    Provide day-to-day guidance on issues related to actual or potential environmental matters.
•    Participate in the investigation of environmental incidents.
•    Assist with employee training regarding site environmental issues and Eagle HSE Management System requirements.
•    Perform other duties as assigned.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

•    BS Degree in Environmental Sciences or an equivalent combination of education and experience preferred
•    2-4 years’ experience in a related field preferred
•    Prefer candidates with knowledge of Michigan specific mine, water, air, land, wetland, and waste management acts, rules, regulations, and guidelines
•    Proficiency with Microsoft Office preferred
•    Knowledge of state and federal regulatory agencies environmental permitting and compliance practices and procedures preferred.

Key Personal Competencies

•    Action Oriented - Initiates timely action to address important issues.
•    Collaborates - Encourages unity rather than us vs. them thinking
•    Communicates Effectively - Clear, concise, and professional in communication.
•    Decision Quality - Considers various inputs, criteria, and trade-offs to arrive at effective decisions and recommendations.
•    Ensures accountability - Follows through on commitments.
•    Manages Ambiguity - Accepts needed change despite the uncertainty it brings.

HSEC Accountabilities

Everyone in the workplace is responsible for his or her own safety and for the safety of their co-workers. Employees are responsible for performing all tasks in accordance with relevant HSEC Site Procedures, so as to work safely and keep the workplace safe.  Lundin Mining Company is responsible for determining steps required to ensure health and safety of all employees, protection of the environment, and the community. Specifically, all employees must:
•    Accept personal responsibility for HSEC
•    Identify hazards, unsafe actions, and conditions that could result in damage to property, injury, impacts to the environment, and the community
•    Obey any instruction issued to protect their own personal health and safety, and the health and safety of others, protection of the environment and the community. 
•    Report, as soon as practicable to their Manager any situations where HSEC requirements are not being conformed to within their work area
•    Avoid endangerment to any other person through any act or omission
•    Only use equipment you are trained to use and operate the equipment in a way that is safe, protects the environment and doesn’t cause undue community impacts. 
•    Participate in HSEC training provided to them
•    Report all incidents; including but not limited to injuries, near miss, community interactions and impacts, environmental impacts, spills, unsafe work practices, etc.