Coeur Mining, Inc. is a well-diversified growing precious metals producer with five operations in North America. Coeur’s wholly-owned operations include the Palmarejo silver-gold complex in Mexico, the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead mine in British Columbia, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, and the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota. In addition, the Company owns the La Preciosa project in Mexico, a silver-gold exploration stage project. Coeur also conducts numerous exploration activities in North and South America. Coeur’s headquarters are located in Chicago, IL.
Coeur Silvertip located in British Columbia, just 10 miles south of the Yukon border is seeking a Environmental Superintendent to work in a camp-based environment rotating on 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off schedule. With a brownfield mine site currently focused on advanced exploration and development, the Environmental Superintendent is a key employee involved in the Environment department of the Silvertip Operation. Solid work ethics, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and a positive attitude are essential requirements for this position.
If you are motivated by unique challenges, change, working in a remote location and work-life balance with the flexibility of a rotational schedule, this opportunity is for you!
Environmental Duties
- Provide leadership to the environmental team at site, including scheduling, oversight, mentoring and direction.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure environmental controls comply with the established requirements by environmental authorities.
- Develops and implements strategies to ensure compliance with environmental policies, regulations, permits and licenses.
- Monitors and tracks compliance and provides guidance to site personal on matters related to permit conditions, reporting requirements and environmental compliance.
- Evaluates technical data to prepare and facilitate the preparation of permit applications, permit amendments, notice of work applications, work plans, assessments and regulatory reports.
- Monitor environmental activities related to air, water, meteorology, wildlife, reclamation, re-vegetation, sediment/erosion control, remediation systems, waste management and mine closure.
- Responsible for regulatory reporting, notifications and supporting permitting and ESG functions as required.
- Continuously monitor safety and environmental management to ensure we meet our Company standards.
- Maintains Water Stewardship Strategy to include all water management both inside and outside the property boundary, including: consumption, transport, treatment, discharge, measurement, permitting, accounting and reporting elements.
- Contribute to the preparation and updates to environmental plans and establishing strategies to improve the Company, personnel, and contractors´ performance.
- Establish and maintain professional and productive relations with Regional Regulatory Authorities and local communities.
- Coordinate the preparation of an annual capital and operations budget in regard to environmental activities.
- Coordinate the preparation of reports to compare actual results vs the budget and physicals and cost parameters.
Position Requirements:
- Understanding of and ability to apply provincial, territorial, and federal environmental law, including permitting, environmental policies and prevention policies.
- Experience with BC regulations and permits desirable.
- Working knowledge with various sampling techniques and reporting procedures for: air, meteorology, water, wildlife, reclamation, re-vegetation, sediment/erosion control, remediation systems, waste management and mine closure.
- Excellent organization and problem-solving ability. Demonstrates a serious commitment to accuracy, quality and detail while meeting goals or deadlines.
- Demonstrates strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with the senior management staff as a team player.
- Communicates effectively in both written and verbal formats.
- Provide guidance and leadership for all matters related to the environment to the mine site personnel.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required in Environmental Engineering, biology, geology and/or equivalent work experience.
- Preference given to those eligible for a professional BC designation such as P.Eng., P.Geo., or RP.Bio.
- Approximately 10-15 years of environmental management experience in mining, oil and gas, heavy industry, or the chemicals industry.
- Experience in relationship management with environmental and regulatory authorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including very strong negotiation skills.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
At Coeur, we PROTECT our people, places and planet, DEVELOP quality resources, growth and plans, and DELIVER impactful results through teamwork. The minimum annual base salary for this position is $130,000. To become a part of our team and to work together to tackle challenges head-on apply www.coeur.com/company/careers for this position.