Environmental Advisor

**Purpose of the Job**:

- To handle all HSEQ technically complex issues and provide HSEQ technical environmental inputs such as development of environmental scope of work for external consultants, development of regulatory submision document through alignment with permits and licenses, fielding of regulatory requests regarding the environment and maintenance of our environmental controls for all facilities to ensure that the business complies to all environmental requirements where it operates

**Who You Are**:

- You have ability to convert data into actionable information.
- You are a solution driven with extensive experience in environmental management
- Willing to learn, grow and prosper
- You are an independent thinker
- You have built a strong relationship with business and therefore understand their point of pain
- You are a self-starter and a driven individual
- You have excellent communication skills
- You have a reputation solving problems
- You are highly organized with good attention to detail
- You can multitask and works well within a team
- You can work well under pressure and maintains a professional attitude always

**What you’ll have done before**:

- Baseline:
- NQF Level 7 (Degree/BTech in Science or Engineering)
- 5 years in HSEQ Environmental field

Advantageous:
- NQF Level 8 (Honours in Science/ Engineering)
- Registration with a professional association (SACNASP or equivalent)
- 3 years’ experience Oil & Gas
- Knowledge of Environmental Legislation
- Technical knowledge of HSEQ Environment

**Exciting Challenges you might face in the role**:

- Engaging with different business units within Engen
- Engaging external stakeholders, including regulatory authorities
- Provide technical support to the business
- Manage multi stakeholder environmental projects

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Technical Support:
Stakeholder Management:
- To engage with local authorities on routine and planned engagements by liaising with the specialist where necessary to maintain and protect the integrity of the relationship between the business and regulatory authorities.

Training Support- To provide support and knowledge amongst the business through engagement and conducting training to line and all relevant stakeholders on key environmental issues and specific topics to ensure compliance amongst the business.

Assurance- Conduct internal environmental audits for facilities and provide technical support to line during external environmental audits (e.g. ISO 14004 audits) by ensuring that these are conducted within required standards and regulations in order to track and identify gap closures where required and to ensure system integrity.

Liaison with Business Partners:
- To support all environmental efforts of business partners, including capacity building, simplification of tasks, drawing up of consultant scope of work, support with regular government reporting and management the environmental systems on site. Manage the escalation of issues to the environmental specialists.

**Job Location: Durban**:
**Job Advert Closing Date**: All job adverts close five days after date posted

**Engen’s approved Employment Equity plans and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.**

**Important Information**:

- The appointment will be made in line with Engen's Employment Equity Strategy.
- Engen reserves the right not to make an appointment.

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