Principal Environment

Worksite

1801 Wewatta Street, Denver, CO 80202. May work from home/telecommute on a hybrid schedule from a commutable distance.

Job Duties

• Support and improve environmental control frameworks across Legacy Assets by seeking improvements to Legacy Assets Level Environmental standards, procedures, and tools of the Control Framework.
• Oversee consultants performing work and studies on behalf of Legacy Assets that will deliver value to inform environment and climate issues.
• Coordinate the physical climate and environmental risk at an asset-level and work with the Legacy Assets team to ensure consistency.
• Enhance BHP’s resilience to physical impacts of climate change, climate resiliency, and mitigating environmental risks.
• Execute the actions leveraged from the Climate Change Collaboration working group, including: supporting peer-review initiatives and assurance activities, evaluating climate risk, evaluating changes to future climate projections, and financial disclosure reporting utilizing Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Framework.
• Work with the disciplines across the various regions to ensure agreed initiatives are progressing according to plan.
• Support Reporting and Assurance teams in the adoption of new corporate reporting requirements through compiling data into reports, reviewing report assets for compliance with internal and external guidance on reporting, and completing assessments for Legacy Asset sites using TCFD Framework.
• Organize preparation of annual water, biodiversity questionnaires, updating annual climate change reports, and supporting annual external financial disclosures.
• Provide input for the development of sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) for Legacy Assets to meet corporate targets.
• Monitor Legacy Assets progress against corporate environmental and climate targets.
• Provide input to preparation of Legacy Assets Sustainability Initiatives for Sustainability Reports.
• Support Legacy Assets applications of BHP Climate Change comprehensive series of metrics and targets as they apply to Legacy Assets.
• Apply applicable corporate initiatives to legacy assets through developing and implementing programs that identify climate risks and assess climate risk at each legacy site.
• Offer expertise on biodiversity, nature project planning, rehabilitation, and water stewardship activities for environmental programs.
• Manage and plan projects through establishing new vendors, approving purchase orders (POs), developing fiscal year work plans, and developing and maintaining project planning sheets including annual project workplans.
• May work from home/telecommute on a hybrid schedule from a commutable distance.
• 15% domestic and international travel required for hosting corporate visits and routine site visits.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in an environmental engineering or environmental science-related occupation.

Skills

Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:

• Risk management, including conducting risk assessments and implementing effective controls to manage environmental and operational hazards;
• Regulatory interpretation and compliance, integrating state, federal and international environmental requirements into project deliverables and performance evaluations;
• Leading environmental site assessments and remediation at mining or industrial sites and coordinating long-term monitoring of surface water and groundwater investigations;
• Interpreting technical data to coordinate air monitoring, waste management, and environmental sampling (soil, surface water, groundwater) programs;
• Crisis and Emergency Management with applied use of Incident Management and Incident Command System (ICS) frameworks; and
• Negotiating with diverse ranges of stakeholders to achieve effective environmental strategy implementation and communicating complex problems and policies to stakeholders with varying levels of expertise.

Offered Salary

$137,000 – $170,000 per year.

Benefits

BHP offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes 401K, medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, EAP, life and disability coverage, parental support, PTO and sick leave, tuition assistance.