Senior Officer: Biodiversity & Land Use

Duties

• To coordinate, protect and enhance the Company and surrounding environment regarding bio-diversity and biophysical monitoring, and to promote awareness and understanding amongst relevant stakeholders

Key Performance Areas:

• Draft, oversee and implement the Company Biodiversity Action Plan(s) (CBAP) to monitor key bio-diversity indicators and highlight any mitigation measures
• Oversee and implement the required restoration and rehabilitation trails in line with the Company Mine Closure Plan objectives
• Coordinate bio-diversity assessment, planning, implementation and capacity building for programs to enhance bio-diversity protection, including habitat management
• Incorporate bio-diversity into phases of the mining life cycle, in order to assess and measure the impacts of mining operations on bio-diversity and to improve bio-diversity checks in the mining life cycle and add value to the project as a whole, by means of bio-diversity risk reduction and / or mitigation
• Implement a plan for mine closure rehabilitation/restoration strategy and to acquire the resources to conduct the required test trials
• Provide technical/specialist guidance for scoping / impact assessments / land clearances with responsibility of collecting, analyzing and reporting biological / bio-diversity data
• Establish and oversee the GIS database and include GIS in the mining life cycle as part of the environment management system
• Conduct rigorous data analysis and prepare detailed reports, relating to achieving desirable results for bio-diversity
• Management of bio-diversity impacts through the enforcement of legislative compliance and planning for bio-diversity development process
• Implement environmental control and audit systems
• Coordinate and execute the environmental biodiversity and biophysical monitoring programmes
• Conduct regular quality checks on the bio-physical monitoring databases
• Investigate high level environmental incidents, analyse incident trends, interpret results, implement applicable environmental standards and report to government bodies, where applicable
• Regular review and updating of environmental procedures as per legislative requirements and best practice

Requisites

• BSc/BTech/BA Degree in Environment Management, Biodiversity or Natural Sciences
• An Honours Degree or equivalent will be an added advantage
• 5 years’ relevant experience of which 2 years should have been on a supervisory level
• Valid Code 08 Drivers License
• Off-road experience preferable

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted