Job Purpose
The Environment Officer plays a crucial role in supporting the Environment Advisor in managing the environmental components of the Projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee site environmental management during Package construction activities
- Ensure Compliance With the project’s Environmental Management System (EMS), Iraqi Legislation, International Standards (IFC), Company Referential, Approved Environmental Management Commitments
- Conduct environmental checks and inspections of the Contractor’s construction activities to ensure compliance
- Communicate environmental mitigatory controls to all personnel on-site to prevent and limit environmental impact from construction works
- Ensure that environmental impact and mitigation controls are effectively managed by the Package team and Contractors
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the Package Team and Contractors regarding environmental issues
- Oversee environmental matters from the construction phase through to the commissioning phase
Key Activities
Leadership:
- Provides environment advice, guidance and support to the Package Team within the Project perimeter
- Promotes environmental awareness and compliance with the relevant legislation and commitments on the worksites
- Supervision of contractors' environmental personnel and project team to ensure compliance
- Suggest and present to environment advisor improvement initiatives to the Environment Advisor
- Organize events and develop relevant material to promote environmental awareness
- Ensures implementation of the Project’s EMS and associated site implementation procedures e.g. air quality, biodiversity, waste management
- Checks that all Package Contractors and their Subcontractors are implementing their management plans and have the required resources to manage the environment components on site
- Supports the Environment Advisor to develop site monitoring/inspection checklists, records and reports
- Distributes environmental material e.g. wildlife identification/sighting guides, for the site, to communicate mitigation control requirements
- Ensures that all site personnel are aware of the applicable environment requirements for the Project and apply them
- Ensures the Contractor promotes a culture of environmental impact prevention and risk management throughout the construction activities
- Identifies potential environmental incidents/issues, and construction risks and takes the necessary measures to deal with them quickly and effectively
Support the HSE team to ensure Health and Safety procedures and policies are implemented by Package Team and Contractors.
Competency and Training:
Inform Package Team and stakeholders about environment management and best practices by: Undertaking routine toolbox talks, and awareness campaigns; Ensuring similar programme's and tools are deployed by the Contractors on their worksites.
Emergency Preparedness:
- Play an active and advisory role in the emergency response team onsite
- Provides awareness sessions to prevent environmental incidents
- Check Contractor’s Spill Response Plan controls and equipment on all sites to ensure compliance with Project Spill Response Plan requirements
- Participates in emergency response exercises as required
Ensures that environmental incidents are reported and managed as per the Project’s HSE incident investigation procedure.
Audits and Inspections:
- Ensures regular checks, and inspections are conducted on-site to monitor environmental performance
- Ensures the Contractor conducts site inspections & checks their reports for compliance
Requirements
Experience and Education:
- Professional environmental qualification at Diploma/Degree level minimum (e.g. Environmental Science)
- Minimum 5 years’ environment management experience working on site preferably within the oil and gas industry
- Previous experience of working in a culturally diverse site with adverse and sensitive environmental conditions whilst ensuring that the Project personnel and Contractors adhere to the environmental regulations and Company requirements
- Good knowledge of environmental impact Assessment, management plans site monitoring techniques and associated international legislation and standards specifically ISO14001 and IFC standards
- Familiarity with the National Iraqi Regulatory Framework and Company referential framework (Rules, Specifications, Guides) is an advantage
- Experience in supervising Contractors to prevent and limit impacts on the environment from construction activities
- Good understanding of the construction activities associated with the installation
- Experience in checking Contractor’s environment controls are implemented on site
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Competent in quick and effective decision-making and responding to the needs of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to proactively drive positive change and improvement initiatives
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English Spoken and written Arabic is an advantage
- Good computer skills with proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.