Closure Lead

MinRes can offer you!

• Champion mine closure and lead an active role in shaping environmental strategy.
• We invest in your career, with a focus on leadership, upskilling, training and development programs.
• Live Your Best Life!  Our benefits offer you access to deals, support and discounts to help you unlock the important things in Life – Health, Family, Recreation and Your Future with MinRes.

The Opportunity

The Closure lead will be providing Life of Mine leadership on closure and rehabilitation, including studies, planning, and execution of mine closure and rehabilitation. You will play an integral role in Integrating closure into mine planning with a view to constantly reducing the business closure liability.  Collaborate with key stakeholders and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and effective risk management, whilst meaningfully engaging with our traditional owners in delivering on our closure commitments.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the studies program to drive timely, high quality baseline, feasibility and due diligence studies that reduce MinRes closure knowledge gaps and support regulatory approvals (waste, soil, water, Geotech, landform design, contaminated sites).
• Complete studies to schedule and budget while ensuring outputs meet quality and scope expectations.
• Lead the development of mine closure plans (and MDCPs) that integrate with mine planning and provide pragmatic solutions to closure challenges.
• Develop an integrated progressive rehabilitation and closure schedule that reduces closure liability and meets compliance expectations.
• Represent with critical closure stakeholders (particularly Traditional Owners) on closure outcomes and post-mining land use.
• Manage the closure cost estimation process, and tracking of MinRes closure liability, including reporting this to the Board and working with the finance team to ensure costs are built into financial models.
• Support the delivery of on-ground execution of closure works, including physical works and post-rehabilitation monitoring.
• Oversee the MinRes contaminated sites program including site investigations for historical or incident-related contamination risks.
• Meet regulatory guidance in respect to investigating, monitoring, and reporting on suspected contamination
• Contribute to clear, accurate internal and external reporting that articulates progress towards closure KPIs and objectives, risks and any key changes
• Ensure participation in industry working groups, conferences and forums to both promote MinRes and stay informed of industry best practice and opportunities for innovation or efficiency in closure management.
• Track and report on spend against budget to Senior Manager and finance team – ensure compliance to CAPEX and OPEX spend
• Ensure team record keeping interfaces with internal systems, making sure that information is current, relevant and accessible

What is required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Environmental Science / Engineering or related field
• Comprehensive understanding and ability to interpret environmental legislation, guidelines, standards and other requirements
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic and operational environmental advice across all business levels
• Ability to characterise and assess project and operational risks and determine appropriate management measures consistent with the risk profile
• Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, including conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to work within large multi-disciplinary teams and strong stakeholder engagement ability.

About Mineral Resources

MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX’s best-performing companies since listing in 2006.

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