Environmental Operations Advisor

Our Environment & Regulatory team is currently seeking a field-based Contract Environmental Advisor supporting our oil sands facilities.

Reporting to the Senior Coordinator Environmental Operations, the Contract Environmental Advisor will provide field expertise and guidance related to management and monitoring of environmental approvals and activities at our oil sands facility.

The contractor will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Construction, Engineering and Well Delivery teams, as well as Calgary based regulatory teams to ensure environmental issues and approval conditions are understood and responsibly managed at the field level.

Deliverables

This position will be responsible for completing the below general list of deliverables:

* Participate in the field execution of environmental and regulatory activities, required to support our exploration, construction, and operations activities. Tasks will include, data collection, monitoring, sampling, equipment setup and removal, report writing as well as the management, and scheduling of 3rd party environmental contractors.

* Field environmental data collection will include tasks such as freshwater usage, lake level measurements, stream gaging, wildlife sweeps, soil sampling etc. These data will be collected using Cenovus standardized process, tools and record management.

* Advise and report, in consultation with Calgary based environmental advisors, on EPEA, Water Act, Public Lands Act, and all other related environmental compliance activities.

* Maintain current and emerging knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements and how they may potentially affect company business plans.

* Participate in process development specific to the environment group and execution of field environmental activities.

* Identify and communicate environmental risks to onsite environmental leadership and the accountable site leadership including proactive environmental issue identification.

* Provide field assistance and guidance for environmental risk assessments, incident mitigation (spills/releases/contraventions) and reporting (immediate notifications and follow up reports)

* Work and coordinate with Calgary & Field Environmental Advisors, third party environmental consultants and shared service providers to support the safe execution of field activities by managing field logistics, monitoring field activities to ensure all work is compliant with environmental regulatory requirements and provide environmental guidance/direction and environmental risk management advice.

* Support and/or conduct environmental audits and inspections.

Competencies

* The successful candidate will have a strong safety-first mindset and be a team player who collaborates well with partners within their team as well as with members of the exploration, construction, engineering and operations teams.

* Management and support to 3rd party environmental contractors, including safety aspects of their work will also be required competencies.

* Work tasks will generally be completed outdoors, in the varied climate and environmental settings, present in the Boreal Forest. As such the role will have some moderate physical demands.

Standard safety related training such as:

* Ground Disturbance Level 1 (Level 2 would be preferable)

* H2S Alive

* First Aid/CPR

This will be a field-based role. 8 days on, 6 days off rotation (Thursday-Thursday).