HSECS Specialist

Website: www.anglogoldashanti.com   

Belong at AngloGold Ashanti Australia and make gold a part of your story. A story of exploring, mining, and processing one of the world’s most sought-after precious metals.

What we do goes beyond mining. We support communities in which we operate, championing environmental stewardship, and strengthen local and national economies. Come and be a part of our team, a team committed to building a better future. Be known. Be valued. Be recognised. 

About us

At AngloGold Ashanti, we pride ourselves on having a collaborative workplace that is focused on providing a safe and inclusive environment for all. We want to create an environment where people feel comfortable to bring their whole, authentic self to work and feel safe, respected, and valued while doing so.

AngloGold Ashanti is one of the world's largest gold producers with operations and projects spanning across four continents. Our globally diverse, world-class portfolio is supported by focused exploration in the established and new gold producing regions of the world. We offer a working environment that allows every employee to contribute, learn and flourish.

The Opportunity
 

At AngloGold Ashanti we celebrate diversity – diversity of thought and experience is important to us. We look for people who have an abundance of willingness and are up to the challenge of making a difference. With this in mind, if you feel that you may not tick all of the boxes below but believe you have something unique to contribute to our team, we strongly encourage you to apply – let’s have the conversation.

We currently have an exciting new venture, where we seek a HSECS Specialist to join the Global Greenfields Explorations (GFX) business unit. The role holds accountability for health, safety, environment, community and security disciplines, with a strong focus on safety and wellbeing.

Reporting to the Senior Sustainability Specialist, the role purpose is to ensure consistent application of HSECS standards, provides technical guidance, and builds capability across the global GFX team portfolio. The core orientation of this role is outward facing to the regions, with a strong focus on applying health and safety expertise into field programs and supporting the regional teams to align to GFX global sustainability systems. GFX processes, workflows and systems are also included within the responsibility of this role. The timeframe of focus for this role is 6-12 months looking ahead.

Based in Perth, this a permanent opportunity that operates on a 5/2 roster with international travel when required.

Accountabilities:

• Provide professional sustainability systems support to the GFX teams globally, providing services and advice to management, assisting them in implementing the short to medium-term exploration strategy.
• Support identification and management of risks and resolution of emerging issues and/or escalating issues.
• Support and implement an appropriate internal audit and review process for the critical risks associated with contractors and GFX field programs.
• Monitor activity and quality of critical risk management activities and escalate issues as required.
• Provide required reporting requirements on sustainability related activities, issues and performance against plan.
• Monitor and recommend improvements to enhance the effectiveness of the sustainability management system, requisite behaviours and practices.
• Identify and execute initiatives to support continuous improvement.
• Maintain incident response and investigation systems including action management assurance. Drive the quality of the investigations to drive a reduction in preventing reoccurrence.
• Review incident data, conduct analysis and identify trends, issues and opportunities to improve safety performance across the regions.
• Review effectiveness of sustainability and ESG initiatives and provide a suitable feedback loop to GFX management.
  
  

About You:

People are at the heart of everything we do. We want you to collaborate with us, share your ideas and feel confident to challenge the status quo. To be considered, we are looking for;

• A tertiary qualification in a Safety and Health related field or other relevant / complementary qualifications.

• Several years of experience in safety in mining, preferably with exposure to Greenfields Exploration activities. Additional exposure to health, environment, community and security would be well regarded.
• Practical baseline knowledge of exploration and mining including drilling operations, field activities, aviation and logistics, integrated management systems, and risk management. This includes specifically incident investigation, emergency management, and contractor HSECS management expertise.

• Display flexibility with regard to challenging tasks and assignment of priorities.
• Demonstrated and influential leadership in the management of safety, health, environment, security, cultural heritage, and stakeholder engagement.
• Sound cross-cultural and cross-functional communication skills.
• A willingness to work with a culturally diverse team base.
• Adhering and standing by our core values with a number one focus on safety.
• Proficient with Microsoft office suite, SharePoint, database management, risk assessment, incident management, emergency preparedness.
• Medically fit to work in remote locations and adherence to vaccinations in line with relevant risk profiles and adhere to annual travel medical reviews.
• Australian working rights and a current passport holder.
  
  

Culture and Benefits

Our workplace demonstrates dignity and respect for each other, we offer challenging work, competitive remuneration that is regularly adjusted to market conditions and career development opportunities. At AngloGold Ashanti, we consider learning as a shared responsibility, and your personal development is important to us.

Your new benefits will include:

• Fully Covered Top Tier Gold Cover Private Health Insurance for you and your family (not a discount or partial payment – fully paid)
• Flexible working policy
• Attractive Annual Bonus

• Opportunity to work for an endorsed WORK180, and an accredited Menopause Friendly employer

• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities and further study assistance

• Active committees driving a culture of Inclusion and Belonging
• Giving back to your community with Volunteering Leave

• Salary sacrifice and Novated Lease options
  
  

Our full list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by WORK180 can be seen on the WORK180 website.

AngloGold Ashanti recognises that standard recruitment processes are not accessible to everyone. If there are any accommodations or supports that would assist you in participating in the recruitment process for this role, please reach out to our Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity team at InclDiversityEquity@anglogoldashanti.com