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Brisbane City, QLD, AU

Brisbane, Australia

Providing expert environmental solutions to the resources and manufacturing industries, the planning & development sectors and agribusiness.

Brisbane, Australia

Providing expert environmental solutions to the resource industry, planning & development sectors and agribusiness.

Brisbane, Australia

Providing specialist environmental services and strategies to the mining and manufacturing sectors.

Brisbane, Australia

• Responsible for the development and implementation of environment strategy for Rio Tinto Coal Australia’s Queensland and New South Wales operations.Key Achievements:
• Engaging with regulators and site personnel to successfully minimise production losses arising from flooding during the 2010/11 and 2011/12 extreme wet seasons; including the introduction of wet-season preparedness.
• Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of closure planning at RTCA and improving the process of annual closure cost estimation for the purposes of provisioning, asset valuation and security bonding
• Ensuring strong relationships with external government environmental and related agencies, and relevant industry bodies in Queensland and NSW
• Represent RTCA and Energy and Minerals product group perspectives at various Rio Tinto global fora
• Maintain and improve RTCA’s ISO14001 certified HSEC Management System

Brisbane

• Reporting to the CEO; provide policy, strategic and operational support and advice to the Executive and Board of Cement Australia on all matters relating to sustainability and climate change.Key achievements:
• Complete closure and relinquishment of the Calcium limestone mining operations near Mt Morgan as well as a number of associated mineral mining operations.
• Complete rehabilitation and relinquishment of QCL’s Moreton Bay mineral dredging leases
• Facilitate the management of various projects using Holcim’s Project Management Approach
• Establish a WBCSD and NGERS compliant carbon dioxide reporting system integrated with Cement Australia’s business enterprise management system
• Engage with Australian and State governments with respect to sustainability and climate change issues

Canberra, Australia

• Reporting to the Board of the Cement Industry Federation, maintain ongoing projects and industry engagement activities while a replacement Chief Executive Officer being recruited. Key responsibilities:
• Manage all aspects of CIF business
• Liaise with member CEO’s and CFO’s to present the industry’s position with respect to the Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) policy to key Australian government ministers; successfully excluding domestic resource use.
• Provide handover advice to the incoming CEO candidate

Canberra, A

• Providing technical and policy support to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of the CIF on all matters relating to environment and sustainability within the Australian Cement industry. Key responsibilities:
• Engage with key government departments, ministers and ministerial staff on policy issues of relevance to the cement industry
• Provide executive support to the CIF Sustainability Task Force
• Administer the industry’s Greenhouse Challenge Plus aggregate agreement including member liaison and training
• Draft the CIF bi-annual sustainability report
• Draft industry position statements and submissions in relation to State and Federal government policy and legislative proposals

Brisbane, Australia

• Provide strategic and operational support and advice to the executive management, Board and Board committees, as well as all company operations in relation to environmental management issues.Key achievements:
• Co-draft/draft and release the 1998, 1999 and 2000 public environmental/sustainability reports for the QCL Group
• Design and implement an all-risks, intranet–based incident reporting system subsequently adopted by Holcim companies in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
• Recipient of 2001 QCL Group Excellence Award for development and implementation of the incident reporting and document/data collection systems developed

Masters Of Environmental Management, Management

Be(Agr), Engineering

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