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Mcarthur River Mine, Saskatchewan

• Oversight and preparation of budgets for SHEQ departments• Maintain positive relationships and coordinate site visits for the Environmental Quality Committee, which is comprised of representatives from the northern focal communities• Preparation of regulatory submissions regarding reclamation and waste rock management, site water management, contaminated sites, etc.• Preparation and submission of follow-up reports regarding deviations from the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 1996, The Mines Regulations, 2018, Saskatchewan Environmental Code and associated code chapters, the General Nuclear Safety and Control Regulations, etc.• Communication with regulatory agencies such as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment• Lead and coordinate inspections with regulatory bodies such the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety and Environment and Climate Change Canada• Manage/supervise 8 professionals collectively from the SHEQ departments• Execute on facility change control subject matter experts reviews, work notification and approvals, PM compliance approval as well as goods procurement and contractor management through the SAP system

Saskatoon

• Provide support to all Cameco operating mines/mills with respect to regulatory approvals and submissions • Undertake operational reviews to determine program redundancies • Conduct risk based reviews of operational containment systems• Act as regulatory support and contractor oversight to the former Beaverlodge uranium mine move to provincial Institutional Control Program• Provide site support with respect to quarterly and annual report reviews, NPRI review, etc.

Key Lake, Saskatchewan

Ensure management of environment and quality departments, including:• Oversight and preparation of budgets for environment and quality departments.• Company endorsed presentations within the northern focal communities on environmental matters.• Oversight and execution of the site audit program/plan.• Oversight to the corrective action process.• Participated in the transitioning of site from the ISO 14001:2004 standard to ISO 14001:2015.• Preparation of regulatory submissions regarding reclamation and tailings management, site water management, contaminated sites.• Communication with regulatory agencies such as the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.• Lead and coordinate inspections with regulatory bodies such the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Environment and Climate Change Canada.• Supervision of Environment and Quality department personnel.• Execute on facility change control subject matter experts reviews, work notification and approvals, PM compliance approval as well as good procurement and contractor procurement through the SAP system.

Key Lake, Saskatchewan

Responsibilities included:• Responsible for departmental budgeting, including variance reporting• Lead inspections with regulatory bodies such the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment and Environment and Climate Change Canada• Prepare and submission of regulatory applications.• Manage and oversight to environmental consultants, including stack air emissions consultants, hazardous waste consultants, EEM consultants, and general reclamation and earthworks contractors.• Participate, prepare and provide a review function for annual reports to regulators, annual management reviews, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations reporting, etc.• Oversight for the sight environmental management system (i.e. ISO 14001:2004).• Act as primary lead for the preparation of permit to operate renewals.• Supervision of environment department personnel.

Responsibilities included:• Monthly, quarterly and non-routine regulatory reporting.• Spill response, investigation and reporting.• Provided support for internal and external environmental auditing, as well as provided support during regulatory inspections.• Reclamation coordination and supervision, as well as terrestrial sampling projects coordination.• Supervision of environment technician personnel.

Saskatchewan And Alberta

Responsibilities included: • Monitor environmental compliance for a northern oil sands exploration project.• Report to the Saskatchewan and Alberta governments on non-compliance issues.• Prepared reports and proposals for government review and approval.• Assessed reclamation, supervise spill clean-up, surface water sampling and vegetation/site assessments.

Alberta, Canada

Responsibilities included:• Conducted pre/post burn monitoring primarily in the Rocky Mountain area.• Development of the vegetation monitoring protocols for prescribed wildfires.• Ground truth the Alberta forest fuels type map.

Alberta/British Columbia

Responsibilities included:• Salinity, CO2, H2S, well/formation pressure, pH and solid matter sampling of oil and gas wells.

Saskatchewan

Responsibilities included:• Green tree retention surveys in forestry cut blocks throughout the Weyerhaeuser FMA.• Rapid bio/riparian assessments and benthic invertebrate sampling in forestry impacted creeks.

Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba

Responsibilities included:• Parks, fisheries and wildlife compliance/enforcement in Nopiming Provincial Park.• Ensure resource compliance within the Lac du Bonnet district.

Technical Diploma, Forest Ecosystem Technology

Technical Diploma, Resource And Environmental Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology