Principal Environmental Specialist

**Company Overview**:
People power our future. That is why advancing a dynamic, inclusive environment, where everyone grows and thrives is critically important to us.

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing offshore platforms hundreds of miles from shore, and using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Here, what you do matters.

**Job Overview**:
Working within the Onshore business, reporting to the Onshore Business Environmental Manager the Principal Environmental Specialist will be responsible for providing expert input and advice to the business function and projects on environmental management ensuring the implementation of global environmental systems for the Onshore operations.

At McDermott, we proudly work together to create and deliver innovative engineering and construction solutions for the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach to design and build infrastructure solutions to responsibly transport and transform natural resources into the products the world needs today. Because we’re powered by the most innovative minds, we rise to every challenge to make what was once just an idea a reality.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Ensure implementation of McDermott management systems
- Manage interfaces between McDermott, client and subcontractors as applicable
- Support FEED and projects as required
- Assist project management in preparation of environmental documents or plans, project kick off meetings, constructability reviews, readiness reviews, among others, as applicable
- Ensure sites within the business line identify environmental risks through the aspects and impacts or other risk reviews (e.g. ENVIDs) including identification of controls and objectives and targets to ensure those risks are managed
- Monitor, identify and communicate to the sites within the business line new and emerging local and applicable environmental regulation and requirements, including interpretation of theirs impacts to the business plan and provide solutions for adherence in a cost effective manner; provide updates as necessary to reflect changes in the legal and other regulations of the list of regulations applicable to the company’s operation
- Provide environmental expertise for pre-qualification and bids as applicable for business
- Provide technical and commercial support during tendering stage
- Ensure Global processes, practices, resources and tools are adequate to manage the environmental risks and regulatory compliance
- Support the planning and execution of the environmental assurance programs with QHSES assurance.
- Lead investigations of significant environmental incidents
- Ensure appropriate environmental resources are assigned to sites when required
- Prepare Environmental performance reports across the business line
- Ensure environmental training is included in onshore training matrix in coordination with QHSES training
- Support implementation of plans to meet business Objectives, Targets and Goals aligned to the corporate strategy
- Review Area MOCs related with Environmental as applicable to assess related risks and ensure proper mitigation
- Review the environmental Lessons Learned to ensure they are communicated and actions are implement, as needed, at the sites
- Support business ISO14001 external accreditation
- Supports business sustainability initiatives and reporting
- Supports the “Taking the Lead” and McDermott Operational Values (MOVs) program.
- Implementation of environmental program and activity plans.
- Mentoring and development of environmental personnel.
- Assist project management in preparation of environmental documents or plans, project kick off meetings, constructability reviews, readiness reviews, among others, as applicable
- Other duties related to environmental function, as directed by the Onshore Business Environmental Manager.

**Essential Qualifications and Education**:

- 8+ years environmental experience in oil and gas industry
- Degree in environmental science, management, engineering or other related field.
- Trained and experienced ISO 14001 standards internal or lead auditor
- Ability to work as a team member as well as act as team leader.
- Communication and presentation skills, both written and spoken.
- Be conversant with local and international environmental laws, regulations and norm

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