Job DescriptionPosition Description:Barrick has an opening for a Director, Environmental Geoscience & Closure. This role provides enterprise-level technical leadership across North America for environmental geoscience, water stewardship, biodiversity, and mine closure across the asset lifecycle. The role serves as a senior technical authority for geoscience and environmental disciplines, ensuring strong scientific foundations, consistent standards, and high-quality technical inputs that support operating sites, projects, and assets transitioning through closure phases.
The position is accountable for strengthening geoscience and closure planning practices, guiding closure strategy and closure-related liabilities, and ensuring environmental and closure considerations are effectively integrated into business planning and financial frameworks. By maintaining technical rigor and influencing key decisions across the portfolio, this role supports regulatory confidence, operational continuity, and the long-term sustainability and financial resilience of the company's assets.
Responsibilities:- Set and govern enterprise standards for water stewardship, biodiversity, and mine closure across North America, ensuring consistent and defensible application across operating and transitioning assets.
- Provide technical authority over environmental risk and geoscience, including hydrogeologic models, ARD/ML risk classification, geochemical characterization, and GISTM environmental integration.
- Own technical oversight of closure planning and closure-related liabilities, including closure concepts, cost models, and alignment with ARO/SOX and enterprise risk frameworks.
- Lead closure strategy and technical rigor across the asset lifecycle, ensuring closure considerations are embedded early, progressively refined, and remain robust as sites move from operations through closure phases.
- Direct technical risk reviews for sites and projects, validating closure assumptions, monitoring and mitigation strategies, and long-term environmental performance requirements.
- Direct enterprise water stewardship and biodiversity risk management, including habitat disturbance accounting, offset strategies, and long-term liability mitigation.
- Embed environmental, closure, and biodiversity risk into business decisions, including capital planning, major project stage gates, and M&A due diligence, with escalation of material risks to executive leadership.
- Provide leadership and technical direction to specialist teams, building a high-credibility geoscience and closure function that supports consistent, defensible performance across the portfolio.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:- Advanced degree (MSc or higher preferred) in Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, or related discipline required
- 12-15+ years in mining or heavy industry environmental governance preferred
- Experience working across operating, closing, or post-operational sites, including long-term environmental risk management and closure performance evaluation preferred
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams preferred
- Familiarity with GISTM, IFRS/ARO frameworks, and enterprise risk systems. preferred
- Executive-level technical credibility required
- Ability to translate complex environmental risk into business implications required
- Strong cross-functional influence across Projects, Operations, Finance, and Legal preferred
- High accountability for defensibility and risk integrity required
- Comfort operating in high-liability environments required
- Eligible to live and work in the United State required
- Fluent in reading and writing, in English language required
- Fluent in reading and writing, in Spanish language preferred
What We Can Offer You - A comprehensive compensation package including a competitive medical, dental, and vision plan with national provider networks, a 401k retirement plan with employer contribution, paid time off, company-sponsored medical clinics, company match share purchase program, and much more!
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to grow and learn with the industry colleagues are endless.
- Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.
