Role Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating and supporting the development and execution of provincial and federal permitting strategies, including preparation of written applications, reports, and formal correspondence with government agencies and regulatory authorities.
- Coordinating and leading internal engagement activities to foster NexGen’s culture of compliance management, including collaboration interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder team to ensure compliance obligations are understood.
- Facilitate, support, and track to completion the compilation of technical and management system information required to support applications for regulatory approval.
- Perform technical reviews of regulatory applications to confirm completeness and compliance.
- Prepare regulatory letters and meeting agendas, presentations, and minutes.
- Track regulatory correspondence and engagement.
- Administer and maintain compliance management databases and processes to track regulatory approval conditions and commitments; compliance management metrics; and changes to legal other requirements.
- Support the compilation and review of internal and external compliance management reports.
- Research regulatory requirements and industry best practices to continually improve permitting and compliance outcomes.
This position would ideally be based in the Saskatoon office, with travel as required. For the right candidate, the position could be located elsewhere, with the understanding that regular trips to Saskatoon would be required.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in natural sciences, engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years experience in permitting, compliance or related roles.
- Working knowledge of provincial and federal regulatory requirements applicable to mining. industry. Familiarity with Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission requirements considered an asset.
- Experience authoring and reviewing with technical and management system documentation.
- Experience with maintaining digital systems and databases.
- Experience with GIS software and mapping tools (e.g., ArcGIS) is considered an asset.
- Strong organizational and time-management abilities, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and detail-oriented.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and coordinate in a dynamic work environment.
- Strong Emotional Intelligence.
Core Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in natural sciences, engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years experience in permitting, compliance or related roles.
- Working knowledge of provincial and federal regulatory requirements applicable to mining. industry. Familiarity with Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission requirements considered an asset.
- Experience authoring and reviewing with technical and management system documentation.
- Experience with maintaining digital systems and databases.
- Experience with GIS software and mapping tools (e.g., ArcGIS) is considered an asset.
- Strong organizational and time-management abilities, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and detail-oriented.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and coordinate in a dynamic work environment.
- Strong Emotional Intelligence.
About NexGen
NexGen Energy is a Canadian company focused on optimally developing the Rook I Project into the largest, low-cost producing uranium mine globally, incorporating the highest levels of environmental and social governance. The Company has a strong portfolio of highly prospective projects, including the Company's 100% owned Rook I property that is host to the high-grade Arrow Deposit (discovered February, 2014), South Arrow (discovered July, 2017), Harpoon (discovered August, 2016), Bow (discovered March, 2015), and the Cannon area (discovered April, 2016).
NexGen is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXE and on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol NXG, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an operations office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.