Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.
Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.
We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.
Note: While there is a strong preference for this role to be based in our Houston, TX office. We will also consider candidates located in Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton, Canada. Purpose:To continuously evolve and deliver Worley's environmental performance strategy and program of work. Where environmental performance refers to the company's climate change response, nature and biodiversity response, water, and waste management.
Responsibilities:- Keeps abreast of emerging trends in environmental performance and can apply these to Worley and communicate implications to the Worley leadership where appropriate.
- Develops the strategy for the continuous improvement of Worley's environmental performance.
- Implements Worley's environmental performance program of work, including ownership of:
- Worley's Environmental Management System
- Worley's overall energy management across operations and supporting locations with energy efficiency initiatives.
- Worley's Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction as part of our Scope 1 and 2 Net Zero Roadmap. This includes the setting of the annual emissions reduction target and communicating this to Worley leaders for inclusion in annual budget
- Worley's Scope 3 roadmap, data collection and reduction initiatives.
- Climate-related risks and opportunities, aligned with the requirements of regulatory requirements for the Worley Group (such as the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards and EU CSRD) working closely with the relevant functions.
- All other public environmental disclosures.
- Worley's Nature Action Plan and supporting locations to realise the plan.
- Annual disclosures aligned with the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
- Worley's initiatives to reduce waste and manage water use in our operations
- Leverage relevant internal resources such as Procurement, Property, Sustainability Champions, Advisian etc. to implement Worley's environmental program of work as outlined above.
- Works with the ESG Disclosures Manager to disclose Worley's environmental performance. This includes the Annual Report and ESG Data Center, ESG Ratings Agencies (including ownerships of the annual CDP submission), and other disclosure commitments (such as ISSB).
- Works with Treasury and other relevant functions to support the environmental KPIs of sustainability-linked finance.
- Works with other functions within Worley to further awareness of environmental issues within Worley. This could also include delivery of special projects, such as embedding sustainability thinking into projects (the Worley Sustainable Solutions Process).
- Supports other sustainability related initiatives as will arise from time to time, as directed by the Group Director, Sustainability Performance.
- Demonstrated expertise with developing climate scenarios (mitigation and physical).
- Demonstrated understanding of regional regulatory environmental reporting requirements.
- Experience assisting large complex organizations achieve significant environmental performance improvements such as energy efficiency.
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reductions, biodiversity, water, and waste management.
Program Management: - High functioning: Able to implement environmental performance programs to high standard including delivering outcomes to agreed standard and by committed deadlines.
- Engage appropriately: Able to identify key stakeholders and engage with them to win support for proposals and 'bring people along'.
Communication:- Identifies key stakeholders and engages appropriately to maximize program delivery outcomes.
- Keeps abreast of latest trends in environmental performance that may be of relevance to Worley.
IT Skills:- Advanced skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Ability to quickly pick up and navigate new systems and Apps.
People Skills:- Interpersonal: Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others
- Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small high caliber team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, deal with strict deadlines, able to prioritize workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.
- Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence, and tenacity.
- Analytical skills: This role requires an ability to think strategically, monitor the external context, and analyiz Worley's performance and programs to ensure continual improvement.
- Intellectual Capacity - Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies.
What you will bringQualifications, Accreditation, Training:Required:- 15+ years' experience in an environmental performance management, sustainability or related program or project management role.
- Solid project management skills and ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver outcomes to high standard.
- Associate's degree or higher in engineering, science, business, or another relevant discipline.
- Experience with Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is required.
- Scope 1,2, and 3 emissions experience. PLEASE NOTE: this position requires extensive experience with scope 1,2 AND 3 emissions reductions, biodiversity, water, and waste management.
- Advanced degrees in sustainability will be highly valued.
Preferred:- Experience in role(s) that work with many stakeholders with at times competing objectives.
- Solid understanding of Worley business or the industries Worley works with.
- Demonstrated expertise with developing climate scenarios (mitigation and physical).
- Demonstrated understanding of regional regulatory environmental reporting requirements.
- Experience assisting large complex organizations achieve significant environmental performance improvements such as energy efficiency gains.
Moving forward togetherWe want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.
We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Our policy is to conduct background checks for all candidates who accept an offer of employment with us.
Please note: No agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy.
