[Hiring] Exploration Sustainability Lead @Barrick Gold Corporation

Role Description

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an exciting opportunity for you! Our Exploration division is growing, and we are looking for an Exploration Sustainability Lead to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for Sustainability across all Exploration activities in Canada, including:

• Environmental Stewardship
• Permitting
• Community Relations
• Social Performance

This role ensures that exploration programs are planned and executed in alignment with Barrick’s Sustainability Framework, corporate standards, and applicable regulatory requirements, while proactively managing environmental and social risks, supporting responsible permitting, and strengthening Barrick’s License to Operate (LTO) throughout the Canadian Exploration portfolio.

At Barrick, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as the primary sustainability interface for Canadian Exploration, working closely with North America Sustainability leadership, regulators, Indigenous Peoples, communities, and key external stakeholders.
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of sustainability strategies for Exploration across Canada.
• Provide strategic sustainability leadership and integrate sustainability considerations into exploration planning, budgeting, scheduling, and decision-making.
• Lead community relations and social performance, including stakeholder engagement, grievance mechanisms, and early-stage relationship building.
• Provide functional leadership and oversight for Exploration Permitting across Canada.
• Ensure exploration activities comply with applicable federal and provincial regulatory requirements and Barrick’s Environmental standards.
• Lead the identification, assessment, and management of environmental and social risks.
• Maintain sustainability performance reporting and provide analysis of trends, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.
• Promote a culture of responsible exploration, ethical conduct, environmental stewardship, and sustainability leadership.
• Collaborate closely with Exploration, Sustainability, Legal, Technical, Corporate Affairs, and other functional teams.
• Maintain EMS documentation, procedures, and requirements within the scope of the role.
• Identify and manage environmental aspects, impacts, risks, and opportunities.
• Report and support investigation of environmental incidents and non-compliances.
• Participate in environmental training, audits, and EMS improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Eligible to live and work in Canada (required)
• Fluent in English; French proficiency (preferred)
• Ability to comply with all Environmental, Health & Safety policies, standards, and regulatory requirements (required)
• Ability to identify, assess, control, and report workplace hazards and risks (required)
• Ability to maintain safe work areas, equipment, and practices (required)
• Ability to promote personal and collective accountability for health, safety, and environmental performance (required)
• This role involves frequent travel; candidates based within a reasonable commuting distance of airports in Ontario or Quebec are preferred.
• Ability to work remotely (required)

Benefits

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues.
• Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.
• Barrick is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.