Newmont has recently acquired Newcrest Mining creating the world’s leading gold mining company.
With operations around the world, our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities where we operate. We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported to bring their whole unique self to work. We bring out the best in each other, inspiring performance and a shared belief that what we do matters.
Our Red Chris mine is located on the traditional territory of the Tahltan and we encourage qualified applicants from the local communities to apply. We offer several designated marshalling points within BC including Nanaimo, Vancouver, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George, Smithers, and Calgary, AB.
The Red Chris Metallurgy team is now recruiting for a Senior Metallurgist with a competitive base salary between $125,800.00 - $148,000.00 with an additional short term incentive target of 15%. The offered base salary will be determined based on the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills and competencies with consideration to internal equity.
We are seeking an individual for a Fly-In, Fly-Out opportunity working on a two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off rotation.
Purpose of the Role
The Senior Metallurgist is tasked with ensuring that resources, capacity and capability are aligned with set work plans. They provide coaching, mentoring and development to team members to continuously improve their knowledge, skills and relationship interactions.
They provide technical support to the Operations group, while maintaining a safety-awareness, behaviour and cost commitment, consistent with Newmont’s Values.
Assists in providing input on short to medium term (0 to 3-month time horizon) planning regarding people, and technical requirements, while ensuring adherence to the plan and to maximum and sustainable profitability of the business.
Accountabilities
The Senior Metallurgist reports to the Chief Metallurgist and has 4 direct reports. Key to the role is the provision of planning and management of direct reports in execution of routine, and non-routine, daily activities to support the Operations Team. Ensuring the safe, cost-effective treatment of delivered ore tonnes, production of concentrate volumes and quality to the customer in accordance with forecasts.
Safety:
Demonstrate absolute commitment and leadership in providing a safe working environment by:
- Supporting the Safety Management System ensuring a safety-first work culture
- Participating in site safety initiatives and support these initiatives within the team
- Pro-actively monitoring behaviours in order to maintain a safe work environment
- Taking a proactive risk management approach to departmental tasks (i.e. recognize, analyze, respond to ensure risks are managed in accordance with company requirements)
- Ensuring standard work procedures and safe systems of work are understood, utilized and adhered to at all times, while monitoring for and reporting on non-compliance
- Ensuring personnel are trained to company standards to safely complete work requirements
- Lead safety/pre-start meetings and communicate expectations with a focus of continued improvement of the Health and Safety Management System and addressing concerns.
Leadership:
Demonstrate with the highest professional and ethical standards ensuring all actions are transparent and in accordance with Company policy:
- Upholds and follows Newmont’s values at all times ensuring a team-based culture between employees, departments and contractors is maintained
- Leads and develops direct reports through mentoring, coaching and training
- Coordinates work and matches competency with task requirements
- Conducts regular review of team members
- Recognize and support key personnel for career development; identify high potential personnel; support the performance review and management processes
- Effective and timely communication to ensure all team members understand the daily tasks and their importance
- Monitor agreed strategies to maximize operational efficiency
- Supports the Chief Metallurgist and able to cover when they are offsite
- Participates and approves risk management processes, e.g. FLHAs, JSEA and CCM
- Openly support Company policy regardless of personal views.
Technical:
- Demonstrate technical and conceptual excellence in anticipating problems and guiding team to deliver on section goals:
- Monitor and advise parameters for the metallurgical operation of the ore processing plant
- Drives idea generation sessions, implements continuous improvement and ensures project delivery
- Implement work plans that align to strategic plans, i.e. PoaP
- Monitor metallurgical advancements and recommend appropriate selection and
- implementation
- Monitor compliance with Newmont’s Metallurgical accounting standards
- Lead or participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for non-compliance and ensure corrective actions are implemented and monitored
- Perform regular trends analysis to ensure equipment and process health meets the metallurgical requirements
- Coordinates work and matches competency with tasks requirements
- Participate and approves risk management processes, e.g. FLHAs, JSEA and CCM
Planning & Scheduling:
- Provides the short-and medium-term inputs for production forecasting including but not limited to development of the weekly and three-monthly rolling plan
- Develops medium and short-term work plans to prioritize tasks and effectively allocate
- resources
- Deliver on objectives outlined in workplans aligned to the site business planning and PoaP
- Create and coordinate work plans and ensure resources are managed
- Manage workforce to ensure adequate competence across the team is maintained
- Works with the site teams to provide timely information on weekly, monthly and 3-monthly concentrate projections, including review of the trucking scheduled for the purposes of planning shipment forecasts.
What We Offer
We are committed to ensuring that our team members are kept healthy and safe. To achieve this, we provide comfortable on-site accommodations, including excellent balanced meals prepared by our culinary team. Team members can expect access to TV and Wi-Fi, our on-site gym and a variety of recreational activities.
All our team members are also rewarded with a host of great benefits, including:
- Travel allowance and arrangements made for transportation to and from site
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications
- Competitive Benefits and Registered Retirement Savings Plan matching program
- Ongoing training with continuous growth and development opportunities
It is important to note that the safety and wellbeing of our team is our top priority. As such, we promote a drug and alcohol-free work environment through the use of mandatory pre-employment drug and alcohol testing.
About You
Position requirements include, but are not limited to:
- BSc or BE in Extractive Metallurgy, Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related discipline is required
- Active P.Eng license is an asset
- 7 or more years of relevant industry experience required
- 2 or more years of direct supervisory experience is desired
Our Commitment to You
Newmont is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Underpinned by our values of Safety, Sustainability, Integrity, Responsibility and Inclusion, our commitment is to respect the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions, and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.
If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, submit your application through our website before the advertised closing date.
