Make an impact at an all-North American precious metals producer. New Gold is now part of Coeur Mining. Visit www.coeur.com to learn more.
Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:
- A stimulating values-based work environment
- A culture of collaboration and inclusion
- Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Career development opportunities
- A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement
- A competitive total compensation program
- A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan
About Coeur Mining:
Coeur Mining is a growing, all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, Canada, and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.
Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture built on safety, collaboration, and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.
New Afton
Situated 10 kilometers west of Kamloops, British Columbia, the New Afton mine is an underground gold and copper producing site.
Kamloops is a city of 105,000 people, located 350 kilometers east of Vancouver. The area provides the opportunity to live and work in a vibrant community with its own university and within easy reach of world class ski resorts, championship golf courses, mountain biking trails, popular recreational lakes and award-winning vineyards.
About The Role
Schedule: 5x2, Monday to Friday or 4X3, flexibility in schedule available
Position Reports To: Senior Mine Engineer / Lead Engineer
Position Overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity for one Engineering student to join our Technical Services department for an 8, 12 or 16-month work term commencing September 2026, to assist the Mine Planning and Ventilation teams. This is an opportunity for a full-time engineering student who has a safety-oriented mindset to gain experience in an operating, block cave mine.
Block Caving
New Afton Mine is currently the only operating block cave mine in Canada. Block Caving is an underground mass mining method that allows the extraction of larger and lower grade deposits than traditional underground mining methods. As many of the worlds large surface mines continue to exhaust their viable open pit reserves and new surface deposits continue to decrease, block caving will provide an economical method for continuing to mine these large deposits underground.
Block Caving presents some of the most complex technical challenges in mining. See New Afton’s Animated Block Caving video for more information.
Key Responsibilities
Mine Planning/Ventilation
- Updating and issuing mine development and ventilation prints
- QA/QC of mine development and construction projects
- Assisting with design work and other mine planning activities
- Assisting the ventilation engineer in completing ventilation audits, balancing airflows, monitoring gases, and efficient implementation of the Ventilation on Demand system
- Monthly drafting of updated refuge stations, egress plans and vent flows
- Assisting in the ongoing calibration of Ventsim model
- Assuring that adequate underground ventilation needs are maintained
Production Support
- Updating and issuing short term production plans
- Assisting in updating medium and long-term production plans
- QA/QC of production data
- Management of data in Deswik.OPS and Deswik.ORB
- Underground inspections of production areas
- Assisting geology with geological inspections
Qualifications
- Qualified candidates must be enrolled full time at an accredited university
- Candidates will have completed at minimum their first year of study in an Undergraduate Engineering program, preference given to those enrolled in Mining or Geological Engineering
- Preference will be given to candidates enrolled in a post-secondary co-op program
- Preference will be given to candidates with relevant co-op work experience
- The successful candidate will have the ability to adapt quickly to a new environment and work independently or as a team
- Candidates looking for an 8, 12 or 16-month term are preferred; please provide length of work term availability in cover letter. Preference will be given to candidates that can complete a 12 or 16 month internship.
- Applicants must possess a valid Driver’s License and have access to personal transportation. Ability to drive a manual drive vehicle is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with 3D design software (Deswik Suite), PowerBi, and Microsoft Excel would be an asset.
Compensation
The anticipated salary for this position is between $52,000 to $64,480. This is not a camp operation and therefore the successful candidate will be required to relocate to the Kamloops area.
To Apply
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their cover letter and resume outlining their education, experience, and qualifications through our website at www.newgold.com in Word or PDF format no later than 11:59pm on August 6, 2026.
Inclusion, Equal Opportunity, Accessibility
New Gold is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Indigenous status or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.
