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Discovery Silver Corp. has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Superintendent
A growing North America Precious Metals Company, Discovery is committed to combining high-quality gold producing assets in Canada with the world’s largest undeveloped silver deposit in Mexico.
Discovery has an experienced team, dedicated to being a highly profitable producer of gold and silver that generates superior returns, delivers substantial social-economic benefits and meets the highest environmental standards.
The Position:
Reporting to the Mill Manager, the Superintendent, Operations is a senior level role. The Superintendent’s primary objective is to ensure the safe execution of all business objectives. This includes overall responsibility and accountability for meeting milling production targets, metallurgical targets, budget/financial targets, rail activities (ore-haul) and concentrate shipping.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promotion of IRS and ensuring HSEC objectives for Kidd Operations employees are met.
- Implementing improvement strategies to ensure targets are achieved or exceeded.
- Coordinating with the Maintenance Superintendent to ensure appropriate time is afforded for preventative maintenance strategies.
- Working with the Lead Metallurgist to ensure that the operation both maximizes and optimizes metallurgical results, while meeting budget levels of consumption of reagents and media.
- Setting performance expectation rates for forecast, schedule and daily execution.
- Ensuring all front-line supervisors execute daily and weekly schedules.
- Creating annual budgets and forecasts and monitoring and tracking costs within said budgets.
- Recommending and implementing any recovery plans to address any deviation from targets and objectives.
Skills and Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate(s) will be a team player who possesses:
- 10+ years in a leadership capacity
- 5+ years Mill projects (concept, pre-feasibility and feasibility)
- Experience in financial and cost modeling
- Demonstrated ability to handle a varied workload in a fast-paced environment while leading teams to achieve deadlines
- Good oral and written communication skills
Compensation and Benefits:
Competitive total compensation package including:
- Health, Dental, Life, AD&D, Disability, Healthcare and Wellness Spending Accounts, Virtual Care and Employee and Family Assistance Program;
- Company contributions and matching into a Defined Contribution Pension Plan
Additional Information:
This posting is for an existing vacancy at Kidd Creek.
We thank all candidates in advance. Please note, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Discovery Silver welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including, but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities (racialized), aboriginal (Indigenous) persons and persons of any gender identity and sexual orientation. Discovery is committed to a positive, supportive, and inclusive environment.
Please note that we use artificial intelligence tools to screen applications and assess qualifications and selected candidates will be contacted by a human for an interview.
