JOB RESPONSIBILITES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Maximize the value of our natural resources, plant and equipment through:
- Contributing to safe work environment with a goal of no lost time injuries.
- Developing team members to increase value globally and within the team.
- Achieving or exceeding budget compliant targets for gold production.
- Achieving or exceeding budget compliant targets necessary for cost/tonne and AISC.
- Actively improving areas of safety and environmental protection and awareness.
- Contributing to departmental performance, in turn increasing milling OEE%.
- Conduct and assist with investigative and systematic testing for plant recovery improvements, cost reduction and/or plant throughput improvements.
- Attend a variety of production / metallurgy meetings and maintain required channels of communication.
- Coordinate and manage external consultants and resources as required.
- Help coordinate activities for metallurgical laboratory as required.
- Attend trainings/development programs and perform other reasonable duties required by the Company.
- Demonstrate at all times the OGC values of Respect, One Team, Contribute, and Knowledge.
- Adhere to Health, Safety, and Environmental policies. Contributes to the achievement of targets & objectives, and applies procedures, permits and instructions.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Position Qualification:
- Basic understanding of Health, Safety, and Environmental (HS&E) requirements.
- Basic knowledge of comminution, flotation, CIL, carbon handling, refining, cyanide destruction circuits.
- Basic knowledge of analytical and metallurgical laboratory operations.
- Basic knowledge of plant process control systems including advanced process control techniques.
- Basic knowledge of metallurgical accounting procedures and gold standards protocols.
- Advanced problem-solving skills with complex problems, including both definition of the problem and generation and evaluation of solutions.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, including goal setting and monitoring of both own and others’ performance.
- Knowledge of water treatment processes is beneficial.
- Skills & Abilities:
- Proven commitment to behaviour-based safety culture.
- Proven ability to interact with all levels of employees in a positive and cooperative manner for mutual success and the success of the company.
- Ability to develop processing parameters for optimum gold production.
- Ability to decide from a range of competing options where the outcomes are not entirely predictable.
- Ability to quantify economic benefits associated with proposed and implemented process modifications.
- Strong written and oral interpersonal skills, including motivating and harnessing the energies of others in a positive productive outcome.
- Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented and the ability to work with others in a team environment.
- Education and Experience:
- Degree in Mineral Processing, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, or other science related field(s).
- Two or more years of experience in ore processing operations preferred.
- Communication Skills:
- An advanced level of oral and written communication skills in English is required.
- The ability to write and review detailed technical reports is required.
- Mathematics Ability:
- College level mathematics skills required.
LEADERSHIP REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrate and promote OceanaGold’s behavior-based safety culture.
- Act in a manner that builds trust and demonstrates integrity.
- Develop and maintain a positive working relationship with others.
- Demonstrate high levels of accountability and employee empowerment.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to continuously improving the safe and efficient operation of the process. Act with a sense of urgency when troubleshooting and resolving problems, especially problems concerning safety and our license to operate.
Key Competencies:
- Quality Communication: Communicates regularly, both written and oral, in a wide range of forums to both operations and maintenance personnel
- Project Management: Coaches/supports others to manage improvement projects – required to track project progress and report
- Time Management: Able to pace own work. Able to work unsupervised. Capable of readjusting priorities when necessary.
- Managing/Directing People: Adopts a ‘supervisory’ role for TEAM Coordinators and the PDM Technicians.
- Team Member/Contributing to Team Success: Able to understand own role and how it contributes to the overall output and objectives of the business.
- Driving/Facilitating Change: Identify opportunities for improvement and deliver through implementation and the management of any associated change.
- Maintaining Work Standards: Creates/revises work standards. Requires changes/improvement to work practices as an outcome of TEAM improvement projects.
- Focus on Quality: Prepared to challenge the status quo. Demonstrates a high degree of attention to detail.
Physical Requirements:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, demonstrate manual dexterity, climb stairs, talk, hear, and see.
- Must be able to work shift work with 12-hour shifts.
- Occasionally may be required to lift moderately heavy objects (up to 50 pounds) during the workday.
- Work is in a surface mine plant setting, which may include exposure to extremes in temperature and humidity.
- Personal protective equipment is required when performing work in a mine environment, including hart hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, and as needed, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, protective clothing, gloves, and any other protective equipment as required.