Head, Mining Optimization

Workplace Type: Hybrid - Remote/Onsite 

Posting End Date: 8 January 2024 

Founded in 1921 and publicly traded since 1925, Newmont (www.newmont.com) is one of the largest gold companies in the world. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company has approximately 24,000 employees and contractors, with the majority working at Newmont's core operations in the United States, Australia, Ghana, Peru and Suriname. Newmont is the only gold company listed in the S&P 500 index and in 2007 became the first gold company selected to be part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Newmont's industry leading performance is reflected through high standards in environmental management, health and safety for its employees and creating value and opportunity for host communities and shareholders.

About this role

The Head, Mining Optimization develops mine strategies, benchmarks standards, and pathways to support operational leadership optimize sustainable resource extraction.

Your role will consist of

 

Growth Strategy/Governance    

 

    Develop the mining optimization strategy, standards, guidelines, and tools. 
    Develop performance benchmarks and pathways to create value.
    Develop best practice pathways to achieve optimal resource extraction, minimize waste and optimize capital and resources.
    Provide governance and guidance to maintain effective deployment of the mining optimization plan for decision making and monitoring.
    Enhance value delivery across the operations by rapidly replicating best practice mining methods. 
    Establish and maintain improvement tools and systems to maximize the capability of the discipline.
    Working with the mine subdisciplines, develop integrated plans to optimize the mine value chain, outlining risks and consequences of options.
    Support strategic partnerships with suppliers and professional suppliers, leveraging opportunities.

 

Operations Excellence    

 

    Design an improvement plan for a 2–5-year time frame.
    Align BU priorities to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of mining optimisation opportunities. 
    Support the on- site teams to deliver changes outlined in the annual and medium-term plans.
    Develop tools and processes that provide a user experience that leverages the Newmont approach of right work, right roles undertaken in the right way and place.
    Develop optimal best practice plans and support operational leadership to implement. Includes monitoring performance and technical input into the mining plans.
    Consolidate mining performance at site and country/BUs to provide clarity of performance, challenges, opportunities and sharing of best practice.
    Analyze, interpret, and disseminate information to drive mining operational excellence.

 

Safety & Sustainability     

 

Drive safety and sustainability improvements through deployment of new systems and technologies that are authorised, sustainable, safe, and productive.

 

People     

 

    Lead a team of technical experts responsible for mining improvement activities.
    Develop technical knowledge and skill capabilities, providing feedback and coaching on performance and career development to the Managers and MORs within the operations.
    Engage inclusively, leaving everyone feeling valued and enabled to contribute so we drive value creation.
    Influence site and regional leaders, to accept and embrace and implement optimization programmes.
 

Your training, skills, and experience checklist

 

Knowledge    

 

    B.Sc in Mining Engineering
    Mine operations - experienced operational leader in mining industry and have had experience as Operational General Manager
    Mine technologies, tools, control systems
    Trends and value of differing control center configurations
    Underground & Surface Mine design and planning
    Drill & Blast- Underground and Surface
    Load and Haul practices and benchmarks
    Project Management fundamentals

 

Technical Skills    

 

    Advanced proficiency in practical aspects of day to day mine operations, within either surface and/ or underground to enable value add support to the site GM and operational teams.
    Advanced proficiency in taking methodologies, and technologies into the operations, understanding the impact and challenges of these changes upon many parts of the asset including social, sustainability and safety. 
    Advanced proficiency in mining operations including setting performance benchmarks for each component analysis and designing optimization activities.
    Competent pr