Carlin - Manager, Maintenance Engineering

Position Description:

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Manager, Maintenance Engineering at our Carlin processing operations consisting of two roaster facilities, one autoclave facility, one concentrator, and three heap leach CIC plants. Reporting to the Processing Manager and working in close collaboration with the Plant Managers, the Manager, Maintenance Engineering oversees the integrity and statutory requirements of all processing assets, key infrastructure improvement plans, maintenance improvement plans, and reliability improvement processes for the processing facilities.

The role leads the engineering, reliability, and planning teams across the Carlin processing plants to drive a program of work in support of improved equipment reliability, asset integrity, compliance, process safety, and asset performance. The role is accountable for engineering standards, compliance, management of change and document control, and is responsible for administering the site-wide critical risk register. The engineering team owns the technical specifications of the fixed plant infrastructure, and this role ensures the provision of quality in-house technical expertise. The Manager, Maintenance Engineering is also responsible for the development and management of the Life of Mine sustaining capital plans for the plants, budgets and forecasts, and supporting the plant managers in the prioritization of projects for maximum business benefit. The role has “dotted line” oversight to process maintenance execution.

At Nevada Gold Mines, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment, sending every person home safe and healthy every day, and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities. 

Responsibilities:

• Drive safety mindset through Visible Felt Leadership and engagement of front-line teams, ensuring effective participation by the engineering team in site programs including field level risk assessments (FLRA), Team Risk Assessments (TRA), Field Interactions, and Fatal Risk Audits.
• Direct accountability for maintenance planning, engineering, reliability, small capital improvement projects (low value or simple in complexity), Process Control and Operational Technology, and operational excellence / improvement across the Carlin Processing Facilities.
• Perform a maintenance systems governance function for Carlin Processing.
• Provide an operational excellence function focusing on integrating safe operational targets and maintenance plans at all levels of the business.
• Be the Carlin processing champion for material risks, insurance audits, and process safety improvements, and work with the management team to ensure Fatal Risk Management controls are embedded.
• Be the custodian of the defect elimination process. 
• Coach and develop all direct and once-removed employees.
• Mentor and guide the plant managers, particularly those with a non-maintenance background.
• Provide a coaching and development service to the mechanical and electrical superintendents reporting to the plant managers.
• Continuously improve asset management structures, systems and compliance of such.
• Outage optimization and improvement.
• Be a driver of innovation both within operations and maintenance.
• Maintenance LOM budgeting, including improvements in standards in cost control and reporting.
• Enable and implement improvement initiatives through Carlin, NGM, and industry benchmarking. 
• Ensure quality and efficiency at all project stages - planning, justification, design, approval, construction, commissioning, and turnover – applying both company practices as well as industry codes and standards.
• Manage the interface with the Capital Projects team on larger projects to ensure seamless development, execution, and operational readiness.
• Serve as coverage for either the Carlin Processing Manager or either of the plant manager roles.