Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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.

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Certificates: none

• Licenses: none

• Registrations: none

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.

Additional Information

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.