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Reporting to: Mining Superintendent
Primary Responsibility:
- The mining supervisor is a critical role that is responsible for the direct supervision and instruction to the mining production crew. The supervisor is accountable to deliver the shifty mining production whilst maintaining a safe, productive and cost efficient work environment always.
The mining superintendent:
- Accountable for forty (40) direct reports – Including crew leading hand, mining operator and trainee’s
Duties & Responsibilities:
Technical Responsibilities:
- Personally abide by all Company Policies and Procedures.
- Ensure the mining operation compliance and execution is conducted in accordance with Capital Procedures and Standards
- Actively work with the other project departments to develop a mine plan that can deliver the daily/ weekly and monthly production targets as set in the mine plan are achieved
- Ensure crew manning is maintained to deliver the mining targets
- Ensure ongoing crew training and development to ensure adequate skill sets and redundancy are available across the crews to meet the production forecasts
- Escalate any issue that impose a roadblock to achieving the mining targets or pose a risk to safety and health
- Identify and initiate continuous improvement opportunities to realise a baseline improvement to Safety, Volume or Costs of the project.
Health, Safety, Environment and Quality:
- Present themselves fit for work with 100% compliance to the “fitness for work” policy.
- Demonstrate personal compliance with the instructions, policies, procedures and work instructions of Capital Mining
- Ensure all mining activity is conducted in line with Capital Procedures and Policies and any further direction issued from management or the client.
- Actively identify procedural noncompliance and train employees for correction
- Ensure hazard management plans are observed with controls implemented and followed
- Keep all statutory reporting including, toolbox talks, information briefs, area inspections and risk assessments, audits and investigation
- Active participation with health and safety committees
- Conduct daily safety inspections and audits to confirm safe and compliant mining operations
Continuous Improvement:
- Identify opportunities for production and process improvements in the mining area.
- Accountability, ownership and promotion of improvements identified.
Behavioral:
- Treat colleagues and employees with respect and consider the value of other opinions in the team
- Actively mentor less experienced team members to improve and become safer and more productive.
- Do not take part in the propagation of rumours and untruths.
- Continue to hold yourself and your team to the punctuality and standards set by Capital.
- Conduct development planning for operators to develop and obtain additional mining competencies, and efficiency improvement
Production:
- Actively participate when undertaking performance improvement or training.
- Achieve Daily/ weekly/ monthly spatial and volumetric production compliance +/- 5%
- Achieve production targets with a deliberate view to reducing operational cost and increasing efficiency
- Ensure all communication points are achieved such as shift toolboxes, handovers etc
- Ensure dig compliance to floor RL at Dig/Dump are within tolerance +/- 300mm
- Pit crest and toes are achieved with wall batter compliance within +/- 300mm
- Ensure all ramps are located correctly in x, y coordinates and that grades are with in tolerance +/- 1%
- Ensure the daily production run plan is followed and hot seat windows and shift changes are productive.
- All hauling routes are in specification with road surfaces and grades satisfactory for hauling.
Job Requirements
Knowledge & Skills Required:
- Commitment to safety and training
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to adapt to a constantly changing work environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong conceptual skills capable of translating into practical solutions
- Ability to lead and provide direction for a large team
- Ability to work under time pressures with competing priorities
- Hazard identification skills
Training & Education Required:
- Completion of Front-Line leadership course or equivalent
- Competencies in operation of earthmoving machinery
Experience Required:
- 5 year operating in a mining or earthmoving environment
- 2 years’ experience in a leadership position in a similar role.
Equipment Knowledge:
- Experience with and knowledge of best practice application of mining equipment
- Knowledge of the technical engineering planning process and key drivers for plan out puts
- Knowledge of geotechnical concepts in relation to mining environment