Red Chris - Supervisor - Mobile Maintenance

Explore the unknown:

Newcrest is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. As a global business, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported to bring their whole unique self to work.

We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop, and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work.

Our Red Chris mine is located on the traditional territory of the Tahltan and we encourage qualified applicants from the local communities to apply. We offer several designated marshalling points within BC including Nanaimo, Vancouver, Kelowna, Kamloops, Williams Lake, Prince George, Smithers, and Calgary, AB.

The Mobile Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for leading the Mobile Maintenance team to ensure all work is carried out in a safe, structured, agreed and timely manner. Ensure absolute compliance with legal requirement and company objectives and provide support to develop, coach and mentor team members to continuously improve their knowledge, skills and relationship interactions. Responsibility for identifying, escalating and managing impediments and developing issues to ensure delivery of work plans are achieved. Responsibility for enabling value and developing the leadership and technical competencies of the work teams, driving safety behaviors and attitudes.

Working 80% of the time on site business with a time horizon of 0 - 3 months.

We are seeking an individual for a Fly In, Fly Out opportunity working on a two weeks in, two weeks out rotation.

Accountabilities:

Safety, Health & Housekeeping

Demonstrate absolute commitment and leadership in providing a safe and healthy working environment:

• Supporting the Safety Management System , ensuring a safety-first work culture; applying site safety standards, procedures and policies
• Participating in site safety initiatives and supporting the agreed NewSafe behaviours in the team
• Ensuring adequate pro-active monitoring to maintain a safe work environment
• Instilling a culture of recognising hazards and minimising risk and consequential harm to employees
• Supporting investigation when work is stopped due to an unsafe act or condition, ensuring actions to mitigate the risk are implemented
• Taking a proactive risk management approach to departmental tasks, i.e., recognise, analyse, respond to ensure risks are at an acceptable level; ensuring that prior to work commencing an effective risk assessment and controls are in place and understood
• Maintaining a clean workplace, completing housekeeping tasks prior to the completion of the daily shifts
• Ensuring team members are authorised, qualified and competent to undertake the task/s; do not allow an inexperienced person to undertake tasks unsupervised
• Ensuring standard work procedures and safe systems of work are understood; enforcing compliance
• Ensuring personnel are adequately trained to safely complete work requirements; verifying work instructions are clear
• Ensuring safety/toolbox meeting are conducted at the appropriate frequency and quality with a focus of continued improvement of the Health and Safety Management System and addressing concerns.

Leadership, People & Development

Demonstrate the highest professional and ethical standards ensuring all actions are transparent and in accordance with company policy and values:

• Openly support Company policy regardless of personal views
• Recognises, respects and actively promotes diversity within the team
• Actively demonstrates respect for cultural and diversity views
• Ensuring all team members understand their tasks and their importance
• Recognising and supporting key personnel for career development / advancement; identifying high potential personnel and supporting the performance review and management processes
• Developing and supporting the team to continually improve the operational processes; developing and progressing Continuous Improvement projects
• Ensuring all personnel understand relevant operational strategies and goals; translating the vision into day to day activities, enabling the team to understand how they add value to the business
• Ensuring a team-based culture between employees, departments and contractors
• Consistent scheduled and structured development/coaching for career development / advancement
• Aligning behaviours in supporting the Code of Conduct, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Conflict of Interest and Fraud Prevention policies ensuring that self and team members comply with these
• Enforcing correct application of company disciplinary code, recruitment and promotion processes
• Counselling and performance management of poor performing team members
• Differentiating between the at-work environment and the off-work environment to enable effective supervision of subordinates

Maintenance Business Process (MBP)

Demonstrate commitment alignment to Newcrest's Maintenance business Process (MBP):

• Directly responsible for associated work in the following Main Work Centre
• RCMWLV - LV Mobile
• Reviewal and timely actioning of all corrective Work Notifications (WN) in responsible area
• Assistance in basic scoping of corrective tasks
• Attendance and active participation of Draft Schedule and Schedule Confirmation meetings
• Ownership of and responsibility for maintenance schedules (developed by the Maintenance Scheduler), ensuring compliance and prioritisation of planned work
• Management of all scheduled Corrective and PM work within the given scheduled week
• Management of all breakdown work in responsible area
• Assignment of all work to responsible work team
• Ensuring closure of all completed work orders in a timely manner, ensuring all relevant information has been captured and kept on the work order
• Ensure compliance of team to time confirmations on work orders
• Timely re-distribution of work to appropriate roles if requiring Replanning or Rescheduling, ensuring reasoning and recommendations moving forward
• Timely management of responsible Activity Report (AR) Notifications
• Attendance and active participation of KPI reviewal meetings
• Identifying and proposing improvement opportunities and projects that are to aligned business priorities, scoped, resourced and executed
• Actively driving adherence and governance to the MBP
• Mentorship of the wider maintenance group in the MBP

Qualifications & Experience:

• Trade certificate or experience in lieu of.
• 2 to 3 years experience in either lead hand or supervision role.
• Good computer skills, knowledge of SAP an asset.
• Good communication skills.
• Rotational camp experience an asset.

Behavioural Competencies:

Newcrest Behaviours

Consistently demonstrate the Newcrest values, and actively coach and encourage others to live our values

• We act with integrity and honesty
• We seek high performance in ourselves and others
• We work together
• We value innovation and problem solving
• We care about people

Other Behaviours

• Ability to positively influence individuals and wider group
• Ability to build engagement with the wider workforce
• High mental processing ability (MPA)
• Ability to effectively adapt to change when required
• Focus on working with team rather than the team working with the Supervisor
• Prioritise building trust for team development
• Lead by example

Technical Capabilities

Demonstrate technical and conceptual excellence in anticipating problems and guiding the team to deliver agreed departmental and business goals to ensure the value of the business is maintained or improved:

• Setting priorities and allocating work to competent personnel
• Collaborating with contractors and consultants to set up work for execution and monitor and report on completion
• Ensuring work is completed to the required quality and specification
• Ensuring work is commenced and completed in the agreed timeframe
• Ensuring feedback on all works completed is recorded, including opportunities for improvement

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of light vehicles including Ford F150 to 550, medium duty service trucks, on highway trucks, man lift devices, cranes, generators, pumps, small wheel loaders, telehandlers, fork lifts, skid steers, mini-ex and other related equipment.
• Caterpillar haul trucks, dozers, graders, Hitachi and Komatsu hydraulic excavators and shovels, P&H 2800XPB shovel and Sandvik drills

Our commitment to you:

At Newcrest, we hold core values that focus on caring about people, working together, and achieving a high-performance culture through innovation and problem solving.

Newcrest's commitment to diversity and inclusion respects both the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions, and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.

If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, please apply online before the advertised application closing date.