Superintendent - Maintenance (Engineering) - Philippines, Cagayan Valley, Pilipinas - OceanaGold Corporation

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Company Description

OceanaGold is a growing intermediate gold and copper producer committed to safely and responsibly maximizing the generation of Free Cash Flow from our operations and delivering strong returns for our shareholders.

We have a portfolio of four operating mines: the Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America; Didipio Mine in the Philippines; and the Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand. Our operations are supported by a global workforce with significant exploration, development and operating experience.

Our Purpose is mining gold for a better future. The gold, copper, and silver we produce are essential to the renewable energy and transport sectors, life-saving medical devices and technology which connects communities around the world. Our activities also contribute to economic growth and improved health and education outcomes in the regions where we operate. We provide direct employment for over 3,700 people and indirect employment for many more.

Our Vision is to be a company people trust, want to work and partner with, supply and invest in, to create value. This Vision is brought to life by our Values – Care, Respect, Integrity, Performance and Teamwork – which put our people, host communities, the environment and our stakeholders at the forefront of our decision-making.

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Job Description

OceanaGold is seeking a suitable qualified and motivated Superintendent - Maintenance (Engineering) to provide leadership and strategic direction to the engineering team in the Asset Maintenance Department (AMD) at Didipio, Kasibu, Philippines. This position involves overseeing engineering systems, ensuring the efficient application of engineering principles, and continuous improvement of processing plant and underground mining processes.

Reporting to the Asset Maintenance Manager, the position is responsible for ensuring that all AMD Engineering personnel work safely, responsibly, and efficiently to maintain all equipment operational above the targeted availability.

This includes maintaining a Zero-Injury workplace environment, implementation and supervision of systems, and settings team objectives that are aligned with Oceanagold's Values and Vision.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Manages and monitors professional development of the Engineering team members resulting in successful delivery of targets, management of stakeholder's expectations and safe executions of all activities.
• Leads the yearly planning of Opex and Capex Budgets and with the monthly monitoring and review of actual cost expenses.
• Formulates, reviews, and implements systems within budget ensuring timely and quality completion of Maintenance Engineering services that are aligned with OceanaGold's Values and Vision.
• Implement engineering best practices, through improvements projects that will directly improve the equipment performance and reduce operating costs.
• Enhances current engineering design and conducts thorough analysis considering multiple areas of application and viability
• Compares the pros and cons of alternative design options and develops an optimized design alternative based on risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty analysis
• Gathers and analyzes information to enable the cost-effective allocation of resources that are available for maintenance to provide the highest levels of safety and reliability of engineered systems and works.
• Calculates the probability or frequency of occurrence and resulting impact of risk in the design of an engineered component, system, or process
• Manages contractor's performance by ensuring alignment with OGPI's Values and Safety Cultures.
• Thoroughly analyzes data collected and recommends actions plans to ensure timely, cost efficient, and high-quality output produced by contractors.
• Promptly communicates with contractors to resolve complex issues that hinder the completion of the project.
• Leads the team towards active involvement to the Safety Culture Behavior Program of OceanaGold.
• Promotes and initiates action to achieve goals beyond what is required and creates opportunities for new innovative ideas from team members conscious of both cost and safety.
  
  

Qualifications

• Behavior consistent with OceanaGold Values.
• Be able to secure a company sponsored work visa.
• Tertiary qualification in an Engineering (Mech /Elec), Project Management or related discipline, or equivalent experience in the workplace.
• Registered/Professional Electrical or Mechanical Engineer
• A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated experience in a similar role
• Prior experience leading a team in a diverse cultural environment in a mining context is desirable
• Extensive experience in underground and processing plant engineering, including managerial roles in mining operations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of processing plant and underground mining processes, engineering principles, and project management.
• High levels of enthusiasm for the work with high performance goals for self and team
• Commercial acumen relevant to the role and strong demonstrated abilities to lead and work effectively within culturally diverse workforce settings
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills
  
  

Additional Information

• Highly ethical mid-cap multinational miner
• Established and coveted underground operations with enviably low AISC
• FIFO 20 days on / 10 days off roster with travel in company time – Philippines
  
  

OGC VALUES: CARE | RESPECT | INTEGRITY | PERFORMANCE | TEAMWORK

OceanaGold is committed to providing equal employment opportunities.

If you share the same values and have what we are looking for, please apply online now via our careers website:

Applications close 15 March 2023. Shortlisting will commence immediately.