Heavy Equipment Operator

About the role

Solidus Resources is a U.S.-based gold development company backed by Waterton Mining. The company is focused on advancing the Spring Valley Gold Project in Pershing County, Nevada, and specializes in taking high potential gold assets through late-stage development and into production. Solidus applies a technically rigorous, capital-disciplined approach to mine development, with a strong emphasis on environmental stewardship, operational safety, and community engagement. The Spring Valley Gold Project is located in the prolific Humboldt Range, an area with approximately 60 million ounces of gold endowment within a 50-mile radius. Envisioned as a long-life, low-cost open-pit, heap-leach operation, Spring Valley has a robust resource base and considerable exploration upside along a 7-mile strike length across the Black Ridge fault zone. With a leadership team experienced in engineering, permitting, and large-scale project execution, Solidus Resources is advancing Spring Valley through feasibility, permitting, and construction, with a clear path toward operational readiness. The company’s goal is to responsibly unlock the value of U.S.-based gold assets while building a reputation for excellence in project delivery and sustainable development. This position is located on-site at our mine in Lovelock, NV. The Heavy Equipment Operator safely and efficiently operates heavy mobile equipment in an open-pit gold mining environment to support mining, material movement, stockpiling, and road maintenance activities. The role includes conducting pre-operational inspections, reporting hazards and equipment issues, performing basic troubleshooting, and working with supervisors, dispatch, maintenance, and other operators to achieve production targets while maintaining high standards of safety, environmental stewardship, and equipment care.

Responsibilities

• Safely operate heavy mining equipment including hydraulic shovels, D9-D11 dozers, front-end loaders (CAT 985, 988, 994, 995 or equivalent), graders (CAT 14, 16, 24 or equivalent), and other equipment as assigned.
• Perform production activities including loading, hauling support, stockpile management, road construction and maintenance, waste movement, and pit clean-up.
• Operate equipment in accordance with company policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), mine plans, and supervisor instructions.
• Conduct and document thorough pre-operational inspections and complete required equipment logbooks and operating reports.
• Continuously monitor equipment performance, gauges, warning systems, and operating conditions during each shift.
• Identify, report, and where appropriate, correct unsafe conditions, ground hazards, road deficiencies, or equipment defects.
• Maintain safe working distances and effective radio communication with dispatch, supervisors, and other equipment operators.
• Assist in building and maintaining haul roads, berms, dumps, stock