Process Superintendent
Orla Mining Ltd · Elko, NV · 2 wk ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Ensure safe work practices, risk management, and compliance with all company and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain a highly engaged, accountable, and safety-focused operations and maintenance team.
- Ensure effective workforce training, shift management, training, and succession planning.
- Ensure process facilities operate safely and efficiently to meet production, recovery, and throughput targets.
- Direct daily operations and maintenance of crushing and conveying, heap leach, ADR, water treatment, and power generation facilities.
- Maintain process operating procedures, work instructions, and operational controls, and ensure they are maintained and continuously improved.
- Develop, monitor, and manage the Process Operations and Maintenance operating budgets and forecasts ensuring cost performance aligns with production targets.
- Monitor operational and mechanical performance and implement corrective actions to address variance.
- Support commissioning and operational readiness activities during project development and ramp-up.
- Lead the integration and execution of operational and maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability and reliability.
- Develop and maintain reliability strategies that maximize asset availability, equipment life, and maintenance effectiveness.
- Maintain operational readiness for inspections, audits, and permit obligations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in process engineering, mechanical engineering or similar field preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years of a combination of process operations and maintenance supervision required.
- Experience in comminution, heap leach operations, cyanide-based recovery systems, gold and silver recovery circuits and mine-to-mill integration required.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license.