Mine Maintenance Foreperson

Workplace Type: Onsite

Founded in 1921 Newmont Mining Corporation is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world. Newmont prides itself on safety and embraces diversity, engages employees, fosters innovation, rewards high performance and develops great leaders.

About this role

Newmont is seeking an experienced Mine Maintenance Foreperson to direct all maintenance personnel and be responsible for safety, quality control of work, and machine health.

Your role will consist of

Here is a snapshot of what your day-to-day will look like:

Create and maintain a strong safety culture. Facilitate technician involvement in safety programs.

Promote and consistently enforce company and MSHA safety regulations and requirements.

Directly supervise heavy equipment maintenance personnel.

Ensure that tasks assigned to the crew are conducted safely, efficiently, and meet quality specifications.

Coordinate equipment needs and priorities with Production Supervisors, maintenance planning and scheduling personnel, other maintenance supervisors, and superintendents.

Plan and resource urgent work as well as complete scheduled tasks.

Maintain detailed and accurate shift records.

Identify individual crew member’s training needs and coordinate training with maintenance trainer and senior technical advisor/trainer.

Focus on design for reliability with the intent to release an asset to our customers in acceptable condition including but not limited to hose orientation, clamps, harnesses, and clips, etc. in place to avoid failure.

Assist and advise relief supervisors with inspection and repair quality with the intent to meet and exceed MTTFF goal.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Your Training, Skills & Experience

Your training, skills, and experience checklist

Here is what we need to see from you!

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in mine maintenance.

A strong safety background is required.

Previous supervisory experience is desirable.

Experience in surface mining equipment is desirable.

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to learn basic techniques of the safe handling and proper application of drilling fluids additives.

Written and verbal communication skills required.

Basic computer skill required.

Knowledge of SAP preferred.

Working Conditions & Location

Position based in United States at the Cripple Creek & Victor Mine, located in Teller County Colorado.

Must be able to work at high altitude.

Must be willing to work a 12-hour rotating schedule.

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

For more information on Newmont:

Newmont website:

Lifecycle of a Mine microsite (educational site that explains what happens during each phase of a mine's life):

Newmont's blog site (weekly stories highlighting work being done in Newmont's regions and our employees):

Newmont's annual sustainability report:

Newmont seeks to recruit, hire, place and promote qualified applicants, meaning applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the position, without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

NOTE: Newmont does not ask for or require job applicants to pay money to apply or be considered for employment with the Company. In addition, Newmont does not ask potential job candidates to provide sensitive personal data without first submitting a job application through our secure, online portal, and only as requested for legitimate business purposes. If you are asked to provide money or sensitive personal data through any other means, do not respond and please report this immediately to .