ETN Operations Manager (East Tennessee Mines)

• Ensure compliance with statutory / legislative and corporate requirements
• Integrate SHE initiatives into departmental planning, decision making, systems and processes
• Promote awareness and establish appropriate departmental targets to prevent harm
• Ensure all hazards and sources of loss are identified, evaluated, and controlled in accordance with Nyrstar SHE Policies and the Safety Management Standards
• Be accountable for safety, health and environment activities within your department
• Ensure fitness for work compliance throughout workforce
• Conduct business of Nyrstar in exemplary manner in terms of ethical, commercial, legislative and community expectations and requirements.
• Promote the Nyrstar sustainable strategy for our community
• Develop a high level of safety and environmental awareness amongst your team

• Manage human resources strategically within your department to result in Nyrstar having preferred employer status and being a high achieving organizational environment
• Ensure departmental practices support effective employee relations
• Ensure employees are trained and held accountable for roles
• Align departmental and employee objectives to the Business Plan and Nyrstar Values and Behaviors
• Promote and manage effective leadership, performance management, career development and succession planning of team personnel
• Consistently apply workplace management procedures to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, agreed values and behaviors and Nyrstar Code of Conduct
• Appropriately prioritizing activity to continuously achieve targets
• Establish processes/systems to align with the Business Plan and assist in exceeding expectations

• Lead Mine Operations positive growth and improvement of all work activities and performance standards
• Manage Mine Operations personnel to ensure adherence to approved procedures and to contribute to quality improvement within the operation

• Manage mine production and development in accordance with short- and long-term schedules and optimize cost effective recovery from the ore reserve.
• Ensure mine infrastructure and mobile equipment is maintained to a standard that allows planned targets to be met and does not compromise the long-term integrity of assets.
• Coordinate Mine Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological input through the Mine Technical Services Department or consultants as required for achieving plan targets.

• Coordinate the East Tennessee Mining Department operating budget.
• Manage expenditure to within budget and reforecast as required to achieve the Annual Plan.
• Ensure all projects are effectively budgeted and monitored within time, quality and cost constraints.
• Understand cost drivers in the mining department and seek continuous improvement in unit cost performance.   
• Achieve or surpass production objectives in accordance with budget and commercial requirements
• Ensure that systems and processes for the operations are established such that production targets are met and losses reduced.
• Utilize assets to manage a quality outcome and minimize costs.
• Achieve or exceed customer expectations by ensuring supply & specifications of product are met
• Ensure planning is reliable, robust and repeatable
• Promote and reward innovation to improve methods and processes of the mining business
• Influence best practice in planning activities before implementation

• BS in Mining Engineering or an associated field
• 15 years mining experience, preferably underground
• 10 years' experience in roles with increasing responsibility in either Mine Engineering / Mine Management
• Experience in working to budgets and capital cost expectations
• Desirable SAP Experience

• Demonstrated ability to contribute and work effectively in a group as a team leader
• Provides current, direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others in a prompt and efficient manner
• Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Sound methods and approaches to persuade, convince or influence others
• Ability to pass on skills and experience to others.
• Strategic in business planning
• Strong project management abilities
• Self-motivated, energetic and proactive
• Ability to create a climate in which people want to do their best by empowering individuals and teams and by communicating a clear vision and purpose
• Ability to research and develop new ideas
• High level of initiative, resourcefulness and personal organization
• Ability to direct employees to achieve set targets
• Proven relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills

• Goal driven leader who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes and coaches employees to meet high performance standards

This is a management position
This is a full time position