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Summary
Job Title: Operations Supervisor
Location: Wolverine Mine
Schedule / Terms of Employment: 12-hour shifts, (7 days on / 7 days off)
Primary Purpose
The Operations Supervisor’s primary purpose is to supervise, coordinate and schedule the activities of all mine operations personnel to optimize utilization of resources and achieve overall mine operations production objectives.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Devise effective crew mine plans that meet or exceed daily production targets levels in a safe and cost effective manner
- Optimize crew and operator placement to ensure all daily production targets are met
- Continuously monitor throughout the shift operations and adjust as conditions change
- Work with and assist the Efficiency Engineers and mine site trainers to achieve targeted objectives, continuously work to expand the cross-training of operators
- Identify and communicate operator deficiencies to the Superintendent with the goal to improve their role and effectiveness to meet the company’s goals
- Implement and monitor daily operator assignments adjusting as necessary to meet the company’s daily budget targets
- Monitor and report the daily attendance requirements including all absenteeism and record employee time and payroll information
- Accurately and timely record crew and production reports
- Monitor and continuously seek to improve employee morale
- Daily monitor coal quality pit practices to insure they adhere to company policy as outlined in the company’s coal quality program
- Manage the daily, weekly, and monthly coal quality audit records
- Manage daily coal production to maximize “in-pit” recoveries
- Manage that each coal pit achieves the desired coal quality while maximizing the direct ship and minimizing high ash (pit cleanings)
- Lead all investigations with a definite focus on root cause and prevention
Qualifications And Experience
- Valid BC Shift Boss Certificate
- A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in an open pit mining environment
Skills And Abilities
- Ability to take full responsibility with minimum supervision for safety, production and quality of load and haul operations.
- Ability to interpret mine plans and effectively communicate to load and haul work group.
- Mine equipment safety standards.
- Preparation of work schedules and performance reports.
- Understanding of short and long term planning objectives.
- Able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines
Wage And Benefits
Conuma Resources provides competitive wages and benefits. Benefits include paid vacation, 7% RRSP matching and extended health and dental care.
Pre-Employment Testing
Please be advised that all selected applicants will be required to complete pre-employment testing.
Work Location / Travel
Employee bus transportation is available from Tumbler Ridge (Brule Mine and Wolverine Mine), Chetwynd (Brule Mine and Willow Creek Mine), and Mackenzie (Willow Creek Mine).
Please be advised that Conuma Resources does not offer camp accommodations or Fly-In Fly-Out opportunities. Conuma believes in supporting our local communities by promoting them as a place for our employees to call home.
Company Information
Conuma is a leading Canadian producer and exporter of metallurgical coal for the global steel industry. Products from our three mine operations in Northeastern BC, Brule, Willow Creek and Wolverine, leave us well-positioned to serve customers in South America, Europe and Asia.
Five time winner of the Edward Prior Mine Safety Award for the lowest injury frequency rate in British Columbia, Conuma continues to lead the industry with multi-million-dollar investments in the latest collision avoidance and fatigue monitoring safety technologies for the protection of our employees. Safety is not a goal to be achieved, it is our standard of expectation.
Conuma is much more than metallurgical coal. Conuma and its employees are embedded in our communities. The company’s Pay It Forward program began in 2017 and since then has raised over $325,000 in support The Children’s Foundation. Locally, Conuma’s employee winter hockey matches ensure much-needed donations to the Food Bank, while in the summer, our employees get together to assist the local high school teams as they prepare their go-karts for the Conuma Challenge.
Our local communities in Northeastern British Columbia are amongst some of the most beautiful surroundings in North America. At the Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark, employees can enjoy almost limitless hiking amongst some of Canada’s biggest waterfalls, ride through ATV and snowmobile trails, explore 97 million-year-old dinosaur footprints, ski cross-country trails, play ice-hockey, swim indoors and out, cycle, and enjoy the sense of community only a small town provides. An hour and a quarter away, Chetwynd is famous for its chainsaw wood carvings and offers a range of kayaking, snowmobiling and rock-climbing opportunities. Regarded as a wonderful place to raise a family, with affordable costs of living, Northeast British Columbia is the outdoor paradise our employees are proud to call home.
Conuma Resources is an equal opportunity employer.
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