Principal Mining Engineer

Evolution Mining; Red Lake; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gold producer, Evolution Mining seeks a Principal Mining Engineer for their Red Lake operations. This role will oversee key projects, enhance team success, and ensure adherence to safety and operational standards. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor of Mine Engineering, leadership skills, and experience in mining operations, contributing to a culture of safety and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Active P’Eng designation or ability to obtain.
• Experience in an underground hard rock environment and similar role.
• Technical knowledge around mine planning, scheduling, and irrigation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all projects critical for delivery of the 3-year plan.
• Mentor and coach engineering teams for successful outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with safety legislation and standards.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Mining planning

Operational safety adherence

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor of Mine Engineering

Tools

Deswik Suite

Pronto

Ventsim

Pumpsim

Microsoft Office Applications (MS Project, Excel)

Job description

About us

From humble beginnings in 2010, Evolution Mining is now a leading gold producer, operating six mines across Australia and Canada. Enacting our vision to be inspired people creating a premier global gold company, we are indeed a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers our employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company. So, whether you choose to work at one of our underground or open pit operations, explore for our future as part of our Discovery team, or join our Group Office, we know you’ll have a bright future with us.

About Red Lake

Evolution’s star is rising in Red Lake

At Red Lake, our people have many career and growth opportunities and a bright future. With three underground mines and two processing plants all within the one site, Red Lake is one of the highest-grade gold deposits in Canada. The operational diversity and complexity at Red Lake, along with outstanding exploration potential, opens the door to many career possibilities and highlights working with us.

Located in Northwestern Ontario, we encourage our people to live local in the stunning community of Red Lake, where you can enjoy the outdoor lifestyle and adventures the region is renowned for. It’s very special that our town and operations are all close by, so it really does feel like one big community.

About the role

The Principal Mining Engineer role offers the opportunity to be responsible for overseeing all projects and medium term design critical for delivery of the 3 year plan at Evolution Mining Red Lake Gold Operations. This role is a 5/2/4/3 schedule on 9 hour shifts. You will be required to live locally in Red Lake as this is a residential role with no camp or fly in fly out availability.

Key result areas in this role include:

• Ensure that technical support provided to operational teams considers requirements of applicable Work Health and Safety Legislation, Canadian Standards and Environmental Standards/Procedures and other site regulations.
• Actively contribute to a Zero Incident culture throughout the mine via Visible Felt Leadership to help promote safe working conditions and practices.
• Ensure the efficient use of in-house processes for identifying, reporting and managing hazards and incidents and proactively take steps to eliminate risk-taking behaviours or actions.
• Commit to maintaining health, safety and security standards and principles, both within own workplace and through the identification of potential risks throughout the Evolution Group.
• Mentor, coach and lead a team of engineers and technical staff to enhance their development and success through setting clear accountabilities and deliverables for direct reports and informal regular interaction, informal reviews and performance appraisals.
• Lead the underground operations water management project, supporting operational teams to coordinate their work and provide technical guidance on key infrastructure requirements
• Oversee major ventilation upgrades through providing technical oversight to the ventilation team and supporting the projects team through provision of plans and project schedules
• Support the delivery of new mining areas as per the three-year plan through design and documentation of all capital infrastructure including egress, refuge, power, water management infrastructure and capital development
• Actively participate in the development of mining schedules across the weekly through to three year time horizon
• Provide technical support for operational procedures and risk management processes
• Lead new technology and business improvement projects

About you

As the PrincipalMining Engineer, you will have a Bachelor of Mine Engineering with active P’Eng designation (or ability to obtain).

It is also important that you have/ can demonstrate:

• Demonstrated work experience in an underground hard rock environment with experience in a similar role
• Strong technical knowledge and mining background in planning, scheduling, ventilation, mine infrastructure and drill and blast
• Experience with mine water management
• Demonstrated high level of competence with mine planning software
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Strong leadership skills including the ability to support, coach and mentor staff
• Ability to implement and communicate plans to ensure plans and targets are met
• High level of self-discipline to deliver outcomes
• Leadership and project management competencies: to support site operations towards desired objectives, standards and outcomes
• Results orientated and maintaining direction: to ensure focus on important deliverables and drive achievement of functional as well as personal job objectives
• Good communication and presentation skills, able to effectively communicate complex ideas to non-engineering experts
• Able to build relationships across functions and operations
• High professional standards
• Good analytical skills and attentive to detail
• Organised, highly efficient and proactive
• Cultural sensitivity
• Competent user of Deswik Suite, Pronto, Ventsim and Pumpsim
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications (MS Project, excel)
• Provide an atmosphere of continuous improvement (costs and safety)
• Ability to supervise technical staff and contractor’s work
• Strong problem-solving capabilities for driving successful mine design and project, planning, scheduling, financial evaluations and cost analysis

Closing date: Open until Filled

We thank you for taking the time to submit your application. For more information, you can contact [e-mail] .

At Evolution, as our name suggests, change and transformation is in our DNA. We want the Evolution experience to be your career highlight. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce that represents the communities in which we operate. Candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We are focused on keeping our people safe and healthy and creating sustainable value in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Join our bold team to start your next exciting chapter.

As a condition of employment, successful applicants must complete satisfactory pre-employment requirements, including but not limited to Background Checks, Pre-Employment medical, Employment Verification, Education Verification and mandatory drug and alcohol testing.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Please inform your current supervisor if you are applying for this role once you have submitted your application.