Superintendent, Operations & Maintenance Projects

Discovery-Silver-Corp; Timmins; On-site; CAD 122,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Dental coverage

Defined Contribution Pension Plan

Annual CAD$122k–$153k total comp

Job summary

Discovery Kidd in Timmins, Ontario, seeks a Superintendent, Operations & Maintenance Projects to lead planning and execution of operational, maintenance, infrastructure, and capital projects at Kidd Operations. Reporting to the Manager of Maintenance & Engineering, you will manage scopes, schedules, budgets, and contractor teams, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery.

The role requires a degree in engineering or technologist diploma, with 3 years in mining or project execution; CMMS

Qualifications

• A degree in engineering or a technologist/technician diploma is preferred.
• Three years of relevant mining, maintenance, operations, engineering, or project execution experience.
• Demonstrated experience planning/executing operational, maintenance, infrastructure, or capital projects.
• Strong understanding of project controls including scope, schedule, cost, forecasting, risk, and change management.
• Proven ability to lead teams, coordinate contractors, and work across departments.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety, health, environment, and community objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop project teams with clear expectations for safety and quality.
• Manage projects from scope through engineering, execution, commissioning, and handover.
• Develop practical project plans with operations, maintenance, engineering and procurement.
• Maintain scopes, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk registers.
• Monitor progress and implement recovery plans as needed.
• Manage changes through management-of-change processes.
• Coordinate work with production to minimize disruption.
• Provide regular progress updates and forecast costs.
• Resolve technical and execution challenges and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

Project leadership

Contractor coordination

Team development

Project controls

Scheduling

Communication

Problem solving

MS Office

CMMS

Education

Engineering degree

Technologist/technician diploma

Tools

CMMS

Scheduling tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Superintendent, Operations & Maintenance Projects

Join Our Growing Team!

Discovery Kidd has an exciting opportunity for a Superintendent, Operations & Maintenance Projects.

A growing North America Precious Metals Company, Discovery is committed to combining high-quality gold producing assets in Canada with the world’s largest undeveloped silver deposit in Mexico.

Discovery has an experienced team, dedicated to being a highly profitable producer of gold and silver that generates superior returns, delivers substantial social-economic benefits and meets the highest environmental standards.

The Position:

Reporting to the Manager of Maintenance & Engineering, the Superintendent, Operations & Maintenance Projects is responsible for planning and executing operational, maintenance, infrastructure, and capital projects at Kidd Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote the Internal Responsibility System and ensure employees and contractors meet Kidd Operations’ health, safety, environment, and community objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop the project and technical teams while establishing clear expectations for safety, productivity, work quality, conduct, and internal customer service.
• Manage operational and maintenance projects from scope development through engineering, execution, commissioning, and handover.
• Work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Procurement, and contractors to develop practical project plans that support safe and reliable production.
• Establish/maintain project scopes, schedules, budgets, resource plan, risk register, execution strategies.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and budgets, identify variances, and implement recovery plans when required.
• Ensure changes to project scope, schedule, or cost are documented, reviewed, and approved through the management-of-change process.
• Coordinate project work with production and maintenance schedules to minimize operational disruption and use resources effectively.
• Provide regular project updates, including progress, forecast costs, schedule status, risks, constraints.
• Identify and resolve technical, operational, and execution challenges that could affect project delivery.
• Support equipment reliability and operational improvement through root-cause analysis, failure reviews, and modifications to equipment or maintenance strategies.
• Manage contractors and ensure their work meets Kidd Operations’ safety, quality, schedule, and cost expectations.

Skills and Qualifications:

• A degree in engineering or a technologist/technician diploma is preferred.
• Extensive maintenance and/or operational experience in place of formal education will also be considered.
• Three years of relevant experience in mining, maintenance, operations, engineering, or project execution.
• Demonstrated experience planning/executing operational, maintenance, infrastructure, or capital projects.
• Strong understanding of project controls, including scope, schedule, cost management, forecasting, risk management, and management of change.
• Proven ability to lead teams, coordinate contractors, and work effectively across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Procurement, and other supporting departments.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with CMMS, project scheduling tools, and Microsoft Office applications.

Compensation and Benefits:

Competitive total compensation package including:

• Health, Dental, Life, AD&D, Disability, Healthcare and Wellness Spending Accounts, Virtual Care and Employee and Family Assistance Program;
• Company contributions and matching into a Defined Contribution Pension Plan; and
• Annual compensation of CAD$122,000 to CAD$153,000

Additional Information:

This posting is for an existing vacancy at Discovery’s Kidd Operations.

Discovery welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including, but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities (racialized), aboriginal (Indigenous) persons and persons of any gender identity and sexual orientation. Discovery is committed to a positive, supportive, and inclusive environment.