Technology Field Services Lead

Orla Mining is striving to be the emerging gold producer of choice with a geographically diversified asset base, a prospective development and exploration portfolio, an experienced management team with a successful track record, and a high-quality board and shareholder base. We are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of workplace diversity and recognize the benefits arising from employee diversity, respecting and valuing the perspectives, experiences, cultures, and essential differences that everyone possesses.

Orla operates the Camino Rojo Oxide Gold Mine, a gold and silver open-pit heap leach mine, located in Zacatecas State, Central Mexico. This low-cost operation is 100% owned by Orla, covers over 139,000 hectares, and includes a large sulphide mineral endowment located beneath the oxide resources. We are also advancing permitting on our South Railroad Project, a feasibility-stage, open-pit heap leach project located on the prolific Carlin trend in Nevada.

More recently, we’ve entered into an agreement with Newmont Corporation to acquire the Musselwhite Mine, located in Northern Ontario on Lake Opapimiskan. This project has great potential in a tier-one mining jurisdiction, and with more than 25 years of proven track record. This fly-in, fly-out operation will position Orla to double its annual gold production and provide us with excellent future opportunities. We expect this transaction to close in Q1 2025.

As part of our acquisition of the Musselwhite Mine, we are recruiting for a Field Services Lead within the Technology Department. This is an onsite role that will be responsible for the leaky feeder technology systems and support teams to ensure consistent radio communications and tracking throughout the surface and underground. Ensuring adequate communication standards, compliances, and system expansions as the mine expands. Researching and developing leaky feeder systems and communications for enhancements, redundancies, uptime and upgrades. Working closely with the electrical maintenance teams to ensure adequate communications and advancement throughout the mine. This role will report to the Site Technology Superintendent and will be key to the success of the Technology department.

Responsibilities include:

• Leads the field services team through the design, documentation, implementation, and support of OT network and leaky feeder and radio technologies (e.g. surface and underground wireless systems, servers, storage, voice and data network, virtual environment, backup/restore systems, wireless, fiber optics, two-way radio, air conditioning systems, active directory, etc.) to achieve the business objectives of the site.
• Ensures that all aspects of underground communications and network are supported and maintained to standards as applicable to the company and site.
• Serves as the senior technical subject matter expert and guides the support and maintenance to standards as applicable to the site.
• Collaborate with all teams to ensure all mining and communication and operational technology infrastructure is managed and maintained and provide reliable services at the site.
• Responsible for ensuring that the logical and physical infrastructure is designed and maintained to provide the best possible user experience, shortest possible incident resolution time, and maximum service uptime for the site.
• Ensures that third-party services are carrying out all aspects of a contractual obligation for proactive and preventative maintenance of the infrastructure based upon the required User Experience and Enterprise Business System availability.
• Responsible for the effective management of communication and operational technology issues, coordinates resolution and assists in driving issues to closure as well as escalates high severity issues and chronic problems to appropriate management and finally, provides timely follow-through with customers and peers on the infrastructure performance.
• Manage and oversee the design of the strategic integrated roadmap for core radio backbone and communications to achieve high availability and performance of the various business requirements supported.
• Assists in developing associated cost budgets and monitors and develops methods to meet the budgets as well as assists in the preparation and submission of requests for quotes and capital submissions for all equipment required for providing communication services.
• Leads the field services teams and collaborates to provide guidance and best practices.
• Adhere to Occupational Health and Safety policy and procedures.
• Consistently demonstrate and encourage safe work practices.
• Expose to different weather elements, working at heights and interact with Heavy/light equipment daily at the field.
• Support regulatory and corporate compliance initiatives as they pertain to information and content assets.
• Promote and comply with site and company goals and values.
• The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
  
  

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent in Computer Science/ Engineering, Electrical, Radio, Communications, Technologist, Mechanic or related field.
• Networking, radio communications, and server certifications an asset.
• Broad knowledge of all technology considerations (performance, scalability, maintainability, deployment, operations, technology infrastructure).
• 5+ years of radio communications and networking.
• Emerging technologies.
• Valid "G" driver’s license.
• 3 to 5 years work experience in technical roles including Technology Management.
• Prior mining or industrial experience is required.
• Customer relationship experience.
• Provide support for any Field Technology request, related to PBE tracking, radio communications and Leaky Feeder systems.
• Configure and activate additional services on two-way radio system, fleet system, Blast PED, Telemetry and GPS Augmentation.
• Facilitate and if required install and configure on board equipment requests.
• Certified Fiber Optic Training.
• Experience with VHF radio communications, Leaky Feeder systems, and mine tracking devices.
  
  

Working Conditions:

• The schedule is 14x14, working 12-hour days.