Open-Pit Mining Team Lead: Safety & Performance

Randstad Türkiye; Odunpazarı; On-site; TRY 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Türkiye seeks a senior Mining Engineer to lead open pit operations, ensuring legal and safety compliance and driving cost-effective mining practices. You will manage licenses, audits, and downstream coordination, while collaborating with geology and operations teams.

With 8–10 years in mining and fluent English/Turkish, you will oversee contractor management, data continuity, and team development in a dynamic mining environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering.
• 8–10 years of experience in mining operations, preferably open pit industrial minerals.
• Strong knowledge of mining licenses, royalties, and regulatory bodies and geotechnical risk and stability management.
• Knowledge of cost control audit environments.
• Knowledge of contractor and stakeholder management.
• Digital literacy (mine planning tools, SAP interfaces, reporting systems).
• Strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills.
• Fluent/Proficient in English and Turkish.

Responsibilities

• Ensure full compliance with legal and internal HSE rules, acting as site level owner for safe mining execution.
• Own implementation and follow up of mine stability audits, geotechnical action plans, and risk mitigation measures.
• Plan, execute, and control daily mining activities (open pit), ensuring delivery of raw material in line with plant demand and quality requirements as defined with Operations and Geology.
• Ensure alignment between mining output, downstream beneficiation capacity constraints, and downstream operations.
• Manage mining contractors and service providers, including cost, performance, and safety compliance.
• Act as primary interface to authorities for all mining related matters.
• Own mining licenses, permits, GSM, operating activity reports, royalty declarations, and statutory submissions.
• Own mining cost structure, unit cost drivers, and variance explanations together with Finance.
• Provide validated inputs for standard costing and SAP master data affecting mining.
• Ensure audit ready documentation.
• Own all mining related software, licenses, access rights, and data continuity.
• Lead and develop the mining team.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Communication skills

Digital literacy

Languages (English/Turkish)

Education

Bachelor's degree in mining engineering

Tools

Mine planning tools

SAP interfaces

Reporting systems

Job description

Randstad Türkiye seeks a senior Mining Engineer to lead open pit operations, ensuring legal and safety compliance and driving cost-effective mining practices. You will manage licenses, audits, and downstream coordination, while collaborating with geology and operations teams.

With 8–10 years in mining and fluent English/Turkish, you will oversee contractor management, data continuity, and team development in a dynamic mining environment.