Maintenance and Contractor Trainer

Kinross Gold Corporation; Fort Knox (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinross Gold Corporation's Fort Knox site seeks a Maintenance and Contractor Trainer to develop and deliver practical training ensuring safe, compliant maintenance for staff and contractors.

This role coordinates site orientation, maintains competency records, and collaborates with OPS and reliability teams to improve workforce capability and equipment reliability.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 5+ years in industrial maintenance or similar high-risk environment.
• Experience training, coaching, or assessing employees or contractors.
• Strong knowledge of safety practices, hazard identification, energy isolation, permits, and risk controls.
• Ability to read and explain procedures, manuals, drawings, and manufacturer information.
• Proficiency with standard office software and electronic training/recordkeeping systems.
• Valid driver’s license and site access requirements.
• Train-the-trainer or instructional-design certification.
• Experience supporting fixed-plant, mobile-equipment, electrical, instrumentation, or reliability programs.
• Familiarity with learning management systems, CMMS, and contractor management processes.
• Experience in regulated mining or similar industries.
• MSHA Blue Card or willingness to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain training plans aligned with site procedures, regulatory requirements, risk controls, and business priorities.
• Deliver classroom, field, hands-on, and refresher training for maintenance employees and contractors.
• Conduct training needs analyses with supervisors, planners, reliability personnel, safety professionals, and contractor representatives.
• Coordinate site orientation and onboarding for contractors before work begins.
• Attend and organize weekly contractor safety meetings.
• Coach employees and contractors on safe work practices, maintenance standards, tools, equipment, and procedures.
• Maintain accurate training, certification, authorization, and competency records in LMS or document management systems.
• Monitor qualification expirations and coordinate required initial, refresher, and remedial training.
• Measure training effectiveness using assessment results, field observations, compliance trends, rework, equipment performance, and stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure training materials reflect current procedures, manufacturer guidance, legal requirements, and site standards.
• Promote a culture of safe execution, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Work with the OPS trainer on Working at Heights program: scheduling and ensuring needed training is current.
• Assist with rolling out Redlist to Maintenance Crews and coordinating trainings.

Skills

Industrial maintenance

Training experience

Safety practices

Procedures & manuals

Office software

Driver’s license

Train-the-trainer

Field training

CMMS/LMS familiarity

Mining industry

MSHA Blue Card

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Learning Management Systems

CMMS / E-learning systems

Job description

The Maintenance and Contractor Trainer develops, coordinates, and delivers practical training programs that ensure maintenance employees and contractors perform work safely, consistently, and in accordance with site standards. The role provides site-specific training for all contractors, conducts daily field checkups of contractors working on site, verifies that each contractor has completed the training required for site access and assigned work, and completes all required permits for the day. The position also ensures that new or modified equipment, processes, and work practices have approved standard operating procedures (SOPs) and management of change (MOC) documentation in place before handover to Operations. In addition, the role works closely with the Electrical and Maintenance Supervisors to identify and schedule required training for their respective crews, maintain accurate competency records, and support continuous improvement in workforce capability, safe work execution, and equipment reliability.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain maintenance and contractor training plans aligned with site procedures, regulatory requirements, risk controls, and business priorities.
• Deliver classroom, field, hands-on, and refresher training for maintenance employees and contractors.
• Conduct training needs analyses in partnership with supervisors, planners, reliability personnel, safety professionals, and contractor representatives.
• Coordinate site orientation and role-specific onboarding for contractors before work begins.
• Attend and organize weekly contractor safety meetings.
• Coach employees and contractors on safe work practices, maintenance standards, tools, equipment, and procedures.
• Maintain accurate training, certification, authorization, and competency records in the applicable learning or document management systems.
• Monitor qualification expirations and coordinate required initial, refresher, and remedial training.
• Measure training effectiveness using assessment results, field observations, compliance trends, rework, equipment performance, and stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure training materials reflect current procedures, manufacturer guidance, legal requirements, and site standards.
• Promote a culture of safe execution, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Work with the OPS trainer with the Working at Heights program. This would include scheduling training and ensuring that all needed individuals have the needed training and are current with their training.
• Help with the roll out of Redlist to the Maintenance Crews and working directly with the OPS Trainer to provide the needed trainings for the program.

Qualifications and Skill Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five or more years of industrial maintenance, skilled trades, heavy equipment, processing, mining, manufacturing, or a comparable work environment.
• Demonstrated experience training, coaching, mentoring, or assessing employees or contractors.
• Strong working knowledge of maintenance safety practices, hazard identification, energy isolation, permits, and task-level risk controls.
• Ability to read and explain procedures, technical manuals, drawings, and manufacturer information.
• Proficiency with standard office software and electronic training or recordkeeping systems.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to satisfy site access requirements.
• Train-the-trainer, adult education, instructional design, or competency-assessor certification.
• Experience supporting fixed-plant, mobile-equipment, electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, or reliability programs.
• Familiarity with learning management systems, computerized maintenance management systems, and contractor management processes.
• Experience in a regulated, union, mining, construction, or other high-risk industrial environment.
• Currently having or willingness to get a MSHA Blue Card

Reporting Relationships

• Typically reports into Mine / Mill / Maintenance Superintendent