Regional Health & Safety Manager

Barrick Gold Corporation; Elko (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nevada Gold Mines, a Barrick Gold Corporation venture, is seeking an experienced Site Safety & Health Manager to lead HS&T strategy across a complex mining operation. You will partner with senior leadership to align safety program with enterprise goals, strengthen risk controls, and deliver measurable improvements in safety performance.

You will oversee the site HS&T management system, governance cadence, and reporting, build high-performing teams, and drive continuous improvement through

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or related field (or equivalent experience) required.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible HS&T experience in mining, refining, or another high-risk industrial environment, including senior-level leadership responsibility.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent designation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead HS&T strategy and execution; own the site HS&T management system and oversee safety, occupational health and training.
• Build and lead high-performing teams across safety, industrial hygiene, workers’ compensation, emergency response and training.
• Drive operational excellence with standardized training programs, SOPs, assurance protocols and data management processes.
• Strengthen risk management with fatal risk and critical control governance; monitor trends and elevate corrective actions.
• Partner with site and senior leadership to shape HS&T objectives and integrate safety priorities into business plans.
• Ensure compliance, assurance and reporting; maintain an annual risk-based assurance plan and track findings to closure.
• Advance continuous improvement by adopting new technologies and sharing lessons across operations.
• Plan for the future with annual and long-range HS&T strategies, budgets, and workforce plans.

Job description

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an exciting opportunity for you!

Nevada Gold Mines is seeking an experienced Site Safety & Health Manager to shape and advance a world-class safety culture across a complex mining operation. This role partners with senior leadership to align strategy with execution, strengthen risk management, and deliver measurable improvements in safety performance. The position provides site-wide leadership for Safety, Health & Training (HS&T), with authority to establish governance expectations, challenge operational practices, and elevate material risks or deteriorating control performance requiring leadership intervention.

This role is accountable for advancing a best-in-class Safety, Health & Training (HS&T) function by aligning site execution with enterprise strategy, strengthening operational discipline, and improving overall program effectiveness. The Manager owns the site HS&T management system, annual strategy, governance cadence, assurance framework, performance objectives, and reporting to site leadership, ensuring material risks have clear ownership, effective controls, and verified corrective actions.

At Nevada Gold Mines, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.

Responsibilities:

Lead HS&T Strategy & Execution: Own the site HS&T management system and oversee all aspects of safety, occupational health, and training. Translate enterprise strategy into annual operating plans, governance routines, measurable objectives, and practical field expectations, ensuring effective delivery, regulatory compliance, and alignment with corporate standards and strategic priorities.

Build and Lead High-Performing Teams: Provide direct leadership to safety, industrial hygiene, workers’ compensation, emergency response, and training functions. Establish clear accountabilities, workforce and succession plans, capability requirements, and performance expectations while fostering continuous improvement and effective allocation of people and resources.

Drive Operational Excellence: Implement and enhance site-wide systems, including standardized training programs, SOPs, assurance protocols, and data management processes. Define evidence, rating, action-management, and close-out requirements that improve consistency, scalability, and field performance.

Strengthen Risk Management: Lead site fatal risk and critical control governance by ensuring applicable risks, Critical Control Owners, performance standards, and verification expectations are clearly defined. Monitor safety trends, incidents, risk assessments, and control-verification results; elevate failed or degraded controls; and ensure corrective actions address systemic causes and reduce exposure.

Partner with Leadership: Collaborate with site and senior leadership, operational managers, risk owners, and cross-functional teams to shape HS&T objectives, influence decision-making, and integrate safety, health, training, critical risk, and workforce priorities into business plans and operating processes. Provide an objective view of performance and challenge practices that do not meet the intended control framework.

Ensure Compliance, Assurance & Reporting: Maintain compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements and establish a risk-based annual assurance plan informed by exposure, control performance, incidents, operational change, and previous findings. Oversee performance reporting, track findings through verified closure, elevate recurring weaknesses to senior leadership, represent the organization with external stakeholders, and serve as the key liaison with MSHA and state and federal agencies.

Advance Continuous Improvement: Champion innovation by integrating new technologies, industry practices, corporate initiatives, assurance findings, and operational learning to improve safety outcomes and program effectiveness. Share significant lessons across operating areas and verify that improvements are sustained in the field.

Plan for the Future: Develop and manage annual and long-range HS&T strategies, operating plans, goals, leading indicators, budgets, workforce plans, and capability priorities aligned with Barrick and Nevada Gold Mines’ safety system. Establish milestones and leadership review routines to monitor delivery, address barriers, and maintain accountability.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or related field (or equivalent experience)required

Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible HS&T experience in mining, refining, or another high-risk industrial environment, including senior-level leadership responsibility required

Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, governing, and improving large-scale safety, occupational health, training, fatal-risk, critical-control, and assurance programs required

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior and operational leaders without relying solely on direct authority, and translate risk and performance data into practical improvement actions required

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent designationpreferred

Technical Knowledge:

Fatal Risk Management, Critical Control Management, risk assessment, and major hazard management principles

Risk-based assurance, auditing, governance, action management, trend analysis, and escalation processes

Incident learning, occupational health, industrial hygiene, emergency response, training systems, and MSHA requirements

Performance reporting, data analysis, Visible Field Leadership, and practical application of controls in mining operations

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Endless opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues.
• Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.
• Nevada Gold Mines is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job Info

• Job Identification 242683
• Job Category Safety & Health
• Posting Date 10/08/2026, 04:18 PM
• Job Schedule Full time