Senior Mine Engineer - Long Range (Hybrid)

Kinross Gold Corporation; Elko (NV); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Kinross Gold Corporation in Nevada seeks a Senior Mine Engineer (Long Range) to develop and optimize Life of Mine plans for open-pit operations in Elko. The role ensures long-term plans are safe, compliant, and economically optimized, with collaboration across technical services and site management.

Qualified candidates may receive a sign-on bonus and relocation assistance. The position is hybrid, requiring strong open pit design, pit optimization, and economic analysis skills, plus experience

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in mining or related discipline.
• 5+ years experience in surface mining preferred.
• Knowledge of open pit mining engineering principles.
• Experience with mining software: MineSight, Deswik, Vulcan, Studio NPVS.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Authorized to work in the United States full-time; must have a valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Run pit optimizations and supporting mineral inventory reporting.
• Create open pits, waste dumps, haul roads, and drainage models.
• Integrate short- and long-range plans with NPV-focused analysis.
• Analyze production vs. plan and update mine designs for optimization.
• Collaborate with environmental, geology, and leadership teams.

Skills

Mine design concepts

Open pit mining

MS Office

Technical writing

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

B.S. in Mining or related discipline

Tools

MineSight

Deswik

Vulcan

Studio NPVS

Job description

Senior Mine Engineer - Long Range (Hybrid)

Posting Date: 3/26/26

Location: Elko, NV, USA

Job Summary

The Senior Mine Engineer (Long Range) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the Life of Mine (LOM) plans and designs for Kinross Nevada open-pit operations. This role ensures long-term strategic plans are economically optimized, safe, and compliant with geotechnical and environmental standards. They work closely with technical services, geology, and site management to maximize shareholder value and operational performance. Qualified candidates may be eligible for both a sign-on bonus and relocation assistance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Mine Planning: Run pit optimizations and support mineral inventory reporting requirements, optimize mine plans, fleet sizing studies, create stack plans, and technical studies focused on asset optimization.
• Design And Modelling: Create open pits, waste rock dumps, haul roads and stormwater drainages. Able to check block models using drill data, run statistics and create scripts preferred.
• Scheduling and Economic Analysis: Integrates short-term plans into long-term, and life-of-mine plans. Perform excel level economic analysis. Support feasibility studies (NI 43-101) as required.
• Reconciliation and Compliance: Analyzes and interprets mine plans to ensure alignment with financial, environmental and operational objectives. Perform reconciliation of actuals vs. planned production, updating plans to reflect reality while maximizing NPV.
• Collaboration: Work with short range planners, environmental, exploration, metallurgy, geotech, maintenance, and leadership teams to ensure long term plans are technically sound.
• Innovation: Researches information to support decision-making and improve processes, technologies or methodologies.
• Safety and Mentorship: Contributes to safety culture, and the development of policies and practices. Must be willing to take on cross-rotation assignments within the Technical Services Group for personal development.

Qualifications and Skill Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Mining or related discipline.
• 5 Years of experience in surface mining preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles and concepts of open pit mining engineering.
• General understanding of mining operations, as well as limited understanding of milling and maintenance operations.
• Working knowledge of computer-aided mine design and familiarity with one or more commercial software packages (MineSight, Deswik, Vulcan, Studio NPVS etc.)
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) including presenting to senior leadership.
• Technical writing abilities preferred.
• Ability to learn quickly and to function within the physical demand requirements.
• Understanding of Kinross’ processes and corporate values is an asset.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of the Engineering Team.
• Must be 18 years old and presently authorized to work in the United States on a full time basis.
• Requires valid driver’s license.

Health, Safety, and Environmental Requirements

• Adheres to all MSHA regulations and Kinross safety and environmental standards.
• Have a strong commitment to safe working practices.
• Wears Personal Protective Equipment at all times while in the production environment.
• Is alert and observes, corrects, and reports unsafe conditions.
• Follows operating procedures and complies with all regulatory requirements.

Kinross Competencies

• Strategic Effectiveness Developing and communicating rigorous and creative business strategies that drive sustainable value.
• External Engagement Understanding and building relationships with external parties that strengthen and sustain competitive advantage.
• Business Focus Applying commercial rigor and discipline to all business decisions and customer relationships.
• Living the Kinross Values Aligning behavior, decisions, and actions with Kinross values and principles.

Legislative Requirements

Background Check required US work permit required