Supervisor - Electrical

Sibanye Stillwater; Big Timber (MT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sibanye-Stillwater in McLeod, MT seeks a Supervisor - Electrical to lead electricians and contractors in safe, reliable electrical installation and maintenance across surface and underground mine systems. You will translate daily plans into shift work, ensure readiness and quality, and collaborate with the Planner and General Foreman.

The role emphasizes safety, training, and timely execution, with responsibilities ranging from on-shift coaching and inspections to coordinating outages and

Qualifications

• Five years of relevant industrial or mine electrical maintenance experience with leadership exposure.
• Experience with electrical systems, safety practices, and task training.
• Strong understanding of safety and compliance programs; ability to lead and train staff.

Responsibilities

• Reinforce safety and compliance with standards; stop unsafe work and take corrective action.
• Visit workplace each shift to review exams and equipment inspections.
• Verify training and site authorizations; coordinate with Safety and Planner.
• Provide coaching and feedback; support hiring and performance actions.
• Identify maintenance needs and report to Planner with accurate data.
• Review weekly schedules with Planner and communicate constraints.
• Create Daily Shift Plan assigning tasks, people, tools, priorities.
• Review work packets for scope, hazards, tests; return non-executable work.
• Direct electricians on electrical systems; ensure materials and tools are available.
• Coordinate outages and handoffs; verify quality and tests before release.
• Document work orders and follow up on defects or changes.
• Manage timesheets and payroll approvals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Troubleshooting

Electrical knowledge

Field supervision

Documentation

Education

High school diploma

Electrical degree (Assoc/Bachelor)

Job description

Supervisor - Electrical

East Boulder Mine - McLeod, MT

Schedule:

7x7 rotating

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

At Sibanye-Stillwater, the Supervisor - Electrical leads electricians and assigned contractors in safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective installation and maintenance of surface and underground electrical systems. Reporting to the General Foreman - Stationary & Electrical, the Supervisor turns approved schedules and work packets from the Planner - Stationary & Electrical into Daily Shift Plans, directs execution, verifies readiness and quality, and provides completion and condition feedback. The Planner owns planning and scheduling, and the General Foreman owns priorities, approvals, and significant constraint resolution. The Supervisor coordinates with Operations and Stationary Maintenance while respecting discipline ownership and engineering authority.

The Supervisor's primary duties are:

• Reinforce safe behaviors and compliance with Group Minimum Standards and ensure work is performed safely, adhering to standard operating procedures and approved working methods and stopping unsafe work immediately, mandating corrective action, holding employees accountable, and escalating appropriately.
• Visit employees in their workplace each shift to review workplace exams and equipment inspections, providing signature for verification of safe conditions.
• Verify electricians and assigned contractors possess required task training, electrical competencies, and site authorizations. Coordinate qualification gaps and training with Safety and the General Foreman, and ensure appropriate oversight of apprentices and developing electricians.
• Provide real-time coaching and feedback, recommending hiring or performance actions as needed.
• Identify emerging maintenance needs and provide the Planner with accurate equipment condition, priority, access, safety, and scope information. Participate in field walkdowns or scope validation when requested.
• Review proposed weekly schedules with the Planner and communicate crew capacity, skill availability, equipment access, operational constraints, and other conditions affecting execution before commitments are finalized.
• Construct and communicate the Daily Shift Plan from approved scheduled work and available work packets, assigning tasks, personnel, tools, equipment, and priorities to the crew.
• Review electrical work packets for executable scope, hazards, isolations, switching requirements, permits, materials, current drawings, test equipment, acceptance criteria, and qualified personnel. Return incomplete work or work that cannot be executed to the Planner before assignment.
• Direct electricians installing, inspecting, troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing assigned substations, transformers, switchgear, distribution systems, cables, grounding, motor control centers, motors, drives, protection systems, controls, instrumentation, lighting, and communications. Confirm planned materials, calibrated test equipment, tools, and job kits are available.
• Coordinate outages, shared isolations, equipment access, interfaces between electrical and mechanical work, commissioning, and return to service with Operations, Stationary Maintenance, and the Planner. Keep switching, testing, and energization with qualified and authorized personnel. Verify work quality, required tests, functional checks, and acceptance before release.
• Ensure completed work orders accurately document work performed, labor, materials, equipment condition, failure information, and variance reasons before closure or return to the Planner. Submit follow up requests for defects, deferred repairs, and additional scope with sufficient information for planning.
• Manage timesheets for the area of responsibility by reviewing, correcting, and approving hourly time without delays to payroll.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Sound judgment, critical thinking, and composure under pressure.
• Diagnostic and problem solving skills, including recognition of emerging issues.
• Leadership, coaching, conflict resolution, and teamwork skills.
• Understand, support, and maintain compliance programs.
• Ability to interpret electrical drawings, schematics, cable schedules, protection and test records, manuals, specifications, and work orders.
• General knowledge of applicable collective bargaining agreements.
• Knowledge of applicable MSHA regulations, particularly 30 CFR Part 57, Subpart K, site electrical authorizations, energy isolation, switching, grounding, shock and arc flash controls, applicable electrical codes, and electrical safe work practices adopted by the site.
• Industrial and mine electrical distribution, substations, transformers, switchgear, cables, grounding, protection, motors, drives, PLC-based controls, instrumentation, and communications. Electrical troubleshooting, testing, calibration, and commissioning. Interfaces with hoisting, conveying, ventilation, pumping, and other assigned mine infrastructure.
• Maintenance planning and scheduling principles, including the work order lifecycle, job plans, backlog management, resource readiness, preventive and predictive maintenance, schedule compliance, bills of material, and standard jobs.
• Solid understanding of reviewing planned work, documenting execution, initiating follow up work, maintaining accurate equipment history, and providing actual labor, material, failure, and condition information to the Planner.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent and five years of relevant industrial or mine electrical maintenance experience, including one to two years in a lead, trainer, or frontline leadership role, or an associate or bachelor's degree in electrical technology, electrical engineering, or a related field and two to four years of relevant electrical experience with demonstrated crew leadership capability.
• Experience using standard office software.
• Demonstrated practical competence in industrial electrical systems and electrical safe work practices, along with required task training, site electrical authorizations, supervisor training, and licenses or certifications where applicable to assigned work. Education does not replace required practical competence or authorization.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preference, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.