Underground Maintenance Leader: Strategy & Reliability

Kinross Gold Corporation; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinross Gold Corporation operates the Round Mountain mine in Nevada and seeks an Underground Maintenance General Supervisor to lead the underground maintenance organization and develop strategies aligned with long-term objectives.

The role partners with Mine Operations, Planning, Reliability, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure asset performance, budgeting, and scalability for future growth, while building leadership capability across the team.

Qualifications

• Required: High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum five (5) years of progressive maintenance experience in underground hard-rock mining operations required.
• Minimum eight (8) years of maintenance leadership experience required.
• Minimum five (5) years leading maintenance supervisors, planners, reliability personnel, contractors, or equivalent maintenance management teams required.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing maintenance strategies for underground mobile mining fleets required.
• Demonstrated experience managing operating budgets, capital budgets, maintenance cost performance, contractor strategy, and long-range maintenance forecasts required.
• Proven experience with underground mobile maintenance systems, asset management programs, reliability initiatives, equipment lifecycle management, and maintenance planning processes required.
• Strong underground hard-rock mining maintenance experience required; surface-only mining experience will not be considered equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute long-range maintenance strategies aligned with Underground Operations business plans, site objectives, production forecasts, and asset management requirements.
• Establish fleet lifecycle, reliability, component replacement, rebuild, and condition-monitoring strategies that improve availability, control cost, and extend asset life.
• Develop, manage, and monitor annual operating budgets, capital requests, maintenance forecasts, contractor strategies, and financial performance against approved plans.
• Build and develop a high-performing underground maintenance organization through workforce planning, succession planning, leadership development, coaching, and technical training strategy.
• Provide leadership for underground startup, fleet integration, maintenance infrastructure, maintenance readiness, systems development, and scalability for future growth.
• Partner with Mine Operations and Technical Services to ensure maintenance strategy supports mine plans, production forecasts, equipment utilization expectations, and long-term underground growth.
• Develop workforce plans, succession plans, training priorities, and leadership development expectations to build long-term underground maintenance capability.
• Provide leadership for contractor strategy, OEM support requirements, parts/inventory plans, tooling readiness, and vendor performance management.
• Lead business reviews and performance discussions using maintenance, reliability, safety, and cost data to drive accountability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Leadership & coaching

Asset management

Reliability engineering

Maintenance planning

MSHA knowledge

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Associate degree in Heavy Equipment Technology

Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

Oracle eAM

Maximo

Maintenance management systems

Job description

Kinross Gold Corporation operates the Round Mountain mine in Nevada and seeks an Underground Maintenance General Supervisor to lead the underground maintenance organization and develop strategies aligned with long-term objectives.

The role partners with Mine Operations, Planning, Reliability, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure asset performance, budgeting, and scalability for future growth, while building leadership capability across the team.