What are the responsibilities and job description for the ETN Operations Manager position at Nyrstar East Tennessee Mines?
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Safety, Health and Environment:
- Ensure compliance with statutory / legislative and corporate requirements
- Integrate SHE initiatives into departmental planning, decision making, systems and processes
- Promote awareness and establish appropriate departmental targets to prevent harm
- Ensure all hazards and sources of loss are identified, evaluated, and controlled in accordance with Nyrstar SHE Policies and the Safety Management Standards
- Be accountable for safety, health and environment activities within your department
- Ensure fitness for work compliance throughout workforce
- Conduct business of Nyrstar in exemplary manner in terms of ethical, commercial, legislative and community expectations and requirements.
- Promote the Nyrstar sustainable strategy for our community
- Develop a high level of safety and environmental awareness amongst your team
People and Organization:
- Manage human resources strategically within your department to result in Nyrstar having preferred employer status and being a high achieving organizational environment
- Ensure departmental practices support effective employee relations
- Ensure employees are trained and held accountable for roles
- Align departmental and employee objectives to the Business Plan and Nyrstar Values and Behaviors
- Promote and manage effective leadership, performance management, career development and succession planning of team personnel
- Consistently apply workplace management procedures to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, agreed values and behaviors and Nyrstar Code of Conduct
- Appropriately prioritizing activity to continuously achieve targets
- Establish processes/systems to align with the Business Plan and assist in exceeding expectations
Operations and Reliability:
- Lead Mine Operations positive growth and improvement of all work activities and performance standards
- Manage Mine Operations personnel to ensure adherence to approved procedures and to contribute to quality improvement within the operation
- Manage mine production and development in accordance with short- and long-term schedules and optimize cost effective recovery from the ore reserve.
- Ensure mine infrastructure and mobile equipment is maintained to a standard that allows planned targets to be met and does not compromise the long-term integrity of assets.
- Coordinate Mine Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological input through the Mine Technical Services Department or consultants as required for achieving plan targets.
- Coordinate the East Tennessee Mining Department operating budget.
- Manage expenditure to within budget and reforecast as required to achieve the Annual Plan.
- Ensure all projects are effectively budgeted and monitored within time, quality and cost constraints.
- Understand cost drivers in the mining department and seek continuous improvement in unit cost performance.
- Achieve or surpass production objectives in accordance with budget and commercial requirements
- Ensure that systems and processes for the operations are established such that production targets are met and losses reduced.
- Utilize assets to manage a quality outcome and minimize costs.
- Achieve or exceed customer expectations by ensuring supply & specifications of product are met
- Ensure planning is reliable, robust and repeatable
- Promote and reward innovation to improve methods and processes of the mining business
- Influence best practice in planning activities before implementation
- BS in Mining Engineering or an associated field
- 15 years mining experience, preferably underground
- 10 years' experience in roles with increasing responsibility in either Mine Engineering / Mine Management
- Experience in working to budgets and capital cost expectations
- Desirable SAP Experience
COMPETENCIES:
- Demonstrated ability to contribute and work effectively in a group as a team leader
- Provides current, direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others in a prompt and efficient manner
- Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Sound methods and approaches to persuade, convince or influence others
- Ability to pass on skills and experience to others.
- Strategic in business planning
- Strong project management abilities
- Self-motivated, energetic and proactive
- Ability to create a climate in which people want to do their best by empowering individuals and teams and by communicating a clear vision and purpose
- Ability to research and develop new ideas
- High level of initiative, resourcefulness and personal organization
- Ability to direct employees to achieve set targets
- Proven relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills
- Goal driven leader who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes and coaches employees to meet high performance standards
