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Superintendent of Underground Development & Construction

South32
Patagonia, AZ Full Time
POSTED ON 2/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2025

Discover a Brighter Future

At South32, we're meeting the challenge of enabling a sustainable future through our focus on responsibly producing commodities critical for a low-carbon world.

As a collaborative, caring and inclusive company, there's no better place to make a genuine difference. Together we're making a positive, global impact that has the potential to change lives.

Whatever career path you choose, we'll support you every step of the way to learn, grow and succeed. So join us, step towards a brighter future and leave your legacy.

ABOUT Hermosa

Hermosa, located approximately 75 miles south-east of Tucson, Arizona, is the only advanced mining project in the United States as of 2023 that could produce two federally designated critical minerals-manganese and zinc-as well as silver and lead. The project has the potential to help power the nation's clean energy future, strengthen the domestic supply chain of critical minerals, grow the local economy, and improve lives in Santa Cruz County and the surrounding community for generations to come.

WHAT SOUTH32 OFFERS

  • Annual short-term incentive bonus that recognizes both your individual performance and the overall success of the business.
  • When you choose to contribute more into your retirement savings, South32 will match it up to a certain percentage.
  • South32 provides you with 4 weeks paid time off.
  • 12 weeks full-paid parental leave for primary careers and 2 weeks full-paid parental leave for secondary careers

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is essential to the overall success of the organization by planning, managing, and monitoring engineering design development, detail design, packaging engineering deliverables and scopes of work to facilitate tender of work packages, and schedule performance. The Superintendent of Underground Development and Construction will work closely with selected contractors to oversee Shaft construction including design review, sinking operation installation of support infrastructure and commissioning.

This role is a Permanent position based at the Hermosa Project site, near Patagonia, Arizona.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren't limited to :

  • Create, maintain, and execute project plan and schedule ensuring compliance with budget and proactively communicating identified issues and concerns
  • Supervise and support all construction and sinking activities
  • Confirm quality and accuracy of entire project
  • Contribute to safe construction and field coordination of all shaft area facilities
  • Assist the Shaft Manager and Underground Development Manager to resolve technical issues or conflicts
  • Ensure project materials and workmanship meets the project quality standards and design requirements
  • Assist with the coordination of the overall construction effort to ensure bottlenecks are expeditiously resolved
  • Monitor field installation work and changes to ensure conformity with governing regulations and project environmental and community commitments
  • Ensure where required that shaft construction methodology is applied in conformity with South32 and Hermosa business and technology objectives
  • Assist with the implementation of project document control processes
  • Advise Package Manager of Shafts of potential problems, work interferences or schedule difficulties while assisting in circumventing / resolving such conflicts; anticipates and resolves project issues and schedule difficulties
  • Monitor and report on Safety Performance for all work packages
  • Engage with HSS and the Environmental Department to address any undesirable trends and provide visible leadership in all aspects of safety and environmental performance
  • Monitor contractor quality control activities and arrange appropriate quality assurance surveillance and testing for ongoing and completed work
  • Engage appropriately qualified consultants to undertake various tests and quality assurance checks to verify the quality of manufactured equipment and products
  • Effective communication skills to build relationships with external and internal stakeholders
  • Provide guidance to the Construction and UG Development teams on the technical aspects and requirements of field installation work
  • Communicate and collaborate with other managers, suppliers, and contractors
  • Prepare and deliver daily and weekly reports and presentations in conformity with the internal package management processes
  • Ensure that the relevant corporate risk management processes are implemented and monitored during execution of Engineering and Construction work, and ensure that the relevant risk register(s) and accompanying mitigations are updated
  • Supervise, direct, coach and train shaft leads
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Package Manager of Shafts
  • ABOUT YOU

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mining, Engineering or other equivalent qualifications and experiences
  • 10 years of underground mining project development experience coordinating design and field installation
  • Relationship building skills : demonstrated empathy, emotional intelligence and cross-cultural effectiveness with the ability to achieve consensus and build alignment cooperatively
  • Maintain high standards of professional and ethical conduct
  • Analytical, and capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems
  • Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team
  • Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and the engineering and construction teams on track
  • Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
  • Experience in scheduling, monitoring and forecasting resources for optimum efficiency
  • Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience
  • Strong English language written and oral communication skills
  • Drive company vehicle and be covered under company insurance
  • Demonstrated ability of above requirements
  • South32 is committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the communities in which we operate. We provide a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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