Mine Technical Service Superintendent

3 hours ago


Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada Burgundy Diamond Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Mine Technical Service Superintendent to join our team at Burgundy Diamond Mines. As a key member of our operations team, you will play a critical role in developing and communicating risk-assessed short and medium-term mine and production plans that maximize the utilization and effectiveness of the Production Department and the mineral resource.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure that mine design, ventilation, and maintenance of mine plans, and Ground Stability Design, Water and Drainage activities and related Reportable Incident reporting are conducted in accordance with the NWT Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
  • Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Ekati's mining engineering and geological sciences processes, procedures, and tools.
  • Ensure that Material Risk Management Plans, Standards, Procedures, Work instructions, and JHAs for Irrespirable Atmosphere, Mud Inrush, and Fall of Ground are routinely applied and regularly reviewed and updated in order to ensure adequate control of these risks.
  • Provide detailed, safe, and practical weekly mine activity schedules for the underground and open pit operations to support execution of the 12 Week Integrated Mine Plan.
  • Provide optimized, risk-assessed, and achievable 12 Week Integrated Mine Plans and Schedules that incorporate all resources required to deliver carats from Ekati.
  • Design excavations for dewatering infrastructure in accordance with capacity and location advice provided by the Geosciences group.
  • Conduct scenario analysis and risk review to determine optimized production plans for the 24-month schedule.
  • Complete mine planning tasks, including development of Budget physicals for the yearly Budget cycle.
  • Complete stope design, provide drill & blast designs, and deliver operational instructions to support drill & blast activities at Ekati.
  • Provide day-to-day geotechnical management of the operation through monitoring and regular inspections of the mine operations.
  • Provide day-to-day ventilation management of the underground operation, including ventilation design, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Provide cave engineering services, including cave design, flow modeling, reserve depletion, and provision of detailed draw rules and cave commandments to support daily cave management.
  • Manage the Ekati Mine Planning capital and operating budgets.
  • Complete all Reserve reporting as required by National Instrument and National Instrument.
  • Complete corporate reporting as required (e.g., Diamond Cycle reporting).
  • Provide operational mining engineering support to the Resource Planning and Development Department and the Projects Department.
  • Complete exploration drilling, geological modeling, and geotechnical characterization for Ekati.
  • Conduct hydrology investigations, determine capacity requirements for dewatering systems, and provide operational instructions to manage water ingress and inrush risk to the mine operations.
Requirements
  • A tertiary qualification in Engineering (mining, geological)
  • Designation as a Professional Engineer in the Northwest Territories or the ability to obtain this designation.
  • NWT WCB Supervisor Two certification or the ability to obtain this.
What We Offer

We believe people are our most important asset. This is why we are fully committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our employees. We believe in establishing strong, lasting, and respectful relationships with the people and communities with whom we work.

We are dedicated to developing our workforce and to creating an environment where people can learn, grow, and take on new responsibilities. We build capacity within our workforce by offering leadership training, apprenticeship positions, and adult education initiatives.

We offer a competitive salary, performance bonus, and total compensation package, including company-paid extended health, dental, and vision care, an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP), employer-matched pension, generous paid vacation and personal days, as well as a Dependent Scholarship Program and employee discounts. On-site, we provide accommodations and meals, a fully equipped gym, and recreation facilities.



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