Tailings Management Coordinator

Tailings Management Coordinator

Musselwhite Mine

Orla Mining is striving to be the emerging gold producer of choice with a geographically diversified asset base, a prospective development and exploration portfolio, an experienced management team with a successful track record, and a high-quality board and shareholder base.

Orla operates the Camino Rojo Oxide Gold Mine, a gold and silver open-pit heap leach mine, located in Zacatecas State, Central Mexico. This low-cost operation is 100% owned by Orla, covers over 139,000 hectares, and includes a large sulphide mineral endowment located beneath the oxide resources. We are also advancing permitting and development on our South Railroad Project, a feasibility-stage, open-pit heap leach project located on the prolific Carlin trend in Nevada. This project is part our larger South Carlin Complex which includes a prospective land package. We recently acquired the Musselwhite Mine located in Northern Ontario on Lake Opapimiskan, a gold mine with more than 25 years of operating history. The addition of Musselwhite has allowed Orla to more than double our gold production and provide a strategic entry into a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction. The Musselwhite Mine is highly prospective with potential to expand resources and mine life for years to come.

Orla is building a legacy of excellence, respect and sustainable value through responsible gold mining.

We are striving to create a net positive benefit for all and leaving a legacy beyond the life of our mines. We do this through building and operating high quality mines supported and led by an experienced team. We are custodians of the assets we run and the environments in which we operate, and we are committed to fostering a culture of excellence, care, and respect.

Purpose:

The Tailings Management Coordinator is accountable for ensuring the tailings management area is aligned with the Tailings Stewardship Strategy of Orla Musselwhite Mine. This work includes project management, performance monitoring, operational reviews, training, and managing outside consultants. Additionally, the Tailings Management Specialist supports operations, manages tailings expansion, and supports closure planning strategies. They provide operational input and support by participating in and contributing to design, drawing reviews, hazard and risk review sessions, life-cycle value assessments (LCVA) studies, process studies, lessons-learned sessions, constructability reviews, and value improving practice reviews.

Responsibilities include:

Health & Safety

• Maintain a high health, safety and environmental awareness
• Monitor own and peers' adherence to health and safety measures, protocols and standards
• Report any deviation from established health and safety measures and protocols to the technical training coordinator
• Adhere to Orla's Health, Safety and Environmental standards

Operational Excellence & Growth

• Effective leadership, guidance and support of operation teams at the mine site
• Communicating performance and monitoring issues, emergency actions, support regulatory compliance reporting, and expansion plans for tailings to communities of interest
• Ensure tailings deposition plans are optimized and ensuring accurate tailings pond forecasts
• Verify deposition plan is compliant with monthly reviews of survey results.
• Leading and promoting a safety culture and safe operations within tailings operations
• Identifying training needs, and developing and coordinating training plans at the site level
• Leading the effort to reduce design, construction, operating and closure risks at Musselwhite Mine
• Lead potential initiative for Tailings Expansion if mine life extends beyond current reserves

Work Responsibilities

• Managing internal and external consultants supporting the Tailings projects
• Establishing scope and budget and managing work by external consultants to support tailings operations
• Identification of key performance indicators related to cost, regulatory compliance, and tailings stewardship
• Implementing processes or procedures that comply with Corporate Health & Safety and Environmental Standards
• Polices and regulatory requirements

Capability Development

• Continually display diligence to ensure legislative compliance and adherence to safety measures
• Perform other related functions as assigned by technical training coordinator.
• Meet and establish performance expectations set by management.

People Management

• Treat all colleagues, business partners, and other stakeholders with respect.
• Participate in capability training per departmental procedure
  

Qualification and Experience:

• A Bachelor's degree in civil, geotechnical, mining engineering or comparable professional engineering designation an asset
• 10+ years of related mining industry experience with 5+ years in tailings management role
• Strong technical skills and understanding of tailings facilities including tailings basin operation, water balance, slurry pumping, cyclones, filters, thickeners, dam construction and raising, and monitoring as well as implementation and maintenance of Tailings Management Plans (OMS)
• Strong familiarity with geotechnical principals
• Knowledge of regulations applicable to management of tailings facilities and mine site operations, and familiarity with Canadian Dam Association and Mining Association of Canada guidelines
• Experience in solid liquid separation, tailings material characterization, deposition techniques and related environmental best practice
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Working Conditions

The schedule for this position will consist of 14 days on and 14 days off, 12 hours per day.

Compensation

• The base salary range for this position is CAD$145,000 - $160,000 per year, depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.
• This role is eligible to participate in the Company's annual short term incentive program. The target annual bonus for this position is 25% of base salary, subject to individual and company performance.
• The Company offers a Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), including an automatic 5% employer contribution, with the option for employees to receive up to an additional 4% employer match on employee contributions.