Nyrstar

ETN Operations Manager (East Tennessee Mines)

Knoxville Metropolitan Area

full_time

About This Job

Key Accountabilities Safety, Health and Environment:

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Ensure compliance with statutory / legislative and corporate requirements

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Integrate SHE initiatives into departmental planning, decision making, systems and processes

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Promote awareness and establish appropriate departmental targets to prevent harm

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Ensure all hazards and sources of loss are identified, evaluated, and controlled in accordance with Nyrstar SHE Policies and the Safety Management Standards

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Be accountable for safety, health and environment activities within your department

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Ensure fitness for work compliance throughout workforce

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Conduct business of Nyrstar in exemplary manner in terms of ethical, commercial, legislative and community expectations and requirements.

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Promote the Nyrstar sustainable strategy for our community

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Develop a high level of safety and environmental awareness amongst your team

People And Organization

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Manage human resources strategically within your department to result in Nyrstar having preferred employer status and being a high achieving organizational environment

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Ensure departmental practices support effective employee relations

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Ensure employees are trained and held accountable for roles

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Align departmental and employee objectives to the Business Plan and Nyrstar Values and Behaviors

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Promote and manage effective leadership, performance management, career development and succession planning of team personnel

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Consistently apply workplace management procedures to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, agreed values and behaviors and Nyrstar Code of Conduct

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Appropriately prioritizing activity to continuously achieve targets

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Establish processes/systems to align with the Business Plan and assist in exceeding expectations

Operations And Reliability

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Lead Mine Operations positive growth and improvement of all work activities and performance standards

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Manage Mine Operations personnel to ensure adherence to approved procedures and to contribute to quality improvement within the operation

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Manage mine production and development in accordance with short- and long-term schedules and optimize cost effective recovery from the ore reserve.

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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.

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Coordinate Mine Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological input through the Mine Technical Services Department or consultants as required for achieving plan targets.

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Coordinate the East Tennessee Mining Department operating budget.

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Manage expenditure to within budget and reforecast as required to achieve the Annual Plan.

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Ensure all projects are effectively budgeted and monitored within time, quality and cost constraints.

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Understand cost drivers in the mining department and seek continuous improvement in unit cost performance.

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Achieve or surpass production objectives in accordance with budget and commercial requirements

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Ensure that systems and processes for the operations are established such that production targets are met and losses reduced.

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Utilize assets to manage a quality outcome and minimize costs.

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Achieve or exceed customer expectations by ensuring supply & specifications of product are met

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Ensure planning is reliable, robust and repeatable

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Promote and reward innovation to improve methods and processes of the mining business

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Influence best practice in planning activities before implementation

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

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BS in Mining Engineering or an associated field

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15 years mining experience, preferably underground

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10 years' experience in roles with increasing responsibility in either Mine Engineering / Mine Management

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Experience in working to budgets and capital cost expectations

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Desirable SAP Experience

COMPETENCIES

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Demonstrated ability to contribute and work effectively in a group as a team leader

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Provides current, direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others in a prompt and efficient manner

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Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills

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Strong communication and leadership skills

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Sound methods and approaches to persuade, convince or influence others

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Ability to pass on skills and experience to others.

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Strategic in business planning

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Strong project management abilities

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Self-motivated, energetic and proactive

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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

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Ability to research and develop new ideas

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High level of initiative, resourcefulness and personal organization

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Ability to direct employees to achieve set targets

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Proven relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills

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Goal driven leader who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes and coaches employees to meet high performance standards

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

This is a management position

This is a full time position

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