HSE Manager - Underground Mining

The Health & Safety Manager for Underground Mining is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of all health and safety systems and initiatives related to underground operations. This includes regulatory compliance, hazard identification, incident response, workforce training, and promoting a strong safety culture in challenging and dynamic underground mining environments.

Responsibilities

- Health & Safety Leadership:

- Lead all underground safety efforts across the project, ensuring alignment with corporate standards, client expectations, and applicable regulations.

- Promote a proactive safety culture, acting as a mentor and coach for workers, supervisors, and contractors.

- Provide on-site leadership, conduct safety tours, field inspections, and risk assessments.

- Regulatory Compliance

- Ensure compliance with provincial/federal mining and occupational health & safety legislation (e.g., Mines Act, WSCB, WSCC, MSHA).

- Liaise with regulatory bodies and prepare for site inspections, audits, and reporting.

- Risk Management & Hazard Control

- Oversee underground-specific risk assessments including ground control, ventilation, equipment movement, and confined space entry.

- Lead Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), Critical Task Observations, and implementation of control measures.

- Training & Competency

- Develop and deliver underground-specific safety training programs (ground support, ventilation, SCBA, tag-in/tag-out, etc.).

- Verify worker qualifications and ensure ongoing competency evaluations.

- Incident Management

- Lead investigations using ICAM or equivalent methodology for underground incidents.

- Prepare reports, identify root causes, and track corrective actions to closure.

- Documentation & Reporting

- Maintain safety documentation, statistics, and leading/lagging indicators.

- Submit daily, weekly, and monthly H&S reports as required by client and company.

- Emergency Response

- Oversee underground emergency response plans, mine rescue coordination, and drills.

- Ensure adequate equipment, communications, and training are in place and functional.