Control Systems Technical Supervisor II ( Brong-Ahafo Region, BA, GH) at Newmont Goldcorp Corporation

About This Role:

• The Control Systems Technical Supervisor II is a member of the global Fixed Plant Control (FPC) systems team and is accountable for the availability and integrity of the Industrial Control System (ICS) infrastructure for a single site. 
• The role leads a team of Control System Specialists at the site and provides support to operations, metallurgists, maintenance, engineering, and projects departments to safely maximise production capacity across both processing and mining facilities.  

In This Role You Will:

• Provide technical expertise and support for all fixed plant control systems within the site, including DCS, PLC & SCADA hardware, configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades. 
• Provide technical expertise and support for all ICS networking, telemetry, and all site OT infrastructure including the PI Historian suite of applications.
• Lead a team to provide support to control room / operations, metallurgists, maintenance, engineering, and projects departments to safely maximise production capacity across both processing and mining facilities.
• Review, approve, implement and audit change requests and project support, adhering to existing site configuration standards and change management (MOC) processes.
• Manage site operational expenditure and develops annual Operating Expenses (Opex)/Capital Expenditure (Capex) budgets.
• Monitor the sites control system infrastructure status and resolve any issues identified.
• Implement temporary and permanent change requests to ICS software/application.
• Support projects impacting on site industrial control systems.
• Monitor, report and improve the key ICS performance metrics (alarm & controller reporting, system availability etc. for the site).
• Supervise, guide, mentor, support and develop the Control Systems Specialist team members.
• Diagnose and resolve operations and maintenance issues related to the industrial control system.
• Support the site Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure and applications, including the PI Historian suite.
• Participate in the global process control community.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

• Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):
• Tertiary qualification in control systems engineering, or related discipline.
• Additional trade qualification in related industry and demonstrated experience (see below).

Experience: 

• 5-7 years’ experience working with control systems in any related industry.
• Significant and demonstrable experience in at least one of the following systems:
• Yokogawa Centum VP DCS;
• Rockwell Control / Compact Logix PLCs;
• Schneider Modicon PLCs; or
• CitectSCADA HMI systems.

Significant exposure:

• and understanding of industrial Ethernet networks;
• to ICS communications protocols including Modbus TCP/IP, OPC, Profibus, etc.; and
• to IT/OT fundamentals including virtual server installations, database management, active directory management, cyber-security.

Knowledge:

• and understanding of OsiSoft PI application suite desirable; and
• of industry best practices for industrial control systems.

Working Conditions:
The position(s) are based at site on a roster (5:2 DI/DO) and incumbent may sometimes be required to work remotely from home.