Jobs at Newmont Mining Corporation

To provide semi-skilled assistance including daily provision of lubes, fuel, grease, and inspection of heavy mining and auxiliary equipment to maintenance high standard equipment health to effective maintenance engineering of mining/auxiliary equipment.

Essential Duties

• Maintains daily/shift service, fuel and lubes records, and provides information and recommendations about the equipment to dispatchers and supervisors.
• Perform daily servicing of heavy mining and auxiliary equipment.
• Be responsible for changing transmission oil and other fluids to maintaining equipment or vehicle standards conditions.
• Greasing of all available required greasing points, bearings and examines joints components.
• Ensure service or lube trucks and its nozzles / wigins are always clean and in good condition.
• Daily inspection and report all defects on the service trucks for repairs and correction.
• Observe and adherence to all fatality risk management (FRM) critical controls.

The above duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Training & Experience

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Senior High School Certificate or Mechanical technician.

Additional Knowledge:

• General understanding of maintenance engineering.

Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year mechanical and / or electrical maintenance experience, preferably in a mining or industrial environment.

Working Conditions

Position is in a very remote location. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.

• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit in the cabin of heavy mining equipment tracking over uneven surfaces for extended periods, climb stairs, walk and stand.
• Work Environment: The noise level in the field environment is minimal. Occasional exposure to noise, fumes, high temperature, moving machinery, hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces, extreme weather conditions.
• Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask according to working conditions.

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To operate utility equipment such as small excavators, small loaders, rock breaker, recovery truck, small water truck, telehandler, stemming loader, compactor for road works, wall cleanups and etc. at Newmont in a safe and efficient manner.

Essential Duties I

• Communicate with and receive instruction from the Mine Operations Shift Supervisor and follow specified instructions and daily plans for Load and Haul, as well as Mine Dewatering, prior to the execution of activities.
• Operate one and / or a variety of fleet equipment such as small excavators, small loaders, rock breaker, recovery truck, small water truck, telehandler, stemming loader, compactor.
• Communicate with the Dispatcher regarding hazards encountered to provide sufficient information to the incoming Operators for the smooth running of Operations.

Essential Duties II

• Understand standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and standard task procedures (STP’s), according to the assigned work schedule; interpret and execute on the work schedule.
• Conduct the following activities:
  • Pit wall clean ups.
  • Building of windrows.
  • Digging trenches and other earthworks.
  • Positioning water pipelines.
  • Feeding mobile crushers.
• Inspect visually and listen to machinery and equipment to diagnose the cause of malfunctions.
• Comply with safe utility equipment procedures.

The above duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Training & Experience

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Senior High School Certificate.

Additional Knowledge:

• MINCOM Equipment Competency.
• License D & E for trucks.
• Minerals Commission Permit.
• Good knowledge of lockout / tag out procedures.
• General understanding of permitting requirements for various activities.
• General knowledge in mid-to-heavy equipment operation.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 – 3 years’ experience working with Code D & E Vehicles in an open pit mine environment.

Working Conditions

Position is in a very remote location. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.

• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit in the cabin of heavy mining equipment tracking over uneven surfaces for extended periods, climb stairs, walk and stand.
• Work Environment: The noise level in the field environment is minimal. Occasional exposure to noise, fumes, high temperature, moving machinery, hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces, extreme weather conditions.
• Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask according to working conditions.

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To support the welding and joining of poly (HDPE) pipes, using a variety of techniques, and connecting in-pit sumps to designated ponds, in a safe and controlled manner

Essential Duties I

• Install pumps in a stage / phase approach and connect pipelines to pumps.
• Conduct inspections on the following aspects, prior to carrying out work:
  • Pipelines and valves for leakages.
  • Fuel level of the pump.
  • Sumps.
  • Boreholes around the pit.
• Take flow readings from boreholes and report any detected issues to the Maintenance Supervisor
• Check pressure gauges, RPM’s, vacuum gauges and load factors and record these on the KPI sheet.

Essential Duties II

• Monitor the operation of the pumps to ensure that the water in the sump(s) are pumped, from the pit to the designated pond.
• Measure and align pipes for joining, using hand tools and measuring equipment.
• Conduct the construction, installation and laying of pipelines in the pit and the flipping of pipelines over high walls.
• Liaise with the Hydro technical team and submit completed KPI sheets to them.
• Communicate with and receive instruction from the Dewatering Supervisor prior to the execution of activities, to determine where water will be pumped to and to ensure that the system remains open.

The above duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Training & Experience

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Senior High School Certificate.
• Welding trade test.

Additional Knowledge:

• MINCOM Equipment Competency.
• Driver’s License E.
• General knowledge in mid-to-heavy equipment operation.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 – 3 years’ experience in a polywelding / pump environment within a large open pit mine.

Working Conditions

Position is in a very remote location. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.

• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit in the cabin of heavy mining equipment tracking over uneven surfaces for extended periods, climb stairs, walk and stand.
• Work Environment: The noise level in the field environment is minimal. Occasional exposure to noise, fumes, high temperature, moving machinery, hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces, extreme weather conditions.
• Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask according to working conditions.