Geology Superintendent - Production and Reconciliation

Challenge yourself with us.

Leverage your wealth of experience and successful partnerships in this career-defining role working for a global leader in gold mining.

Explore the unknown.

Newcrest is committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on gender diversity and diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

Our technical expertise is something we are quietly proud of. Through our investment in research and development, we have advanced the technical development of our mining methods, achieving operational efficiencies. Whether you are part of our offices or at one of our sites near or far, you will find much more than you expect.

Who we’re looking for.

In this role, you will provide technical input to open pit and underground geology-related projects impacting the mine value chain.

Reporting directly to the Chief Geologist, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring safe systems of work are in place for all drilling activities; ensuring personnel are trained, inducted and competent to perform work; providing competent supervision
• Warranting that there are clearly defined and effective geology execution & accounting processes in place under the sponsorship of the Chief Geologist
• Supporting Resource Geology personnel with developing high-quality models for input into the mine planning process through appropriate reconciliation practises and data analysis
• Contributing to the short, medium and long-term design, scheduling and financial modelling processes by providing high-quality orebody information
• Identifying business improvement opportunities and developing plans to realise potential benefits
• Ensuring high-performing team culture (build trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability, team results)

This is a permanent position at our Telfer Operation in Western Australia on an eight (8) days on, six (6) days off roster rotation.

Our ideal candidate will be a degree-qualified geologist who can provide safe, efficient, and cost-effective operational control and management of geology in open pit and underground mines in accordance with legal requirements and company objectives.  Provide leadership and operational direction to the work teams, ensuring resources, capacity, and capability align with the work plans.  Drives and monitors change initiatives, manages complexity, and smooths the workflow.

Other requirements include:

• Strong technical experience in metal accounting within the mine-to-mill value chain for both Open Pit and Underground operations
• Good understanding of sampling and assay QAQC practices and principles
• Ability to collaborate and develop strong working relationships with corporate and site teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Gold and copper experience preferred
• Strong analytical thinking concerning querying databases and trend analysis
• Extensive demonstrative experience in using both Vulcan and Leapfrog software.

Our commitment to you

Ownership is part of how we work. You will be part of a high-performance culture that is building our future. While structure and processes guide how we work, we continue to find opportunities to be agile and collaborative.

Newcrest is also committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on gender diversity and diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

If you are seeking a new career challenge where you can transfer your existing skills into a positive and empowering team environment, we’d love to hear from you!

At this stage, we are not accepting any external agency CVs for the opportunity.