Moly Plant - Leading Hand

Operations near and far  

Cadia Valley Operations is located in Central Western New South Wales, approximately 25 kms outside the vibrant regional township of Orange and a convenient three hours from the capital city of Sydney. Employees reside in varied accommodation options in and around the district of Orange with the surrounding area’s occupied by wineries, stone fruit orchards, farming and national parks.

Employees have access to the area’s wide range of amenities, including a prominent health sector with a modern well-equipped regional hospital, excellent educational facilities, shopping, large selection of sport and recreation options, transport and other services such as childcare.

Who we’re looking for:

We are seeking an experienced Moly Plant Leading Hand to join our Ore Processing Department at Cadia Valley Operations.

The Moly Plant Leading Hand will be responsible for coordinating and coaching of technicians on site to ensure continuous improvement of Cadia’s molybdenum processing plant.

The following areas of the Moly Plant are in the custody of the Leading Hand:

• Bulk Con Handling
• Flotation
• Mo Con Handling (filtration, drying and bagging)
• Reagents
• Utilities

The Leading Hand will demonstrate, support and encourage alignment with Newcrest values and policies, particularly:

• We act with honesty and integrity,
• We seek high performance in ourselves and others,
• We work together,
• We value innovation and problem solving,
• We care about people, and we will behave by choosing to do the right thing in accordance with these values.

Further, they will ensure compliance with Safety and Environmental Management systems, policies and procedures, including:

• Safety Leadership via NewSafe, Psychological Safety Leadership, Critical Control Management and Process Safety.
• Compliance with the Moly Plant Emissions Management Plan.
• Active reduction of process safety and nuisance odour risks.
• Act in the role of Moly Plant Warden when on shift, which entails taking control of evacuations and setting up new work fronts in the field.
• Set the standard with respect to operational discipline, housekeeping and inclusion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Diagnosing production and process safety issues in a timely manner or escalating to the Supervisor and Specialist
• Ensuring Moly Plant Technicians maintain an accurate account of the shift and outstanding issues; this is to be documented in the respective log sheet and used to communicate the plant status to the oncoming shift.
• Ensuring Moly Plant Technicians capture and raise issues within their respective areas by raising work notifications, capturing in the log sheets and escalating to Moly Plant Supervisor as required.
• Participating in shift change handover meetings which are held at the start and end of every shift and provide quality information and direction to the oncoming shift.
• Ensuring safety incidents and hazards are correctly documented and reported to the Moly Plant Supervisor. All Incidents are to be entered in CHESS in compliance with the Ore Processing Incident Reporting Guideline
• Ensuring compliance to the Parameter Board, Weekly Plan and Shutdown Plans.
• Ensuring all critical issues are communicated to the Supervisor / Superintendent in order for them to be tabled in the morning Maintenance and leadership interfaces.

Scheduling accountabilities:

• Reviewing the weekly and shutdown plans and calling out any resourcing issues or interactions.
• Building an understanding of the skill sets, behaviours, attitude and potential of their reports.
• Managing their team’s training and competencies to ensure the plant can be safely and efficiently operated.

People accountabilities:

• Setting the expectations with newstarters around ownership, effort, attitude and behaviours.
• Verifying they understand the Moly Plant hazards and controls.
• Setting short term and long term goals with the Moly Plant Supervisor.
• Examining the Final Product Plan on a Page with the team.
• Building accountability in the team for safety, environmental and production performance.
• Supporting the Newsafe opinion leaders and rallying the team around the plays.
• Organising engaging monthly safety meetings, capturing the minutes and uploading to Sharepoint.
• Building accountability in the Maintenance, SAOC and Surface Operations departments via strong rapport.

Our commitment to you  

Our people bring our organisation to life. With us, you’ll find experience all around you. Our leaders are visible and approachable, leading and supporting the organisation through transformation. We bring out the best in each other, inspiring performance and a belief in making an impact.  

Look around and you’ll discover opportunities to explore different pathways. Supported by development programs and guided by our leaders, you’ll learn and grow in your time with us. 

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

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