Senior Maintenance Engineer - Advisor
Cripple Creek, CO, US (United States)
Founded in 1921 and publicly traded since 1925, Newmont (www.newmont.com) is one of the largest gold companies in the world. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company has approximately 24,000 employees and contractors, with the majority working at Newmont's core operations in the United States, Australia, Ghana, Peru and Suriname. Newmont is the only gold company listed in the S&P 500 index and in 2007 became the first gold company selected to be part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Newmont's industry leading performance is reflected through high standards in environmental management, health and safety for its employees and creating value and opportunity for host communities and shareholders.
Senior Maintenance Engineer/Advisor
Technical Services provides global support to Newmont and its operating businesses across a range of specialized technical functions. Within Technical Services, the Asset Management (AM) function will be responsible for creating and implementing effective global asset strategies, delivering efficient asset planning and strategic insights to drive exceptional global asset performance across Newmont’s portfolio. It aims to ensure that Newmont’s asset management processes and capabilities are a source of sustainable and considerable competitive advantage for Newmont. This is achieved by focusing on business process standardization, proactive collaboration, competency and capability development, maintenance and reliability practices, relevant global productivity metrics and targeted value-adding asset lifecycle cost improvements. The AM function is focused on delivering value aligned with our philosophy of continuous improvement and rapid replication.
The Asset Management Operating Support Network (AM OSN) will provide subject matter expert (SME) and engineering support for global programs, such as Full Potential, Operate for Reliability (O4R), defect elimination, asset integrity, and root cause analysis. The Senior Maintenance Engineer/Advisor is a site based role that reports centrally, and is responsible for supporting site teams with subject matter expertise and support in rolling out recommendations from Reliability Engineers and specialized global programs including Hydrocarbon Management and Asset Integrity.
Key outcomes include:
- Provide direct management of team of Maintenance Engineers/Advisors
- Provide support to site AM teams with technical maintenance engineering/advising needs including facilitating and overseeing technical inspections, managing technical vendors on sites, and providing guidance to scope out complex maintenance work
- Support and drive site implementation of best practices and standards developed by Reliability Engineers and subject matter expert groups within the AM OSN including Hydrocarbon Management and Asset Integrity
- Communicate global AM best practices and technical vision at a site level
Essential Duties
Safety and Health
- Demonstrate proactive leadership in achieving a global Newmont culture of safety and health
- Actively promote Newmont’s safety standards and improvement initiatives
Support site AM teams with technical engineering expertise
• Implement solutions for gaps or challenges faced by site AM teams relating to maintenance engineering support
• Ensure all site AM teams are supported with best-in-class technical support when planning complex tasks, selecting and managing technical vendors, and conducting inspections
• Providing training of site personnel, including site based maintenance engineers to support Asset Management programs including hydrocarbon management and condition monitoring
Ensure governance and successful execution of AM OSN programs on sites
• Identify and mitigate challenges relating to execution and governance of global reliability engineering, hydrocarbon management, and asset integrity programs and recommendations
• Act as a regional/global champion for Asset Management programs
Support talent management for Maintenance Engineers
- Provide input into and implement global talent management strategy and pipeline for maintenance engineers including identifying and addressing training needs
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and development for maintenance engineering direct reports
Training & Experience
Knowledge:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, a technical diploma, or equivalent industry experience
- ERP system experience desirable
- Understanding of reliability principles and data driven insights
Experience:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in heavy industry
- Experience with manual and computerized maintenance planning systems
- Experience with change, communication and knowledge management methodologies
- Experience in implementing Asset Management principles and best practices across multiple sites
Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive performance improvement initiatives in a complex and global organization
- Demonstrated leadership through direct or indirect supervisory positions
- An ability to quickly assess information to diagnose problems and opportunities, with a track record of strong professional judgement and critical thinking
- An ability to manage tasks both in-person and virtually
- Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across different functions and between site and central teams
- Demonstrated ability to create data-driven business decisions
The ability to work flexibly to meet the frequent out of normal office hours requirements of leading a globally diverse team
Working Conditions
- Position may be office based or hybrid
- Position may be required to travel domestically and internationally
- Flexible hours required to accommodate global nature of work
- This role can be based at our CC&V site in Colorado, USA or our PGM site in Ontario, Canada
We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
The salary range offered for this role is $. The salary range is tied to the Colorado market for jobs performed in Colorado. The salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, training, and/or experience. The salary offer will not be based on a candidate’s salary history at other jobs, and by law, Newmont will not seek information about salary history, and candidates should not share such information with Newmont.
This role will be eligible for participation in a discretionary annual bonus program, pursuant to which an employee may be awarded a percentage of their salary based on the company’s performance and their own individual performance.
Newmont offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing. This role will be eligible for the following benefits: Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; health savings accounts; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; short and long-term disability; 401(k) program with company match; pension; financial planning; employee assistance program (EAP); adoption assistance; dependent scholarship program; tuition reimbursement; paid holidays and paid time off; paid family leave; matching gifts; and discounts on home, auto and pet insurance. All bonuses and benefits are subject to the applicable eligibility and program/plan terms and may be modified or terminated at Newmont’s sole discretion.
Consistent with Newmont’s values of safety and responsibility, we believe that COVID-19 vaccination is a critical tool to fight this pandemic and protect the health and safety of Newmont’s workforce and the communities in which we work and live. With the wide availability of vaccines in the United States, if you are offered this position, you will have to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccine prior to being hired. This requirement will be subject to an exemption process, as required by law. Newmont may update its vaccination policies/requirements at any time in its sole discretion.
Nearest Major Market: Colorado Springs