Job Description

Newmont is the world's leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead. The Company's world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favorable mining jurisdictions in North America, South America, Australia and Africa. Newmont is the only gold producer listed in the S&P 500 Index and is widely recognized for its principled environmental, social and governance practices. The Company is an industry leader in value creation, supported by robust safety standards, superior execution and technical proficiency. Newmont was founded in 1921 and has been publicly traded since 1925.

Control Systems Technical Supervisor II

Musselwhite Site

Purpose

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.

This position reports to and supports the region's Manager - Control Systems and Instrumentation. The incumbent:

• Provides technical expertise and support for all fixed plant control systems within the site, including DCS, PLC & SCADA hardware, configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance and upgrades;
• Provides technical expertise and support for all ICS networking, telemetry, and all site OT infrastructure including the PI Historian suite of applications;
• Leads 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;
• Collaborates with control system vendors to manage minor upgrades, patching and incorporate new products reliably into the site ICS;
• Leads the implementation and utilisation of Newmont standard ICS applications for alarm and controller performance, downtime reporting, electronic shift logging;
• Reviews, approves, implements and audits change requests and project support, adhering to existing site configuration standards and change management (MOC) processes;
• Manages site operational expenditure and develops annual Opex/Capex budgets
• Actively participates in the global FPC system community of practice sharing lessons learned and best practices; and
• Where appropriate, recognises and manages a team to replicate best-practice solutions provided by the global FPC system community.

Responsibilities

• 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 OT infrastructure and applications, including the PI Historian suite
• Participate in the global process control community

Requirements

• Control Systems Engineer: Tertiary qualification in control systems engineering, or related discipline;
• Control Systems Technical Specialist: trade qualification in related industry and demonstrated experience 5-7 years experience working with control systems in any related industry.
• Yokogawa Centum VP DCS;
• Rockwell Control / Compact Logix PLCs;
• Schneider Modicon PLCs; or
• CitectSCADA HMI systems.
• Understanding of industrial Ethernet networks;
• ICS communications protocols including Modbus TCP/IP, OPC, Profibus, etc.; and
• IT/OT fundamentals including virtual server installations, database management, active directory management, cyber-security.
• Understanding of OsiSoft PI application suite desirable;
• Industry best practices for industrial control systems.

Working Conditions

• This job is located at Newmont's Musselwhite site, ON.
• In this role you will work a 4x3 schedule, as such if you do not live in the Thunder Bay area, we will require relocation.

As an equal opportunity employer, Newmont is committed to diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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. Accordingly, if you receive an offer of employment for this position, you will be required to provide a declaration confirming that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to your anticipated start date, and you may also be required to provide proof of vaccination prior to your anticipated start date, or at a later date upon Newmont's request. Newmont will consider individual requests for exemption/reasonable accommodation by applicants who cannot be fully vaccinated due to medical reasons or other grounds protected by applicable human rights law.