Responsable de secteur - Résidus miniers et formes de surface / Area Manager - Tailings and Surface Landforms

Your new company

The Windfall Project, owned by Gold Fields, is in northern Québec. By joining our passionate team, committed to creating lasting value beyond mining, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the construction and startup of a world-class mining project, one of the most ambitious in recent decades.

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with operations in Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Peru, Canada and Chile. At Gold Fields, we are committed to achieving an inclusive workforce and recognize that the diverse talent of our people will ultimately determine our growth, performance and success.

This is a role that offers you the opportunity to lead high-impact initiatives, collaborate with experts, and contribute to the global growth of our operations and in Québec. You will thrive in a dynamic environment where challenges and an exceptional workplace will support your professional growth.

Join the Windfall adventure!

Your new role

With the adoption of a dry-stacked tailings facility for the Windfall project, you will be accountable for delivering a state-of-the-art tailings facility that looks to eliminate risks associated with traditional dam designs. The design and construction activities will need to be closely integrated to ensure that the Windfall project has the most safe and efficient facility possible which is also expandable for future production profiles.

Specifically, this role will be accountable for:

• Ensuring that there is a design for all surface landforms, including waste and ore stockpiles and the Tailings Storage Facility.

• Overseeing all geotechnical investigations for the facilities.

• Managing the engineering service providers to ensure that an optimal, but critically safe design is developed, that complies with the latest in international standards for landform facilities. 

• Ensuring that the designs are developed with operations at the forefront, not only in delivering a design that meets the operating criteria, but that facilitates safe and efficient operations and expandable for future potential production profiles.

• Overseeing the overall strategy for storage of waste for the long term for the project.

• Ensuring compliance with environmental permitting requirements for the landforms and associated issues, including surface water impacts.

• Working with the other Area Managers to ensure that there is a fully integrated asset design and operating strategies.

• Developing contracting and construction strategies, integrated with the delivery of all other parts of the project, including mining activities.

• Overseeing the safe and efficient construction of the landforms (including the TSF).

By efficiently managing and allocating resources, you will drive optimal project execution, ensuring that every aspect runs smoothly and effectively. Your strategic vision will be instrumental in developing and implementing comprehensive engineering, procurement, and construction strategies that align with and meet the project's ambitious goals and objectives.

What you'll need to succeed

• Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (Project management qualifications highly regarded).

• 10+ years of experience with tailings storage facilities (TSF) or water management systems.

• 8+ years of experience in managing large-scale construction projects in mining. 

• Bilingual (able to communicate with clients and stakeholders in English and French)

• Leadership qualities to motivate and guide engineering, procurement and construction teams

• Collaborative skills to work with functions and other areas in scope delivery

• Ability to conduct thorough site inspections and evaluation

• Proficient in data analysis and reporting for performance assessment

What you'll get in return

• Working from the Montreal project office for the remainder of the design and planning phase, you will have access to a vibrant, modern workspace that will enable a high degree of collaboration with other leaders in the project

• Exceptional career development as a senior leader on one of the largest mining projects in the past decade in Quebec.

• A unique opportunity to lead the delivery of Non-Process Infrastructure for a greenfield project, that will see the best technologies embedded into the startup of the operation. 

• Access to global projects networks to leverage the best of practices across Gold Fields

• Highly competitive compensation

• Collective insurance plan

• RRSP

• And much more!

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to Danielle.Furtado@hays.com, or call us now 416-203-6743.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Please note that the masculine form used in this document refers to both men and women. The masculine gender is used without discrimination and for the sole purpose of lightening the text.

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