Superintendent, Underground Development & Construction

South32 Group Operations Pty. Ltd. • Town of Patagonia, AZ

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Superintendent, Underground Development & Construction functions as the Construction Manager for major underground mining and infrastructure scopes and is critical to the successful delivery of the Project. The role is responsible for facilitating the safe, efficient, and timely execution of well-planned work through comprehensive oversight of contractor design, engineering, planning, management, and construction activities. This role works closely with contractors and internal stakeholders; oversees all phases of underground development and construction activities, including Shaft Surface Construction, Shaft Sinking, Headframe Changeover, Shaft Equipping, Shaft Station Construction and Development Breakouts, Underground Lateral Development, and Underground Infrastructure Construction.
The role is accountable for ensuring contractors execute work in alignment with project objectives, safety expectations, technical requirements, and schedule commitments. Responsibilities include oversight of design reviews, construction work package planning, contractor staffing and resourcing, schedule development and progress monitoring, procurement and material tracking, readiness verification, risk assessments, and validation of critical controls. This role is based at the Hermosa Project site, near Patagonia, Arizona.

Requirements

• 10+ years of underground mining project development experience coordinating design and field installation
• Relationship building skills: demonstrated empathy, emotional intelligence and cross-cultural effectiveness with the ability to achieve consensus and build alignment cooperatively
• Maintain high standards of professional and ethical conduct
• Analytical, and capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems
• Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team
• Organizational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and the engineering and construction teams on track
• Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
• Experience in scheduling, monitoring and forecasting resources for optimum efficiency
• Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience
• Strong English language written and oral communication skills
• Drive company vehicle and be covered under company insurance
• Demonstrated ability of above requirements

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mining, Engineering or other equivalent qualifications and experiences preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of Project Fatal Risks and ensure the presence of Critical Controls across all Underground Development & Construction work fronts
• Monitor and report on Safety Performance for all work packages
• Engage with Health, Safety and Security and Environment & Permitting to address any undesirable trends and provide visible leadership in all aspects of Critical Risk Management and Environmental Stewardship
• Monitor contractor quality control activities and arrange appropriate quality assurance surveillance and testing for ongoing and completed work
• Monitor field installation work and changes to ensure conformity with governing regulations and project environmental and community commitments
• Ensure project materials and workmanship meets the project quality standards and design requirements
• Review of Engineering Deliverables with assistance of South32 Engineering and external consultants as required
• Ensure compliance with schedule and budget through oversight of Contractor compliance to Contractor and South32 Execution plans proactively communicating identified issues and concerns
• Identify technical issues or engineering conflicts and Contractor and South32 Teams to resolve conflicts and minimize impact to Project
• Coordination of the overall construction effort to ensure bottlenecks are expeditiously resolved
• Insist on proper use project document control processes
• Seek out imminent delay, disruption, or interference in Contractors’ Work and advise Package Manager of mitigation to avoid occurrence
• Effectively communicate support needs to build relationships with and engage internal stakeholders
• Communicate and collaborate with peer-level roles to resolve conflicts and minimize or eliminate impacts to Project
• Prepare and deliver daily and weekly reports and presentations in conformity with the internal package management processes
• Supervise, direct, coach and train Construction Coordinators
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Package Manager Underground Development & Construction

Benefits

• Annual short-term incentive bonus that recognizes both your individual performance and the overall success of the business.
• South32 will match retirement savings contributions up to a certain percentage.
• South32 provides you with 4 weeks paid time off.
• 12 weeks full-paid parental leave for primary careers and 2 weeks full-paid parental leave for secondary careers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior