Superintendent, Control Systems

Your Impact:

• Lead multiple sites and a regional control systems team to maximize the availability, operability, and effectiveness of all fixed plant industrial control systems and instrumentation across Newmont’s mining and processing facilities in a given region.
• This leadership position requires expertise in people management, strategic thinking, project management, effective communication, technical knowledge, and data-driven problem solving.

As Part Of Our Team You Will:

• Demonstrate proactive leadership and an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility, and sustainable development and technical regulatory compliance.
• Lead and coach a regional team of experienced professionals providing technical support, routine maintenance and continual improvements to maximise the availability, integrity and effectiveness of all fixed plant control systems within the region, ensuring operational teams can effectively deliver against forecasted production plans.
• Co-develop and apply appropriate control system KPIs and templated operational intelligence dashboards to measure control system health and performance, and apply standardised continuous improvement practices for daily, weekly and monthly reviews.
• Support site and corporate Full Potential leads to identify operational performance improvement opportunities, ensure they are incorporated into annual business plans, and partner with the central process control team to ensure they are delivered in accordance with these plans.
• Develop zero based operational and capital expenditure budgets to ensure operational support, technical refreshes, and deployment of new technologies are appropriately planned and funded.
• Align priorities with global FPC projects and process control optimisation functions and engage with site and regional leadership and professionals to ensure continued delivery of value relating to technology investments.
• Develop, document and enforce a standardised enterprise-level FPC Management Operating System (MOS) to align processes, procedures and routine tasks across all sites / regions.
• Implement and enforce a standardised enterprise-level change management procedure, ensuring that all control system changes are appropriately risk assessed, reviewed, approved and recorded in the company’s central electronic Change Management System (CMS).
• Ensure all control system hardware and software modifications are undertaken in accordance with the company’s global standards and specifications, and local statutory regulations / codes.
• Interpret legislation, government standards and agreements. Provide input / informed commentary, improvement opportunities and identify areas of risk to management.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Tertiary qualification in control systems engineering or a related field, with demonstrated competency in Electrical Safe Work.

Experience:

• Significant experience with control systems, including at least five years in a leadership role managing engineering teams or projects.
• Proficiency in IT/OT fundamentals, including virtual server installations and cybersecurity, is essential.
• Experience in developing and implementing tools to improve control system performance and utilizing data insights for decision-making is crucial.
• Strong skills in control system design, process optimization, and control strategy.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and people management abilities.
• Familiarity with gold processing and ERP systems is advantageous but not essential.

Technical skills:

• Candidates must have significant experience and advanced skills with systems such as Rockwell ControlLogix and CompactLogix PLCs, Yokogawa CENTUM VP DCS, Emerson DeltaV DCS, and Rockwell FactoryTalk SCADA.
• Candidates should have exposure to industrial Ethernet networks, ICS communication protocols, and IT/OT fundamentals.
• Expertise in control system design, installation, and lifecycle management is essential.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills are required.
• Experience in developing analytical tools to enhance control system performance and utilizing data insights for business decisions is necessary.
• Candidates must have experience managing change within control systems.
• Knowledge of gold processing and ERP systems is preferred but not mandatory.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, is essential.

Social Process Skills:

Team process:

• Understand role as a team member and team leader (where applicable) and can adjust behavior as needed.
• Understand the behavior of other individuals and the effects on the team; resolves conflicts as needed.
• As a team leader - Foster a climate that is inclusive and where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate, receive feedback and coaching.

Collaboration:

• Establish and nurture relationships with stakeholders by listening and asking questions to better understand others.
• Understand how to influence or negotiate with others to achieve productive outcomes.
• Can effectively balance positive interactions with getting the work done.

Self-awareness:

• Understand own behavior and is aware of impact on others; adapts behavior to suit context and circumstances.
• Reflect on own behavior in a variety of situations, learning from the interactions; requests feedback and identifies areas for improvement.
• Recognize and accepts the need to put the overall business needs ahead of their own and can deal with the internal conflict/stress that may generate.

Working Condition:

• The Position is located in the Ahafo North mine site.

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!

Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that fosters leaders and allows every person to thrive, contribute, and grow. We are committed to selecting and developing our employees, and to establishing a work environment where everyone can take an active part in reaching our strategic goals while feeling a sense of pride in working at Newmont.

Newmont seeks to recruit, hire, place and promote qualified applicants, meaning applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the position, without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnic, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. As part of our diversity efforts. females are encouraged to apply.

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