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Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team you can look forward to:
- A stimulating values-based work environment
- A culture of collaboration and inclusion
- Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Career development opportunities
- A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining health and safety and community engagement
- A competitive total compensation program
- A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan
About Coeur Mining:
Coeur Mining is a growing all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada the Kensington gold mine in Alaska the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario Canada and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia addition Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.
Coeur offers a flexible hybrid work model and a culture built on safety collaboration and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.
Rainy River
Situated in beautiful northwestern Ontario 65 km northwest of Fort Frances the Rainy River mine is an open pit and underground gold and silver producing residential mine site.
The Rainy River mine located adjacent to the Ontario/Minnesota border is 65 kilometers northwest of Fort Frances Ontario and is situated half way between Winnipeg Manitoba and Thunder Bay Ontario The area is home to more than 130 species of birds and large populations of moose black bear and deer. If you enjoy outdoor activities including hunting fishing winter sports and lake country then this is an area you will love to live and work in.
Applicants who reside in Northwestern Ontario and have experience working in a cross-cultural environment coupled with knowledge of the unique challenges and opportunities presented to those living in the Northwest Ontario are assets. Hiring priority will be given to qualified applicants who are beneficiaries of the Impact Benefits Agreement (IBA) and to qualified applicants residing in the Northwest Ontario communities. (Indigenous) Members must clearly identify their status on the online job application and resume if they wish to receive priority consideration.
About the Role
Schedule: 14 days on / 14 days off 12-hour shifts (Flights and camp provided)
Position Reports To: Chief Mining Engineer
Position Overview
As a key member of Rainy Rivers Technical Services team the Senior Geotechnical or Rock Mechanics Engineer provides technical leadership for underground rock mechanics and ground control.
The role is accountable for geotechnical risk management excavation stability assessments ground support design and optimization monitoring programs and practical technical guidance to support safe and efficient mine development production and life-of-mine planning; this includes updating relevant standard operating procedures (SOPs) and the ground control management plan (GCMP).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead mentor and provide technical direction to the underground geotechnical team while promoting solid collaboration with the underground Mine Operations Mine Planning Geology Survey Ventilation and external consultants including the sites Open Pit technical services staff.
- Own maintain and continuously improve the sites GCMP associated standards including SOPs trigger action response plans and geotechnical risk controls.
- Conduct rock mass characterization structural interpretation kinematic analysis and excavation stability assessments for underground development stopes pillars brows intersections and rehabilitation areas.
- Complete and review empirical analytical and numerical rock mechanics assessments to support mine design sequencing ground support and operational decision-making.
- Develop review implement and optimize ground support and reinforcement designs for mine development production excavations rehabilitation and any areas of elevated geotechnical risk.
- Provide timely geotechnical inspections hazard assessments technical recommendations and documented follow-up for active underground headings and work areas.
- Design manage and interpret geotechnical monitoring programs and results including instrumentation seismic data cavity monitoring surveys convergence measurements and observational data; summarize the findings and provide recommendations for next steps.
- Investigate ground falls seismic events support performance issues and adverse ground conditions; identify contributing factors and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Perform advanced numerical modelling and specialist studies with external consultants including defining scope reviewing assumptions validating outputs and translating results into practical design criteria.
- Maintain and update the long-term rehabilitation and ground support replacement plan including risk-based prioritization and integration with the mine schedule.
- Provide geotechnical and numerical modelling input to the life-of-mine sequencing stope and development design pillar design mine infrastructure backfill strategy and mineral reserve assumptions.
- Support geotechnical data management quality assurance technical reporting budgeting forecasting and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Evaluate and trial new ground support products monitoring systems software and geotechnical technologies where they can improve safety reliability or productivity.
- Participate in operational planning meetings risk assessments technical reviews and emergency response activities as required.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Geological Geotechnical Civil or Mining Engineering; a masters degree specializing in rock mechanics or geotechnical engineering is an asset.
- Minimum of seven years of progressive underground mining geotechnical experience including demonstrated rock mechanics experience in hard-rock mining environments.
- Professional Engineer (.) designation in Ontario or eligibility to obtain registration with Professional Engineers Ontario.
- Demonstrated experience leading mentoring or providing technical direction to geotechnical professionals and operational teams.
- Strong working knowledge of rock mass classification structural geology excavation stability pillar and stope design ground support systems and geotechnical risk management.
- Experience with underground geotechnical monitoring and interpretation including instrumentation and seismic or excavation performance data.
- Proficiency in geotechnical analysis and numerical modelling using Rocscience software (e.g. RS3 UnWedge and Dips); experience with other software such as Itasca and Map3D is an asset.
- Experience with 3D mine design and geological visualization software such as Deswik is preferred.
- Ability to communicate complex geotechnical risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Solid technical writing professional communication problem-solving organizational and decision-making skills with the ability to balance field priorities and longer-term engineering work.
Compensation
The anticipated salary range for this position will be between $145000 to $170000.
*Note: this employment opportunity is based on an actual current vacancy not just for future consideration
Why Coeur
- Highly competitive base salary and a quarterly incentive program
- Extended health and dental benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance benefits
- Defined matching contribution to a group registered retirement savings plan
- Company Share Units
- Annual Health Spending Account
- Camp travel and meals provided
We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. Coeur Mining does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with the Company. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by Coeur Mining will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.
Inclusion Equal Opportunity Accessibility
Coeur Mining is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability protected veterans status Indigenous status or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.
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