Founded in 1993, Kinross is a Canadian-based senior gold mining company with operations and projects in the United States, Brazil, Mauritania, Chile and Canada. Our focus on delivering value is based on our four core values of Putting People First, Outstanding Corporate Citizenship, High Performance Culture, and Rigorous Financial Discipline.

Mining responsibly is a priority for Kinross, and we foster a culture that makes responsible mining and operational success inseparable. Our values-based approach ensures that sustainability and our environmental, social and governance commitments are a core part of our strategy and plans for future growth. In line with our values, we also aim to build meaningful partnerships with all of our stakeholders, including communities, shareholders, employees, governments and suppliers.

Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: K) and the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: KGC).

Job Summary

The Principal Rock Mechanics Engineer serves as the Company's senior technical specialist and subject matter expert for underground rock mechanics, geotechnical risk management, ground control, and excavation stability. The position provides independent technical assurance and technical leadership across underground operations, projects, and studies, ensuring that geotechnical risks are identified, assessed, communicated, mitigated, and managed throughout the mine life cycle. The role is a key interface between site operations, project and study teams, Kinross Technical Services, senior leadership, and external consultants. It establishes and maintains underground geotechnical standards, challenges critical assumptions, reviews material technical decisions,



and leads complex investigations requiring advanced rock mechanics expertise. The position primarily provides governance, assurance, review, and specialist guidance and provides operational support to site teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Geotechnical Risk Management and Governance

- Serve as the Company's technical authority for underground geotechnical risk management and ground control.
- Lead the identification, assessment, communication, and mitigation of geotechnical hazards and risks across underground operations, projects, and studies.
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve corporate underground geotechnical governance frameworks, standards, design criteria, risk management processes, and verification systems.
- Provide independent technical assessment of geotechnical risks and opportunities to site leadership, Kinross Technical Services, project leadership, and senior management.
- Support development, implementation, review, and audit of Ground Control Management Plans and associated site standards, procedures, and Trigger Action Response Plans.
- Lead or support investigations of significant ground control incidents, geotechnical failures, seismic events, and unexpected ground behaviour.

2. Technical Assurance and Corporate Support

- Provide independent peer review and technical assurance of critical underground geotechnical designs, analyses, models,



assumptions, and recommendations.
- Review and challenge the geotechnical basis of mine plans, strategic options, capital decisions, and major changes to mining methods, layouts, sequencing, or ground support strategies.
- Confirm that geotechnical work is appropriate to the decision being made, the level of study, the quality of available data, and the magnitude of the associated risk.
- Provide explicit technical opinions and risk-based recommendations to Kinross Technical Services, technical review committees, project teams, site leadership, and senior management.

3. Studies, Projects, and Strategic Evaluations

- Provide geotechnical leadership and assurance for conceptual, scoping, pre-feasibility, feasibility, execution, expansion, and life-of-mine studies.
- Define fit-for-purpose geotechnical investigation programs, study scopes, technical deliverables, design criteria, data requirements, schedules, and budgets.
- Review study assumptions, methods, analyses, and recommendations to ensure they are technically robust, risk-based, practical, and aligned with corporate standards.
- Provide specialist input to mining method selection, development and infrastructure layouts, stope and pillar design, extraction sequencing, stress management, backfill strategy, ground support, and mine access.
- Support project stage-gate reviews, project execution, commissioning, operational readiness, ramp-up, and transition to site ownership.
- Participate in due diligence reviews, acquisitions, divestments, option assessments, and other strategic technical evaluations.

4. Corporate, Site, and Consultant Interaction

- Act as the primary

📌 Principal Rock Mechanics Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Kinross Gold
📍 Toronto