Mine Manager (Lost Creek)

Position summary: Responsible for direction and leadership of the Lost Creek Mine.  This includes overall planning for and supervision of safety, construction, and production activities at the mine. Responsibilities also include the implementation and oversight of Company strategy, objectives and policies, reporting of mine site status to management and optimizing development, production and costs.

Essential functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Promote and maintain a safe and environmentally compliant mine site;
• Manage mine site to achieve production, economic and financial objective set by the Company as well as safety, regulatory compliance;
• Develop operating plans and budgets to achieve Company strategies; 
• Provide formal monthly report to management, and other periodic reporting as requested, demonstrating operational results at projected production levels and budgets;
• Communicate Company values, strategies, and objectives to mine site personnel;
• General oversight of recruitment, hiring, development and retention of site staff, including responsibility for development and oversight of supervisors;
• Scheduling of staff and activities to achieve desired production goals within budgetary constraints;
• Ensure that federal, state and local laws, regulations, rules and site-specific policies and SOPs are observed and trained to, resulting in compliant site operations; includes interaction with regulatory agencies as needed;
• Regular attendance
• Other duties as assigned.

The preceding examples are representative of the assignments performed by this position and are not intended to be all-inclusive.

Education and Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• BS or MS Degree in In-Situ related discipline with at least five years’ experience directing personnel activities;
• Computer literacy in MS Office (including Word, Excel and Outlook) and project management software;
• Ability to track and manage costs, develop budgets, evaluate monthly costs and provide variance analysis;
• Ability to plan and budget various operating parameters and costs within the framework of mine site operations;
• Reasonable understanding of in-situ practices including geology, drilling, construction, hydrology, fluid flow and plant operations;
• Professional level oral and written communication skills.;
• Ability to direct staff to meet Company objectives for mine site development, productivity and other metrics;
• Ability to analyze technical operations issues and provide guidance to supervisors and staff on proper methods for solving.
• Valid driver’s license and insurable driving record.

Safety practices and policy:
The employee must be knowledgeable about and follow the Company's safety policies and procedures as well as enforcing safety policies and practices by the mine staff.

Physical demands and work environment:
The physical demand and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be mobile (driving, walking, standing) including in construction and operational areas of both developed and undeveloped terrain; to use hands for various tasks; to see and hear adequately to perform all essential functions and maintain a safe work environment. The employee will be required to climb (stairs, ladders, scaffolding) or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl. The employee is regularly required to sit. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and, infrequently, lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, color perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Work Environment: While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, industrial machinery, and outside weather conditions. The employee is exposed to routine industrial hazards.  There is the potential that the employee will be exposed to low-level radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. 

Applicants must currently be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an equal opportunity employer. 

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