Position Title: Superintendent - Mine Technical Service

Employment Type: Permanent, Full time

About Burgundy Diamond Mines

Burgundy Diamond Mines is a premier global diamond company that proudly produces and delivers ethically sourced diamonds from mine to market. Tracing diamonds end-to-end from its world-renowned Ekati Diamond Mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories, right through to retail diamond sales, creates unquestionable diamond origin and traceability.

Founded in Perth, Western Australia, Burgundy has established itself in the market through its innovative strategy and unique vertically integrated business model, focused on capturing margins along the full value chain of the diamond market. Burgundy is part of CanadaMark™, a program that assures manufacturers, retailers and customers, that Burgundy Diamonds are sustainably produced and support ethical investment in Canadian Northern Indigenous communities.

Burgundy has an office and a cutting and polishing facility in Perth, Australia, an office in Calgary, Canada and a diamond sales office in Antwerp, Belgium.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Head of Mine Technical Services working four (4) by (3) rotation at the Ekati Mine site, the Superintendent – MTS will develop and communicate risk assessed Short and Medium term mine and production plans that maximize the utilization and effectiveness of the Production Department and the mineral resource. They will maintain the risk management system to manage Irrespirable atmosphere, Inrush, and Fall of Ground  risks at Ekati. Monitor effectiveness of the existing controls for these risks and to develop and communicate plans to improve these controls. Provide geoscience services to support development and communication of risk assessed short term mine and production plans that maximize the utilization and effectiveness of the Production Department and the mineral resource. 

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensure that mine design, ventilation and maintenance of mine plans, and Ground Stability Design, Water and Drainage activities and related Reportable Incident reporting are conducted in accordance with the NWT Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve Ekati’s mining engineering and geological sciences processes, procedures and tools.
• Ensure that Material Risk Management Plans, Standards, Procedures, Work instructions and JHAs for Irrespirable Atmosphere, Mud Inrush, and Fall of Ground are routinely applied and regularly reviewed and updated in order to ensure adequate control of these risks.
• Provide detailed, safe and practical weekly mine activity schedules for the underground and open pit operations to support execution of the 12 Week Integrated Mine Plan.
• Provide optimized, risk assessed and achievable 12 Week Integrated Mine Plans and Schedules that incorporate all resources required to deliver carats from Ekati.
• Design excavations for dewatering infrastructure in accordance with capacity and location advice provided by the Geosciences group.
• Conduct scenario analysis and risk review to determine optimized production plans for the 24 month schedule.
• Complete mine planning tasks including development of Budget physicals for the yearly Budget cycle.
• Complete stope design, provide drill & blast designs and deliver operational instructions to support drill & blast activities at Ekati.
• Provide day to day geotechnical management of the operation through monitoring and regular inspections of the mine operations.
• Provide day to day ventilation management of the underground operation including ventilation design, monitoring and reporting.
• Provide cave engineering services including cave design, flow modelling, reserve depletion and provision of detailed draw rules and cave commandments to support daily cave management.
• Manage the Ekati Mine Planning capital and operating budgets.
• Complete all Reserve reporting as required by National Instrument 43-101 and National Instrument 52-102.
• Complete corporate reporting as required. (eg Diamond Cycle reporting).
• Provide operational mining engineering support to the Resource Planning and Development Department and the Projects Department.
• Complete exploration drilling, geological modelling and geotechnical characterization for Ekati.
• Conduct hydrology investigations, determine capacity requirements for dewatering systems and provide operational instructions to manage water ingress and inrush risk to the mine operations.

Education/Experience

• A tertiary qualification in Engineering (mining, geological)
• Designation as a Professional Engineer in the Northwest Territories or the ability to obtain this designation.
• NWT WCB Supervisor Two certification or the ability to obtain this.
  

What we offer

At Burgundy Diamond Mines, we believe people are our most important asset. This is why we are fully committed to the health, safety and well-being of our employees. We believe in establishing strong lasting and respectful relationships with the people and communities with whom we work.

We are dedicated to developing our workforce and to creating an environment where people can learn, grow and take on new responsibilities. We build capacity within our workforce by offering leadership training, apprenticeship positions and adult education initiatives.

Burgundy Diamond Mines offers a competitive salary, performance bonus and total compensation package, including company paid extended health, dental and vision care, an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP), employer matched pension, generous paid vacation and personal days, as well as a Dependent Scholarship Program and employee discounts. On site we provide accommodations and meals, a fully equipped gym and recreation facilities,

Additional Information

The Company provides travel to and from the Ekati mine site out of Calgary, Yellowknife, and other northern fly points.

Preference will be given to qualified applicants from our Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) Groups. Members should clearly identify their IBA status on the online job application and resume to receive priority consideration.

 Visit https://burgundydiamonds.com/careers/ to apply.

Closing Date: This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.