General Manager Mining

The Purpose of the role:

The primary purpose of this role is to sustainably transform the mining operation through leading both operational and improvement teams to deliver significantly improved HSE, operational and cost performance

Education & Qualifications

• Post grad studies in business highly desirable.

Personal Competencies:

• Strong business acumen
• Strong leadership ability, capable of effective communicating at all levels
• Sound negotiation skills in dealing with customers and employees with ability to influence
• Critical thinking
• A creative outlook combined with practicality and a strategic focus
• Focused and results oriented, driven be excellence, change agent and highly autonomous with sense of urgency
• Sound understanding of the commercial drivers of the business
• Sound values with high integrity

Accountabilities

Operational performance:

• Create and implement annual business plans as the basis for management of the mining operation
• Lead, plan and manage site operational activities to mine planned volumes of uranium ore without injury to people or the environment, while meeting the company’s corporate expectations
• Install and maintain production planning and control systems that achievement of planned production output of uranium with specification
• Develop and maintain systems for control and response to variation to ensure consistent and capable organizational performance
• Interact with the wider company’s team to enhance logistics, procurement, reporting and systems as required delivering value to company
• Identify and manage strategic issues that could affect the ability of the operation to meet corporate, community and stakeholder expectations over the long term
• Implement and improve existing mine plans by seeking out opportunities to increase the operational characteristics
• Review and make recommendations on business case proposal, risk management and feasibility on capital projects

Business Improvement

• Lead the business improvement Mini-T’s in the mining area to deliver sustainable operational improvements
• Manage the company’s technical and external consultant support for all improvement activities
• As a member of the  senior executive team support the development, implementation and review of business strategy, policies and standards

People  

• Establish and maintain a high performance culture
• Establish and maintain a people development system to ensure continual development of talent

Health, Safety and Environment                      

• Lead the mine to achieve set targets, encourage team members to accept personal responsibility for workplace safety, quality of work. 
• Productivity and to make individual contributions to the team
• Develop and manage the systems and leadership behaviours required to enhance the Health and Safety of staff and contractors
• Ensure the environmental performance of the mine operations is sustained and improved over time

Technical Competencies & skills

• Ability to lead stable and safety operation
• Develop and implement effective management operating systems
• Demonstrate strategic thinking

Project management

• Strong technical, process or operations background
• Demonstrate competency in leading transformational change
• Proven ability to develop a business case, inputs and key drivers and achieve objectives, financial profitability and effective business relationships
• Financial Management
• Relevant experience

Minimum

• Operational management
• Leadership of business change programs
• Design and implementation of business systems and processes

Highly Desirable

• Experience working in a role involving financial, international and multidisciplinary dimensions
• Experience in implementation of the company standards, business processes and improvement methodology
• Experience across a number of operations, cultures and locations (including uranium)