Technical Services Superintendent

About the role

Northern Star Resources, an ASX 50 global gold miner with operations in Western Australia and Alaska, is looking for an experienced Technical Services Superintendent reporting to the Operational Effectiveness Manager. The role works on an 8 days on, 6 days off roster, providing flexible technical support and leadership across Northern Star sites and helping build organisational capability and standardised ways of working.

Key responsibilities

• Advise on and technically review procedures, policies and standards so that safe mining activities are supported.
• Apply knowledge of drill and blast, mine planning, scheduling, ventilation, infrastructure, project management, geotechnical engineering and geology to make practical, value-adding changes across the mines.
• Develop people through training, mentoring and coaching of site personnel, and build high-performing technical teams.
• Provide coverage of key leadership and engineering roles across Production, Scheduling, Planning, Projects and Pastefill Engineering, Senior Mining Engineer and Technical Services/Planning Superintendent, and occasionally cover the Alternate Underground Manager role.
• Prepare capital requests, feasibility studies and related analyses.
• Supervise contractors and project personnel to ensure safe, timely and quality delivery.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the mining industry.
• Proven leadership and people management experience at Superintendent level, with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Clear understanding of the Work Health and Safety Act and Regulations (Mines).
• Current WA First Class Mine Manager Certification and current WA Site Senior Executive (SSE) Certification.
• Current "C" Class Western Australian driver's licence.
• St John's Senior First Aid certificate desirable.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Mining software such as Deswik (CAD, UGDB, Scheduler, Stope Optimiser) or similar, and Ventsim.
• Experience across underground mining operations, including mine start-ups and production ramp-ups.

What we offer

• Company subsidised health insurance, salary sacrifice options and a quarterly short-term incentive bonus program.
• 5 weeks annual leave for site-based employees and an annual employee share plan.
• Income protection insurance from commencement, a GoldSTARR rewards program and a parental leave policy.
• Employee assistance programs with confidential counselling and wellbeing services.

Candidates must meet pre-employment criteria including a medical, drug and alcohol screening, right to work and a valid Australian national police clearance.