ProStar Mining & Construction · 18 hours ago
Mine Manager in Knoxville, TN- Skilled, Experienced, & Safety Conscious
Knoxville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expProStar Mining & Construction is seeking a Mine Manager to lead Tennessee Mine Operations, Engineering, planning, and continuous business improvement. The role involves overseeing site operations to meet production targets and reduce losses while ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards.
Construction
Hiring Manager
Whitney Vincent
Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with statutory / legislative and corporate requirements
Integrate SHE initiatives into departmental planning, decision making, systems and processes
Promote awareness and establish appropriate departmental targets to prevent harm
Ensure all hazards and sources of loss are identified, evaluated, and controlled in accordance with SHE Policies and the Safety Management Standards
Be accountable for safety, health and environment activities within your department
Ensure fitness for work compliance throughout workforce
Conduct business in exemplary manner in terms of ethical, commercial, legislative and community expectations and requirements
Promote sustainable strategy for our community
Develop a high level of safety and environmental awareness amongst your team
Consistently apply workplace management procedures to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, agreed values and behaviors and Code of Conduct
Appropriately prioritizing activity to continuously achieve targets
Lead Mine Operations positive growth and improvement of all work activities and performance standards
Manage Mine personnel to ensure adherence to approved procedures and to contribute to quality improvement within the operation
Manage mine production and development in accordance with short- and long-term schedules and optimize cost effective recovery from the ore reserve
Coordinate the Mine Department operating budget
Ensure all projects are effectively budgeted and monitored within time, quality and cost constraints
Understand cost drivers in the mining department and seek continuous improvement in unit cost performance
Achieve or surpass production objectives in accordance with budget and commercial requirements
Ensure that systems and processes for the operations are established such that production targets are met, and losses reduced
Utilize assets to manage a quality outcome and minimize costs
Achieve or exceed customer expectations by ensuring supply & specifications of product are met
Ensure planning is reliable, robust and repeatable
Promote and reward innovation to improve methods and processes of the mining business
Influence best practice in planning activities before implementation
Manage human resources strategically within your department to result in having preferred employer status and being a high achieving organizational environment
Ensure departmental practices support effective employee relations
Ensure employees are trained and held accountable for roles
Align departmental and employee objectives to the Business Plan and established Values and Behaviors
Promote and manage effective leadership, performance management, career development and succession planning of team personnel
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Mining Engineering or an associated field
5–10 years of mining experience, preferably in underground operations
Proven experience working to budgets and capital cost expectations
Demonstrated ability to contribute and work effectively in a group as a team leader
Provides current, direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback to others in a prompt and efficient manner
Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills
Strong communication and leadership skills
Sound methods and approaches to persuade, convince or influence others
Ability to pass on skills and experience to others
Strategic in business planning
Strong project management abilities
Self-motivated, energetic and proactive
High level of initiative, resourcefulness and personal organization
Ability to direct employees to achieve set targets
Company
ProStar Mining & Construction
ProStar Mining & Construction is dedicated to being an industry-leading provider of innovative solutions for the underground construction and mining sector.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase