Underground Production Manager at Barrick – North Mara Gold Mine Limited 2022

Responsibilities

• Manage
  the Underground mining operation in compliance with Tanzanian Mining
  (safe working) Regulations and Barrick’s Health Safety and Environmental
  site requirements.
• Leadership necessary to ensure that
  employees and contractors adhere to safety standards that exceed world
  industry standards and any applicable legislation and achieve Zero Lost
  Time Injury (LTI) Frequency Rate.
• Assist in developing mine
  plans with the mine planning department and execute the mining plan to
  ensure optimum exploitation of North Mara ore body.
• Manage the Underground mining operation to ensure ore is delivered to the ROM stockpile at optimum cost and in a timely manner.
• Cooperative
  management and leadership with Engineering Manager and Geology Manager
  to ensure best results for equipment availability, utilization and
  optimum dilution control and ore reserve management.
• Develop and
  implement monitoring systems and procedures to ensure all underground
  mining costs are minimized and that all adverse variations are reported,
  followed up and remedied.
• Create a working environment which
  ensures that employees and contractors gain new skills and achieve their
  full potential by developing and implementing effective training and
  mentoring programs.
• Continually review every aspect of the mine
  department to ensure that opportunities to add value and increase
  shareholder wealth are identified and implemented.
• Implement
  employee performance management processes to ensure optimum employee
  performance, in order to identify and remedy substandard performance and
  behavior.
• Play a leading role in all appropriate industry
  committees, government working parties and community groups to ensure
  that North Mara interests are represented and protected.
• Participate
  in the North Mara senior management team to ensure that targets for
  resources exploitation, capital management, cost control, safety
  performance, employee development, environmental management and
  corporate governance are achieved.
• Manage Succession Planning
  within the Underground Mining Team to ensure progressive development of
  Tanzanian employees to assume positions of increasing accountability.
• To
  be pro-active in all aspects of operational safety, efficient
  utilization of the resources, Continuous Improvement ideas and Projects;
  and encourage teamwork across the departments.
• Manage business
  decisions and transaction in compliance to the Company Code of Ethics
  and compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) law and standards.
• Ensure
  the Underground mining fleet dispatching system is fully functional and
  operational and is used to maximum efficiency for optimal mine
  operations.
• Ensure all equipment damages are reduced to zero with an effective drive on operational excellence.
• Taking accountability for the effectiveness of the environmental management system.
• Ensuring
  that the environmental policy and environmental objectives are
  established and are compatible with the strategic direction and the
  context of the organization.
• Ensuring that the resources needed for the environmental management system are available.
• Communicating
  the importance of effective environmental management and of conforming
  to the environmental management system requirements.
• Ensuring that the environmental management system achieves its intended outcomes.
• Directing and supporting persons to contribute to the effectiveness of the environmental management system.
• Promoting
  continual improvements and supporting other relevant management roles
  to demonstrate their leadership as it applies to their area of
  responsibility.

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