Mine Technician (Water Management)

Glencore

Darwin, NT
Permanent
Full-time

19 days ago

Attractive roster of 15/13
Darwin
Longevity and career development opportunities.

Mine Technician (Water Management)Glencore’s McArthur River Mine (MRM) is a world-class zinc-lead mine with a long future. You’ll find our mine in the Gulf of Carpentaria 900 km southeast of Darwin and 64 km from Borroloola. We produce and process zinc, lead and silver from our open cut mine. It is then stored and transported to our Bing Bong loading facility and shipped to our customers worldwide. Our customers use our essential commodities in everyday products for mobility, infrastructure and communications.Benefits:

13% Super
15 days on, 13 days off.
Excellent career development opportunities
salary sacrificing vehicles
Benefits program including discounts with Health Insurance providers, online and in-store discounts through Glencore Rewards.

About the role:Water management is a critical function to sustainable environmental management, mining and processing operations. Reporting into the Water Management Superintendent, you will be working collaboratively with the environment, mining, and metallurgy departments.Accountabilities:

Inspections, monitoring and reporting of dams, including assessment against Trigger, Action and Response Plans and actioning appropriately.
Data collection, management, analysis, and reporting, requiring a sound knowledge of MS Excel, and utilising real-time monitoring programs.
Working with the water planning engineers and dewatering team, to identify and action improvements to the water management system.
Safely and efficiently install, and operate, key instrumentation such as vibrating wire piezometers, water level sensors, electrical conductivity monitors, flowmeters and pressure meters.
Assist the dewatering team with asset management of key infrastructure such as pumps, pipelines, lime treatment plants, compressors, generators etc (e.g. procurement and stocktake, management of critical spares, adherence to maintenance schedules).
Assist the water planning engineers with lime stock management.
Working closely with the environment team to achieve environmental water management objectives.
Working closely with the Mining Technical Services technician team with asset management and instrumentation and assisting where required.
Effective stakeholder engagement both internal (environment, mining, metallurgy) and external contractor management (e.g. for construction, maintenance, repair etc).

Successful applicant will have:

Computer literate and skilled in the use of MS Excel, Word
Manual drivers’ licence
Experience with water management instrumentation - Preferred
Experience with data management systems (e.g. SCADA) – Desirable
Experience with external compliance reporting – Desirable
Surveying experience – Desirable

At MRM, we support the Northern Territory first, and Territorian applicants or those prepared to relocate.Glencore employees applying for this role may be asked to discuss this with their Supervisor or Manager prior to an interview taking place.For more information, contactPlease note: We may conduct interviews and hire prior to the advertising expiring.

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