Process Superintendent

About This Role

This role is for an operations leader in charge of directing and prioritizing work for Kinross Gold Corporation's Round Mountain processing facilities. The superintendent ensures safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of mining circuits, meeting production, recovery, and cost commitments through effective leadership and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear operational direction and priorities for processing operations through General Supervisors and their teams
• Maintain technical and operational oversight of crushing, milling, classification, gravity concentration, heap leach, CIC/CIL adsorption, elution, electrowinning, refinery, and solution management systems
• Ensure stable operation within design limits by monitoring performance trends
• Focus leadership effort on systemic issues, operational risk, and sustained performance
• Ensure production plans and operating strategies are executable, understood, and appropriately resourced
• Lead operational risk management, critical control effectiveness, operating discipline, and deviation response
• Align with maintenance leadership on medium- and long-term strategies for critical assets and reliability risk
• Partner with metallurgy and technical services to prioritize improvement initiatives and protect metallurgical performance
• Serve as the processing representative on site project teams to ensure projects are technically sound and integrated
• Coordinate ore delivery, stacking rates, lift sequencing, and pad cycling plans for heap leach operations
• Drive consistency through standard work, management operating systems, and effective escalation pathways
• Champion Management of Change (MOC) for processing, ensuring formal review and controlled implementation of changes
• Own processing cost performance by monitoring trends and addressing structural cost drivers
• Own processing budgets, forecasts, and production plans, ensuring realistic operating assumptions
• Develop General Supervisors through coaching, expectation-setting, and accountability for results
• Communicate performance, risks, and priorities to the Process Manager and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements

• Minimum 10-12 years of experience in mineral processing operations
• Demonstrated leadership responsibility as general supervisor or equivalent for at least 4 years
• Strong working knowledge of gold processing operations, including mills, heap leach, and gold recovery circuits
• Proven ability to lead teams in a continuous improvement, safety-focused operating environment
• Solid understanding of production planning, cost control, and operational KPIs
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence across departments and organizational levels
• Proficient with plant data systems, reporting tools, and Microsoft Office applications
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop supervisors and high-potential employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical, Chemical, Mining, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent operational experience
• Minimum 10-12 years of experience in mineral processing operations, with demonstrated leadership responsibility in general supervisor or equivalent for at least 4 years

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a large-scale open pit and/or heap leach operation

Skills

* Required skills