Specialist – Maintenance Transformation Job at Newcrest Mining

Newcrest Mining Stikine, BC

Work type
FIXED TERM - FULL TIME

Location
RED CHRIS MINE

Applications close
12 MAR 2023

Explore the unknown:

Newcrest is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. As a global business, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued, and supported to bring their whole unique self to work.

We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop, and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work.

Our Red Chris mine is located on the traditional territory of the Tahltan and we encourage qualified applicants from the local communities to apply. We offer several designated marshalling points within BC including Nanaimo, Vancouver, Kelowna, Kamloops, Williams Lake, Prince George, Smithers, and Calgary, AB.

Role Purpose

The Maintenance Transformation Specialist is responsible for leading and implementing process improvements and business transformations within the site. Acting as a transformation champion, the specialist will identify areas for improvement, analyze current processes and systems, develop and implement new processes, and measure the changes' success.
The specialist will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to understand the organization's goals and objectives and develop strategies to achieve them. The specialist advises senior management on using leading practices for business process design and overseeing the design, implementation and monitoring of a system of performance objectives and metrics that track how the organization executes business process reengineering processes.

We are seeking an individual for a remote opportunity working Monday through Friday with occasional travel to the Vancouver office or Red Chris site as necessary.

Accountabilities:

Manage the business transformation:
  • Identify areas for process improvement and business transformation through data analysis, process mapping, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Analyze current processes and systems to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
  • Develop and implement new processes and systems that align with the organization's goals and objectives.
  • Provide prioritization, cross functional, and cross departmental coordination to be able to implement initiatives
  • Performing business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows and develop associated data dictionaries.
  • Communicate with leadership and cross-functional teams to understand the organization's goals and objectives and develop strategies to achieve them.
  • Conduct value stream analyses and document knowledge inputs, outputs, and "as is" and "to be" processes.
  • Develop and implement performance measurement frameworks.
Manage the pipeline of initiatives:
  • Update and manage the pipeline of initiatives developed through the planning process
  • Measuring the success of changes through key performance indicators (KPIs) and other metrics.
  • Provide prioritization, cross functional, and cross departmental coordination to be able to implement initiatives
  • Prepares and presents updates to the maintenance department on transformation progress
Manage the initiative owners:
  • Identifies areas where initiative owners are not delivering expected value and highlights them for further support
  • Provide coaching opportunities to maintenance team to develop core business improvements skills including;
    • Analytical skills to identify potential business improvement opportunities
    • Business case development skills in identifying key value drivers to realize impact
    • Implementation skills that will realize the full calculated impact in business cases, and how to identify and remove blockers
Engage relevant stakeholders
  • Prepares and leads weekly update meetings and identifies key stakeholders are present
  • Gain support from individuals and within external departments to implement initiatives Manage documentation and progress
  • Identify what changes have been made during the implementation of initiatives that require updating project management software
  • Leverage project management software to be able to highlight required leadership support for initiative owners
  • Support initiative owners with developing and executing project check lists

Qualifications & Experience:

Required qualifications:
  • Masters or Post secondary degree in Engineering or related discipline
  • 5+ years of experience conducting improvement workshops and demonstrating results such as reduction of cycle time, quality improvement, reduction of work in process, and improved team building and decision making
  • 3+ years in a project management role
  • Experience in managing complex cross functional change initiatives.
  • SAP or similar ERP system experience
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Desired qualifications:
  • Experience with continuous improvement tools and techniques such as Lean Six Sigma, AGILE, Business Process Reengineering, and Theory of Constraints (TOC).
  • Maintenance working experience
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including group facilitation skills, and experience in preparing reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications
  • Experience working in a mining environment
  • Experience working at remote sites

Our commitment to you:

At Newcrest, we hold core values that focus on caring about people, working together, and achieving a high-performance culture through innovation and problem solving.

Newcrest’s commitment to diversity and inclusion respects both the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free of discrimination, as well as the cultures, religions, and governing codes applicable to each country in which we operate.

If you share our values and feel that you could make a meaningful difference in this role, please apply online before the advertised application closing date.

Job number
983328

Advertised
24 FEB 2023




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