Position Description:

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company?

We have an exciting opportunity for you!  Our people division is growing, and we are looking for an Analytical Laboratory Supervisor at our Cortez operations.

At Nevada Gold Mines, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.

Responsibilities:

• QA/QC functions in the laboratory for daily operations

• Collect, compile and analyze large sets of QA/QC analytical data and be able to draw useful conclusions from datasets.

• Maintain, troubleshoot and optimize laboratory instrumentation 

• Researching and purchasing of new laboratory instrumentation 

• Maintain service contracts and are responsible for preventative maintenance on instrumentation

• Supervise vendor field service engineers for service visits and ensure their safety   

• Support laboratory technicians with chemistry and laboratory technical knowledge.

• Responsible for assay lab crew's safe production, environmental compliance and quality of analytical work reported
• Responsible for OTL entry and approval, manager self-service, work requests/orders, move orders, updating employee training records, status upgrades and employee performance reviews
• Responsible for controlling costs to comply with annual budget
• Prioritize and re-prioritize a large workload as needed to meet client expectations
• Promote a safe working environment, procedures, and culture
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) to ten (10) years of lab operations experience required
• Minimum five (5) to ten (10) years of supervisor experience preferred
• Knowledge of bullion approval processes preferred
• Strong trouble-shooting or familiarity with lab instrumentation (e.g., ICP, XRF, Leco, AAS) required
• Ability to work in a fast-paced demanding environment required
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the position preferred
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Project, Outlook, etc.) experience required

• Experience with Labware is preferred

   

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