Director – Health, Safety & Risk

Job Type: Location Type: On-site

 

Who Are We?

SSR Mining Inc. is an intermediate gold company with five producing assets located in the USA, Turkey, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets in the USA, Turkey, and Canada.

SSR’s commitment to safety, collaboration, and excellence allows us to continue building upon our already strong foundation. With an industry-leading pipeline of projects, strong financial positioning, and talented employees, we look forward to our bright future!

Job Description:

This position supports the VP, Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability in the development and implementation of the safety, health, security and risk management strategic plan aimed at achieving SSR Mining’s value of ‘Safety first, always’. This role will manage key management systems and provide information and recommendations that support the continuous management of risks and their controls within SSR Mining.

The Day to Day:

• Sets the strategy for SSR Mining’s safety, health, risk, and management systems and is accountable for the implementation of the strategic plan
• Manage development, implementation and ongoing improvement of safety and health management systems and procedures globally
• Sets standards for risk assessments and facilitates risk assessments through common risk assessment techniques, e.g., bow tie analysis, HAZOP, LOPA, job safety analysis, field level risk assessment, etc.
• Manages development implementation and ongoing improvement of health, safety and risk information management systems globally
• Manages the corporate health, safety and risk audits/assessments program
• Develops and facilitates training and educational programs
• Develops analysis and reports trends on health, safety and risk management data
• Provides on-site safety and health management support at operating assets and projects
• Provides incident investigation and root cause analysis oversight and support
• Develop various safety and health related reports and ensure appropriate distribution and feedback

Is This You?

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in safety, health, risk management, or related field
• Master’s degree (MA/MS) in health & safety management, risk management, mining engineering, or related discipline and assets preferred
• Direct experience working in a mining organization
• Knowledge of contemporary mining health, safety and risk management systems and practices
• Ability to travel internationally and work at altitude (14,000 ft+). Medical verification required
• Expected range of regular travel: 30% – 40%
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with site and corporate personnel
• Able to develop corrective actions, and provide consultation to address complex company problems/issues that lack precedent and require advanced technical skills and knowledge to resolve
• Able to work independently, facilitate teams and under a flexible work schedule when required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to conduct detailed analysis using database and raw safety and health data sources
• Ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the company
• Ability to work with relational databases, software systems and O365 (Excel, Word, SharePoint, Power BI)
• Ability to demonstrate commitment to a culture that values and manages to safety excellence
• Work history that includes experience with a multinational mining company and the ISOMETRIX software platform preferred
• CMSP, CSP, CRSP, CIH, ROH, designation desirable

For applicants residing in CO, the salary range for this role is from $200,000-$220,000. Benefits: 401(k); medical/dental/vision insurance; employee share purchase plan, PTO, STI and LTI.

SSR Mining Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Employment Equity:

At SSR Mining – Seabee Gold Operation, we are dedicated to developing a talented and diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we operate. We actively promote employment equity and invite applicants to voluntarily indicate if they belong to a designated group during the hiring process. Employment equity is not about quotas or hiring individuals who are not qualified. Rather, it aims to broaden the pool of qualified candidates – including women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, and individuals with disabilities – and to eliminate barriers that may hinder their full participation in the workforce.

Women:

This describes a person who self identifies a woman. The definition recognizes that gender is a self-identification that does not necessarily match the sex of an individual.

Aboriginal People:

As per the definition contained in the Canadian Employment Equity Act, Aboriginal Peoples, refers to persons who are Indian, Inuit or Métis.

Persons with Disabilities:

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Blindness or visual impairment (unable to see or having difficulty seeing, glaucoma; however, this does not include persons who can see well with glasses or contact lenses)
• Co-ordination or dexterity impairment (difficulty using hands or arms, for example, grasping or handling tools or using a keyboard)
• Deafness or hearing impairment (unable to hear or having difficulty hearing)
• Mobility impairment (difficulty moving around, walking long distances or difficulty moving using stairs)
• Speech impairment (unable to speak or difficulty speaking and being understood)
• Other disabilities (e.g., learning disabilities, developmental disabilities and all other types of disabilities)

Members of Visible Minorities:

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Non-white Latin American (including Indigenous people from Central and South America)
• Black
• East Asian (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
• South Asian/East Indian (e.g., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or East Indian from Guyana, Trinidad or East Africa)
• Southeast Asian (e.g., Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese)
• Non-white West Asian, North African or Arab (e.g., Iranian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Libyan)
• People of mixed origin (e.g. with one parent member of a visible minority group)

The information you are asked to provide is essential for Seabee Gold Operation to comply with the requirements of the Federal Contractors Legislation, and in helping Seabee Gold Operation identify and address workplace barriers by developing employment equity programs and policies. Although participation in completing this survey is voluntary, it is important for us to obtain the most accurate representation of our current workforce.

The information you provide will be kept CONFIDENTIAL and will be used to compile an overview of Seabee Gold Operation’s workforce for government compliance purposes. In addition, the summarized results will be used to determine the distribution of designated group members in our workforce, analyze the current results, and track future progress in achieving a representative workforce. This information will not be placed in your employee files.