Regional Senior Health, Safety and Security Director - Newmont

Newmont Mining Corporation is a leading global gold producer with key assets in Nevada, Peru, Australia, Ghana and Suriname.

Newmont’s Africa Operations holds two gold mining operations in Ghana: the Ahafo Mine located in the Brong-Ahafo region and the Akyem Mine located in the Eastern region. There is also near mine exploration and development focus in Ghana to annually replace gold reserves. Newmont Africa also has early-stage exploration programs in the African countries of Ethiopia and Morocco.

Our Africa operations employ approximately 5,900 employees and contractors, with the majority working at the Ahafo Mine. We offer an unparalleled blend of opportunity and career satisfaction with all the benefits you would expect from a global company. This, combined with our growth opportunities, makes Newmont a great company to work.

Our Akyem and Ahafo mines have made significant sustainable community development investments in our host communities. These include establishing Development Funds at our Akyem and Ahafo operational areas with each mine contributing US$1 per ounce of gold sold and 1% of net pre-tax annual profit into its community development fund.

The only gold company listed in the S&P 500 index, Newmont in 2007 became the first gold company selected to be part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Newmont’s industry leading performance is reflected through our Africa operations’ high standards in environmental management, health and safety for our workforce and creating value and opportunity for our employees, host communities and Newmont’s shareholders.

Purpose

• To develop strategic health, safety and security programs, systems and assurance to manage existing and emerging risks across the Africa regions operational, exploration and project portfolio.

Essential Duties

Strategy

• Lead the development of the regional health, safety and security risks strategies, policy and practices focusing on exposure to fatality and injury risks.
• Design the integration of existing and future health, safety and security tools e.g. FRM and Critical Learning (in partnership with HR, S&ER, Legal, OT & IT) Security threat and risk assessment.
• Provide strategic safety subject matter expertise on regional and global initiatives.
• Design the integration and customisation of health, safety and security assurance into business wide assurance programmes.
• Review end to end processes to identify innovation or technology efficiency opportunities.

Functional Leadership

• Assume core member of the global HSS leadership team.
• Assume the regional HSS lead and provide technical mentoring, career mapping and talent management.

Analysis

• Undertake comprehensive analysis of regional and site based trends in health, safety and security risks to support performance improvement across the business.
• Integrate systems and processes (system design) based on analysis and learnings e.g. critical learnings into FRM.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Actively represent Newmont Goldcorp on regional technical industry bodies e.g. chamber of minerals and embassy office of security.
• Actively partner with internal stakeholders on improving operational support and external stakeholders e.g. OEMs to improve industry practices.

Become familiar with and strictly adhere to Newmont’s Health, Safety and Environmental standards. Act as a role model in complying with and supporting these standards and practices.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Training & Experience

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Tertiary qualification in Health & Safety, Security, Engineering or Sciences.

Additional Knowledge:

• Substantial knowledge of Management Operating Systems (MOS).
• Broad business knowledge and focus, ability to recognise issues, problems and capitalise on opportunities.
• Sound knowledge of global economic, social, competitive and political trends.

Experience: 

• 10 years’ experience in organizational risk management.
• Operational experience in mining, processing (and underground is desirable).
• Experience catering for varied risks profiles across an organisation (underground/open-cut, projects/operations).

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to implement technical and behavioural health, safety and security programmes across global operations.
• Advanced communication and influencing skills.
• Experience directly and indirectly leading and inspiring a team of technical SMEs.
• Analytical capability to identify emerging safety risks.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Business acumen and commercial management skills.
• Business continuity management skills.
• Business planning and organising skills.
• Conflict and change management skills.
• Financial analysis and management skills.
• Negotiation, networking and service management skills.
• Performance-driven management skills.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Safety conscious
• Strategic thinking
• Analytical thinking.
• Assertive, influential and persuasive.
• Credibility and integrity.
• Diversity management.
• Environmental scan.
• Goal oriented and pro-active.
• Innovative and inspirational.
• Persistent and resilient.
• Results and quality driven / focused.
• Safety conscious.

Working Conditions

• The position is located at the Regional office in Accra and will regularly travel nationally to the mine sites with some international travel.
• Extended and unpredictable hours is the norm.