Head of Health & Safety

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an exciting opportunity for you!

Nevada Gold Mines is seeking an experienced Site Safety & Health Manager to shape and advance a world-class safety culture across a complex mining operation. This role partners with senior leadership to align strategy with execution, strengthen risk management, and deliver measurable improvements in safety performance. The position provides site-wide leadership for Safety, Health & Training (HS&T), with authority to establish governance expectations, challenge operational practices, and elevate risk or deteriorating control performance requiring leadership intervention.

This role is accountable for advancing a best-in-class Safety, Health & Training (HS&T) function by aligning site execution with enterprise strategy, strengthening operational discipline, and improving overall program effectiveness. The Manager owns the site HS&T management system, annual strategy, governance cadence, assurance framework, performance objectives, and reporting to site leadership, ensuring material risks have clear ownership, effective controls, and verified corrective actions.

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.

• Lead HS&T Strategy & Execution:
  Own the site HS&T management system and oversee all aspects of safety, occupational health, and training. Translate enterprise strategy into annual operating plans, governance routines, measurable objectives, and practical field expectations, ensuring effective delivery, regulatory compliance, and alignment with corporate standards and strategic priorities.
• Build and Lead High-Performing Teams:
  Provide direct leadership to safety, industrial hygiene, workers’ compensation, emergency response, and training functions. Establish clear accountabilities, workforce and succession plans, capability requirements, and performance expectations while fostering continuous improvement and effective allocation of people and resources.
• Drive Operational Excellence:
  Implement and enhance site-wide systems, including standardized training programs, SOPs, assurance protocols, and data management processes. Define evidence, rating, action-management, and close-out requirements that improve consistency, scalability, and field performance.
• Strengthen
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Lead site fatal risk and critical control governance by ensuring applicable risks, Critical Control Owners, performance standards, and verification expectations are clearly defined. Monitor safety trends, incidents, risk assessments, and control-verification results; escrow failed or degraded controls; and ensure corrective actions address systemic causes and reduce exposure.
• Partner with Leadership:
  Collaborate with site and senior leadership, operational managers, risk owners, and cross-functional teams to shape HS&T objectives, influence decision-making, and integrate safety, health, training, critical risk, and workforce priorities into business plans and operating processes. Provide an objective view of performance and challenge practices that do not meet the intended control framework.
• Ensure Compliance, Assurance & Reporting:
  Maintain compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements and establish a risk-based annual assurance plan informed by exposure, control performance, incidents, operational change, and previous findings. Oversee performance reporting, track findings…