Maintenance and Contractor Trainer

Located approximately 26 miles from the City of Fairbanks, Fort Knox is a centre of excellence for the Company as one of the few cold weather heap leach facilities in the world. Fort Knox celebrated its 25-year anniversary in 2021, and has produced over 8.5 million ounces since it began operation. In 2020, Kinross acquired Manh Choh – a project expected to commence production in 2024 and process ore at Fort Knox.

Fort Knox prioritizes being a strong contributor to the State and local communities, and since 2001, has helped support more than 300 community partners and has contributed more than US $25 million to the Alaska Mental Health Trust.

The Maintenance and Contractor Trainer develops, coordinates, and delivers practical training programs that ensure maintenance employees and contractors perform work safely, consistently, and in accordance with site standards. The role provides site-specific training for all contractors, conducts daily field checkups of contractors working on site, verifies that each contractor has completed the training required for site access and assigned work, and completes all required permits for the day.

The position also ensures that new or modified equipment, processes, and work practices have approved standard operating procedures (SOPs) and management of change (MOC) documentation in place before handover to Operations. In addition, the role works closely with the Electrical and Maintenance Supervisors to identify and schedule required training for their respective crews, maintain accurate competency records, and support continuous improvement in workforce capability, safe work execution, and equipment reliability.

• Develop and maintain maintenance and contractor training plans aligned with site procedures, regulatory requirements, risk controls, and business priorities.
• Deliver classroom, field, hands-on, and refresher training for maintenance employees and contractors.
• Conduct training needs analyses in partnership with supervisors, planners, reliability personnel, safety professionals, and contractor representatives.
• Coordinate site orientation and role‑specific onboarding for contractors before work begins.
• Attend and organize weekly contractor safety meetings.
• Coach employees and contractors on safe work practices, maintenance standards, tools, equipment, and procedures.
• Maintain accurate training, certification, authorization, and competency records in the applicable learning or document management systems.
• Monitor qualification expirations and coordinate required initial, refresher, and remedial training.
• Measure training effectiveness using assessment results, field observations, compliance trends, rework, equipment performance, and stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure training materials reflect current procedures, manufacturer guidance, legal requirements, and site standards.
• Promote a culture of safe execution, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Work with the OPS trainer with the Working at Heights program. This would include scheduling training and ensuring that all needed individuals have the needed training and are current with their training.
• Help with the roll out of Redlist to the Maintenance Crews and working directly with the OPS Trainer to provide the needed trainings for the program.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five or more years of industrial maintenance, skilled trades, heavy equipment, processing, mining, manufacturing, or a comparable work environment.
• Demonstrated experience training, coaching, mentoring, or assessing employees or contractors.
• Strong working knowledge of maintenance safety practices, hazard identification, energy isolation, permits, and…