Site IT Lead

Description

Skeena Gold and Silver is a Canadian mining company with a portfolio of exploration and development projects located in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Our current focus is on the revitalization of the high-grade, past-producing Eskay Creek gold-silver mine. Skeena is committed to leading the industry in reconciliation, diversity, and inclusion and we work in close collaboration with our Indigenous partners, leveraging their traditional knowledge and respect for the land.

As a Skeena employee, you will become part of a dynamic, innovative, and results-driven work environment. Together, alongside colleagues of diverse backgrounds and experience you will help us operate safely, protect the environment, positively contribute to our local communities and build a state of the art mine in Canada. Come join our team to be a part of this amazing opportunity!

Reporting to the Director, Information Technology, the Site IT Lead will oversee and coordinate all IT operations at our mine site in Northern British Columbia, being responsible for the uptime and performance of critical IT networks and systems, and ensuring IT continues to meet the evolving needs of the business.

This role involves driving continuous improvement to monitoring and management capabilities, ensuring enterprise and site standards compliance, managing and executing IT projects, providing technical support escalation to the site IT team, and working with the broader Skeena IT team of in-house and outsourced partners to implement strategic technology solutions. This is a key role in ensuring that the department delivers the IT services at site to meet the day-to-day needs, in addition to supporting the IT requirements of construction and the path to a producing, operating mine.

As part of a performance driven, user experience centric IT team, the individual will be tireless and proactive in their pursuit of “making things better” while showing a mature understanding of risk and impact. As a senior technical resource, the individual will provide technical escalation to the site IT team, act as a technical lead on strategic and ad-hoc IT projects and assist IT decision making and reporting by providing IT performance data and analysis.

The Skeena IT department is a service function to the business; thus, the individual will have a “customer service” mindset, looking to delight end users at all levels of the business and build relationships with key site-based positions. The individual will be part of a passionate, motivated IT team with high expectations of themselves and each other, delivering on an incredibly exciting mission to construct and then operate a world class, technology forward mine in one of the most beautiful parts of the world.

• Oversee, manage and support key site IT infrastructure, including internet connectivity, firewalls, switches, wireless links, and servers
• Serve as the primary point of escalation for IT support service delivery
• Provide on-site user support and troubleshoot technical issues as required
• Own site IT performance monitoring tools and drive continuous improvement of monitoring capabilities, dashboards, and reporting

• Perform technical implementation roles on a range of IT projects and coordinate with IT and non-IT vendors
• Provide on-the-ground operational decision‑making and technical guidance for the IT team
• Support the IT Manager with performance management activities for the site IT team

• Collaborate with the IT Director to develop and implement IT policies and procedures
• Conduct regular system audits, gather audit evidence, and generate reports
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including network diagrams, system inventories, and hardware and software inventories

• All other duties as reasonably assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Microsoft certifications in Azure and Endpoint Administration (e.g., AZ‑900,…