General Foreman - Concentrator and Maintenance

East Boulder Mine
- McLeod, MT

7X7 Night shift

The General Foreman
- Concentrator leads the safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the mine-site concentrator, surface haulage, and TSF capping/IBWR placement. The role owns the rolling one- to three-month plan and translates it into resource-ready, executable one-week plans for frontline supervisors. The General Foreman anticipates and removes constraints, coordinates operating and maintenance dependencies, develops supervisors and employees, and holds the department accountable for throughput, recovery, concentrate quality, equipment availability, process stability, environmental performance, TSF project schedule adherence, and cost.

The General Foreman's primary duties are:

• Set concentrator safety, health, and environmental priorities for the one- to three-month planning horizon based on operating risk, incidents, inspections, audit findings, equipment condition, process changes, and planned work.
• Ensure one-week plans include required hazards, permits, procedures, qualifications, isolations, environmental controls, and emergency-response requirements.
• Ensure work complies with MSHA requirements, environmental permits, company standards, Critical Task Analyses, Standard Operating Procedures, and applicable training requirements.
• Confirm employees and contractors have the tools, training, qualifications, procedures, and supervision required for upcoming work.
• Establish clear expectations, decision authority, and escalation requirements for concentrator supervisors and other direct reports.
• Hold supervisors accountable for translating approved one-week plans into daily and shift assignments and for safe, disciplined field execution.
• Maintain an appropriately staffed and qualified workforce by addressing vacancies, attendance, leave, overtime, training, relief coverage, and contractor needs across the planning horizon.
• Apply performance, attendance, conduct, labor-relations, and employment practices consistently with company policy and the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• Establish and maintain operating standards for crushing, conveying, grinding, classification, flotation, reagent addition, slurry transfer, thickening, filtration, concentrate handling, water systems, and related process areas.
• Coordinate equipment access, shutdowns, start-ups, commissioning, return to service, and production impacts with maintenance, metallurgy, engineering, operations, and support functions.
• Authorize significant changes to weekly priorities, staffing, equipment allocation, overtime, contractor use, break-in work, and temporary operating arrangements within delegated authority.
• Own and lead development of the annual concentrator operating budget, establishing credible assumptions and requirements for labor, overtime, reagents, grinding media, operating supplies, contractors, consumables, equipment usage, energy, water, and other departmental costs.
• Manage resources within approved budgets and hold supervisors accountable for responsible use of labor, equipment, materials, energy, water, reagents, and contractors.
• Monitor the cost and production effects of downtime, reduced recovery, quality deviations, process instability, rework, excessive consumption, and unplanned work.
• Evaluate forecast accuracy and weekly performance against the one- to three-month plan; assign actions for variances in safety, throughput, recovery, quality, availability, consumption, and cost.
• Maintain effective communication of plant status, future risks, constraints, work in progress, and required follow-up across shifts and departments.

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