Water and Closure Lead

Water and Closure Lead
Musselwhite Mine
Are you looking to make your mark and grow your career with a company on the rise? We'd love to have you on our team!

Equinox Gold is a growth-focused gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, operating a diversified portfolio of high-quality, long-life mines across the Canada, United States, Mexico and Nicaragua. Guided by our core values of integrity, excellence, accountability, and teamwork, we foster a safe, inclusive, and rewarding workplace where a talented, experienced team works together to deliver reliable operations, responsible mining, and long-term value to its shareholders and host communities.

Build your career at Musselwhite — a proven, high-quality underground gold mine in Northwestern Ontario, joining our portfolio through the 2026 merger with Orla Mining. Operating since 1997, Musselwhite has produced more than six million ounces of gold and continues to deliver strong results. We're investing in modern, lower-emission equipment, tele-remote and autonomous technologies, and a structure that empowers our teams to make decisions faster.

We're also proud of our long-standing First Nations partnerships, dating back to the 1992. Backed by the scale and growth ambitions of Equinox Gold, there's never been a better time to join our team.

Purpose:

Reporting to the Environmental Superintendent, the Water and Closure Lead ensures that activities, projects and initiatives related to water, waste rock, tailings and closure management are being scheduled, executed and reviewed efficiently to ensure high-quality results. They are responsible to ensure both day-to-day operations and long-term strategic planning of these projects align with permits and approvals issued by government authorities, agreements with Indigenous partners and life-of-asset planning and decision making to mitigate risk.

They are expected to provide technical expertise on project planning and execution including field monitoring and data collection programs related to environmental projects. They are also responsible for coordination between mine operations, senior management, field support staff and external laboratory services to ensure environmental guidelines are followed. The Water and Closure Lead will occasionally be required to support regulatory compliance monitoring and reporting.

The Water and Closure Lead will regularly liaise with the Sustainability and External Relations Manager and Environmental Superintendent to obtain support, collaborate and provide updates on work status.

Responsibilities include:

Project Management and Planning

Ensure that the technical studies related to water management, closure planning and progressive reclamation at site are being executed with support from technical professionals/consultants and subject matter experts. Examples include but are not limited to the tailings cover design and associated seepage aspects (modeling, planning and trial plots), surface water and groundwater management pre- and post-closure, environmental aspects of surface waste rock storage management.

Ensure water management strategic initiatives and projects focusing on water use efficiency and water stewardship on surface and underground are being executed effectively at the site through cooperation, information sharing and collaboration between key department representatives.

Ensure changes to hydrogeochemistry at the site are being actively monitored and mitigation measures are being recommended/employed when appropriate where possible.

Manage data that supports the site Gold Sim water balance and quality model such that short and long-term predictions and simulations can be performed to plan and support operational decisions.

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