Health & Safety General Supervisor

Kinross • Nevada, United States • 2d ago

Round Mountain is an open-pit mine located in Nevada, one of the best mining jurisdictions in the world. The mine uses conventional open-pit mining methods and processes ore by mill and heap leach. Kinross began operating the mine in 2003, and it has since become a continuous improvement leader in the Company’s portfolio. Round Mountain poured its 15 millionth ounce in 2018. Round Mountain and the nearby Bald Mountain mine make up Kinross’ Nevada operations.

The Round Mountain mine is an important contributor to the Nye County economy and, working with local stakeholders, has helped achieve significant improvements in healthcare and education in the area.

Job Summary

The Health & Safety General Supervisor provides leadership to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient execution of mining operations across surface, underground, construction, drilling, and exploration environments. This role integrates operational supervision with advanced safety leadership, ensuring critical risk controls, regulatory compliance, and company safety strategies are embedded into daily work execution.

This role leads and supports crews, leadership, and business partners while translating site and corporate safety strategy into practical field execution. The H&S General Supervisor drives operational discipline, workforce engagement, critical risk management, risk reduction, and continuous improvement while modeling company values and fostering a strong, inclusive Safeground culture.

Essential Functions

Key Leadership Accountabilities
• Promote a high-performance culture by setting expectations, conducting performance reviews, and providing feedback and coaching.
• Support frontline crews, leadership, and Business Partners (BP) to ensure safe, productive execution of production, construction, development, and maintenance work through visible field leadership.
• Translate site safety strategy, project safety plans, and regulatory requirements into clear field expectations.
• Ensure critical controls are understood, verified, and functioning before and during task execution.
• Drive strong work planning discipline aligned with risk management and operational priorities.

Safety & Risk Management
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, company, and site H&S standards.
• Lead hazard identification, risk assessments, and critical control verification activities.
• Support and lead incident investigations, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions / preventative controls are implemented.
• Maintain and support risk registers, action tracking, and assurance activities.
• Lead and participate in audits, inspections, and safety verifications.
• Facilitate risk reviews, High Potential Incident reviews, learning teams, and operational safety conversations.

Team Leadership & Workforce Development
• Develop stakeholders as applicable.
• Coach crews and leadership on risk-based decision making and safe work execution.
• Support workforce training, competency verification, and certification compliance.
• Build capability across teams to strengthen risk ownership and operational discipline.
• Reinforce company values and positive safety culture through daily leadership behaviors.

Business Partner Integration
• Ensure Business Partner (BP) work meets company safety and operational standards.
• Support BP selection, onboarding, and performance monitoring through ISN (BP and supplier information management).
• Collaborate with BP safety leadership to ensure aligned expectations and outcomes.
• Ensure contract scopes include appropriate safety and risk controls.

Emergency Response & Preparedness
• Support emergency response planning and readiness.
• Ensure emergency response resources, equipment, and medical support are operational and compliant.
• Provide leadership during emergency events and coordinate with emergency services when required.

Essential Functions Continued

Data, Performance & Continuous Improvement
• Demonstrated knowledge of budget management, including planning, tracking, forecasting, and aligning resource allocation to operational and business priorities.
• Monitor leading and lagging safety indicators and operational performance trends.
• Use data and field observations to drive targeted risk reduction strategies.
• Support safety budgeting, resource planning, and strategic safety planning.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with company and site safety strategies.

Core Competencies (Leadership, Technical & Risk, and Business & Operational)
• Visible field leadership and credibility with operational and support teams.
• Coaching, mentoring, and development of capability.
• Influencing safe work behaviors and decision making.
• Strong understanding of critical risk management and controls.
• Strong regulatory and compliance knowledge.
• Strong incident investigation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to design, implement, and continuously improve programs that proactively identify, assess, and reduce risk, enabling safe, reliable, and efficient operational execution.
• Understands link between safety, production, and operational performance.
• Strong planning, prioritization, and execution discipline.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in dynamic environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required to support business, operational, and leadership needs.

Physical & Environmental Requirements
• Ability to work in underground and surface mine environments.
• Ability to work extended shifts and rotational schedules.
• Ability to walk on uneven terrain and climb ladders if required.
• Ability to work in variable temperature and humid conditions.
• Ability to wear required PPE in all operational environments.

Regulatory & Stakeholder Interface
• Support regulatory inspections, audits, and reporting requirements.
• Interface with site leadership, global safety teams, and regulatory agencies as required.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of safety performance and compliance status.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Mining, Engineering, or related field preferred or equivalent operational mining leadership experience.
2. Professional Safety Certification preferred (CSP, CMSP, CRSP, CIH, MSP, etc.).
3. MSHA certification / Trainer qualification required.
4. Emergency Response or Mine Rescue experience beneficial.
5. 7–10+ years mining, construction, or heavy industry experience.
6. 3–5+ years frontline supervisory or foreman leadership experience preferred.
7. Underground and/or major project experience strongly preferred.
8. Strong leadership/team building skills.
9. The ability to present RMGC policy without bias and with consistency.
10. The ability to communicate with all levels of personnel.
11. Familiarity utilizing and navigating JDE.
12. Must be 18 years old and presently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
13. Requires valid driver’s license.

Health, Safety, and Environmental Requirements

• Adheres to all safety and environmental considerations.
• Have a strong commitment to safe working practices.
• Wears Personal Protective Equipment at all times while in the production environment.
• Is alert and observes, corrects, and reports unsafe conditions.
• Follows operating procedures and complies with all regulatory requirements.

Legislative Requirements

Background Check required

US work permit required

Language Requirements

English

Travel Requirements

Kinross is a Canadian-based global senior gold mining company with operations and projects in the United States, Brazil, Mauritania, Chile, and Canada. Our focus on delivering value is based on our core principles of responsible mining, operational excellence, disciplined growth and balance sheet strength. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol:K) and the New York Stock Exchange (symbol:KGC).