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Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:
- A stimulating values-based work environment
- A culture of collaboration and inclusion
- Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Career development opportunities
- A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement
- A competitive total compensation program
- A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan
About Coeur Mining
Coeur Mining is a growing, all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, Canada, and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.
Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture built on safety, collaboration, and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.
Rainy River
Situated in beautiful northwestern Ontario, 65 km northwest of Fort Frances, the Rainy River mine is an open pit and underground, gold and silver producing, residential mine site.
The Rainy River mine, located adjacent to the Ontario/Minnesota border is 65 kilometers northwest of Fort Frances, Ontario and is situated half way between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Thunder Bay, Ontario The area is home to more than 130 species of birds and large populations of moose, black bear and deer. If you enjoy outdoor activities including hunting, fishing, winter sports and lake country then this is an area you will love to live and work in.
Applicants who reside in Northwestern Ontario and have experience working in a cross-cultural environment, coupled with knowledge of the unique challenges and opportunities presented to those living in the Northwest Ontario, are assets. Hiring priority will be given to qualified applicants who are beneficiaries of the Impact Benefits Agreement (IBA) and to qualified applicants residing in the Northwest Ontario communities. (Indigenous) Members must clearly identify their status on the online job application and resume if they wish to receive priority consideration.
About The Role
Schedule: 14x14
Position Reports To: General Manager
Position Summary
Reporting to the General Manager, the Mill Manager is responsible for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of the Rainy River process plant. This includes mill operations, metallurgy, the assay lab, and mill-related projects.
The Mill Manager provides leadership and technical direction to achieve production, recovery, cost, safety, and environmental targets. The role requires strong gold processing experience, practical operating judgement, and the ability to lead cross-functional work with Maintenance, Mine Operations, Technical Services, Supply Chain, Finance, and site leadership.
Rainy River is a large-scale gold operation with a conventional gold processing flowsheet, including crushing, SAG milling, ball milling, gravity concentration, leaching, CIP, elution, refining, cyanide destruction, and associated reagent, water, and tailings interfaces.
Key Responsibilities
Health, Safety and Environment
- Provide visible safety leadership across the mill, metallurgy, assay lab, and project teams.
- Ensure work is planned and executed safely, with proper training, procedures, risk assessment, and field verification.
- Reinforce compliance with site standards, regulatory requirements, environmental permits, and operating procedures.
- Support strong housekeeping, lockout discipline, critical risk controls, and incident follow-up.
- Work closely with Environmental and Tailings teams to ensure mill activities support compliance and responsible water and tailings management.
Mill Operations
- Lead the process plant to meet or exceed production targets for throughput, recovery, availability, operating time, and cost.
- Provide direction for the safe and efficient operation of crushing, grinding, gravity, leach, CIP, elution, refining, cyanide destruction, reagent systems, and related plant services.
- Monitor plant performance and ensure operating teams are focused on the right priorities each shift.
- Identify and resolve operating constraints affecting throughput, recovery, downtime, reagent consumption, and metal accounting.
- Ensure proper shift communication, production reporting, operating discipline, and follow-up on key issues.
Metallurgy and Technical Performance
- Provide leadership to the metallurgy team on recovery improvement, process control, plant trials, metallurgical accounting, sampling, test work, and production reconciliation.
- Ensure metallurgical accounting practices are accurate, consistent, and aligned with site and corporate standards.
- Support ore blend management, head grade tracking, gold-in-circuit control, gravity recovery, reagent optimization, and recovery forecasting.
- Lead technical reviews and improvement work related to SAG mill and ball mill performance, CIP performance, gravity recovery, cyanide destruction, and plant stability.
- Translate technical findings into practical operating actions.
Assay Lab
- Provide oversight of the assay lab through the lab leadership team.
- Ensure assay turnaround, accuracy, quality control, safety, staffing, and cost performance meet site requirements.
- Support clear communication between the lab, metallurgy, mine geology, operations, and finance where assay results affect production reporting and reconciliation.
Maintenance and Reliability Interface
- Work closely with Maintenance to improve plant availability, reduce repeat failures, and prioritize work based on production risk.
- Support shutdown planning, weekly work prioritization, defect elimination, and equipment reliability improvement.
- Ensure operating practices protect major equipment, including crushers, conveyors, SAG mill, ball mill, pumps, cyclones, thickeners, tanks, screens, and process control systems.
- Provide clear operational input into maintenance planning, capital planning, and equipment replacement strategies.
Budget, Cost and Business Planning
- Develop and manage the mill operating budget, including labour, power, reagents, consumables, maintenance support, contracts, and services.
- Monitor monthly cost performance and take action on material variances.
- Support forecasting, business planning, cost reviews, and production planning.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities without creating unacceptable risk to safety, recovery, reliability, or long-term plant performance.
- Provide input into capital projects, sustaining capital, and improvement projects affecting the process plant.
Leadership and Team Development
- Lead and develop the Mill Operations, Metallurgy, Assay Lab, and Mill Projects teams.
- Set clear expectations for supervisors, technical staff, and department leaders.
- Build succession depth for key roles in the mill.
- Coach direct reports on planning, execution, communication, field leadership, and accountability.
- Maintain a respectful, practical, and performance-focused work environment.
- Work with HR and site leadership on workforce planning, training, recruitment, and employee development.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Work closely with Mine Operations, Maintenance, Technical Services, Supply Chain, Finance, Environment, Health and Safety, and corporate support teams.
- Provide clear updates to the General Manager and site leadership on risks, performance, priorities, and required decisions.
- Prepare reports and presentations for site and corporate management as required.
- Support audits, technical reviews, incident investigations, improvement plans, and external reviews.
Qualifications
As a people leader, the individual selected will have demonstrated the ability to:
- Present a united front to the organization and lead in an aligned manner
- Role model our values and culture and do so with care and compassion
- Actively listen, engage, and demonstrate the utmost respect, and integrity and work with others in an inclusive way
- Foster diverse perspectives to actively identify new ways of working, have the courage to try new things, learn from mistakes and drive innovation
- Provide coaching and timely feedback to grow their team, expand their capabilities and foster growth
- Recognize and celebrate success and encourage a winning attitude across the organization
In addition, the successful candidate will possess
- Bachelor’s degree in Mineral Processing, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- More than 15 years of mineral processing experience, preferably in gold processing.
- Minimum 5 years of direct operations leadership experience in a processing plant.
- Strong operating knowledge of SAG milling, ball milling, gravity recovery, leaching, CIP, elution/refining, reagent systems, cyanide destruction, and metallurgical accounting.
- Proven experience managing production, recovery, safety, cost, downtime, and plant reliability.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including operations, metallurgy, assay lab, and project personnel.
- Strong understanding of maintenance planning, shutdown execution, and reliability improvement from an operations perspective.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and variance analysis skills.
- Strong communication skills, including clear reporting to senior site leadership.
- Valid driver’s licence.
- Experience in a large-scale gold operation is preferred.
- P.Eng. designation or eligibility is considered an asset.
- Experience with remote or camp-based mining operations is preferred.
- Experience with SAP, DeltaV, Excel, and production reporting systems is preferred.
- Experience supporting capital projects, plant expansions, debottlenecking studies, or process optimization programs is preferred.
- Strong understanding of Ontario mining, safety, and environmental requirements is preferred.
Key Competencies
- Strong field leadership and safety discipline.
- Practical operating judgement under pressure.
- Ability to separate real constraints from noise.
- Strong technical understanding of gold processing.
- Cost awareness without short-term thinking that damages recovery or reliability.
- Ability to hold teams accountable without creating unnecessary friction.
- Strong planning and prioritization.
- Clear communication with crews, supervisors, technical staff, contractors, and senior leadership.
- Ability to develop people and build succession depth.
We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. Coeur Mining does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with the Company. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by Coeur Mining will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.
Inclusion, Equal Opportunity, Accessibility
Coeur Mining is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Indigenous status or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.
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