Description

Assists with the tailings, crushed leach and water team with data collection and monitoring activities, maintenance and surveillance items, engineering projects, and support daily operations at an assigned site.

• Performs field work and collects monitoring data.
• Manages data and assists with problem-solving that may require basic theories and engineering fundamentals.
• Utilizes computer program to organize data, document field activities and develop reports.
• Manage workflows for activities listed in the Operations, Maintenance and Surveillance Manual
• Manages routine QA/QC activities for engineering projects
• Assists with specification and procedure development and implementation
• Performs evaluation and troubleshooting of installed instruments and develops monitoring equipment specification and calibration
• Organizes and maintains accurate and current project documentation
• Oversees with survey and GPS mapping
• Oversees survey layout and field review of tailings engineering projects
• Organize and provide training on the operation and maintenance of equipment
• Perform other duties as requested.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Three (3) years of experience in an engineering or technical area relevant to the assignment or in the mining industry
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Skilled in following safety practices and recognizing hazards
• Skilled in safely using, maintaining, and repairing specialized equipment
• Ability to develop and maintain awareness of occupational hazards and safety precautions

Preferred Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• Experience working in the mining or construction industry
• Aptitude for computers and/or electronics
• Advanced knowledge of specialized equipment, methods and techniques appropriate to assignment, including GIS/GPS mapping techniques and drone surveying
• Experience in installation of water level measurement equipment for data collection
• Experience in safely deploying, maintaining and repairing specialized equipment for the purpose of tailings dam monitoring
• Experience and proficiency in data validation and troubleshooting information from monitoring wells, piezometers, inclinometers and GPS

Criteria/Conditions:

• This is a safety sensitive role
• Ability to understand and apply verbal and written work and safety-related instructions and procedures given in English
• Ability to communicate in English with respect to job assignments, job procedures, and applicable safety standards
• Must be able to work in a potentially stressful environment
• Work is in a mine or manufacturing plant setting, which may include exposure to extremes in temperature and humidity, moving mechanical parts, risk of electrical shock, toxic chemicals, explosives, fumes or airborne particles
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, demonstrate manual dexterity, climb stairs and ladders, work on elevated platforms, talk, hear and see
• Occasionally may be required to lift moderately heavy objects up to fifty (50) pounds during the course of the workday
• Personal protective equipment is required when performing work in a mine, outdoor, manufacturing or plant environment, including hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, and as needed, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, protective clothing, gloves and any other protective equipment as required.
• Freeport-McMoRan promotes a drug/alcohol-free work environment through the use of mandatory pre-employment drug testing and on-going random drug testing as allowed by applicable state laws