Senior Electrical Engineer

Join Our Growing Team!

Discovery Kidd has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer.

A growing North America Precious Metals Company, Discovery is committed to combining high-quality gold producing assets in Canada with the world’s largest undeveloped silver deposit in Mexico.

Discovery has an experienced team, dedicated to being a highly profitable producer of gold and silver that generates superior returns, delivers substantial social-economic benefits and meets the highest environmental standards.

The Position

Reporting to the Maintenance & Projects Engineer Superintendent, the primary duties of this position is to provide electrical engineering support to the production and maintenance groups to ensure production can achieve their committed tonnage for the year in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. This can be done directly through field engineering support or indirectly through process or reliability improvement projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in audits when requested, especially if they relate to GHG & energy reduction;
• Report on a monthly basis the energy performance of the plant electrical and natural gas consumption and the mobile equipment fleet, gasoline consumption;
• Responsible for producing annual energy budget for electricity and natural gas, reconciliation of the budget and explaining variances;
• Provide recommendations for energy savings opportunities and support / assist energy efficiency officer on all cost reduction savings initiatives;
• Support HSEC activities for new equipment installations and modifications;
• Maintain critical controls on key environmental systems;
• Provide technical support to both operations and maintenance through effective use of work order system;
• provide technical support to maintain equipment availability targets and operational process requirements;
• Identify plant deficiencies and seek technical support where required;
• Provide cost management and reduction;
• Provide technical training and coaching for trades, operations and tech support resources as required;
• Provide and maintain programming standard for the site;
• Identify critical spares requirements, service contracts and obsolescence issues;
• Utilize professional &technical specialist services as required to support efficient problem investigation and resolution;
• Provide energy management-NIERP reporting & Support safety programs such as PASS.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

The ideal Candidate will have:

• Professional Engineering degree or at minimum, a relevant technical diploma from a recognized Canadian college (Automation, Instrumentation, Electrical or Mining);
• Previous experience working in an underground mine setting/environment;
• Knowledge of engineering standards (IEEE,NEC,NESC,ANSI,IEC) environmental regulations, guides and codes;
• Effective verbal and written communication skill & formidable organizational and detail orientation skills;
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Office);
• Basic skills in performing computer-based design using AutoCAD & effective project management skills;
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively work within multi-disciplinary teams.
  
  

Compensation And Benefits

Competitive total compensation package including:

• Health, Dental, Life, AD&D, Disability, Healthcare and Wellness Spending Accounts, Virtual Care and Employee and Family Assistance Program;
• Company contributions and matching into a Defined Contribution Pension Plan; and
• Annual compensation of CAD$104,000 to CAD$130,000.
  
  

Additional Information

This posting is for an existing vacancy at Discovery’s Kidd Operations.

We thank all candidates in advance. Please note, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Discovery welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including, but not limited to women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities (racialized), aboriginal (Indigenous) persons and persons of any gender identity and sexual orientation. Discovery is committed to a positive, supportive, and inclusive environment.

Please note that we use artificial intelligence tools to screen applications and assess qualifications and selected candidates will be contacted by a human for an interview.