Portal Mines - Underground Dispatcher

Position Description:

Would you like to have a career with a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic mining company? We have an exciting opportunity for you!

Our people division is growing, and we are looking for a Portal Mines Dispatch Technician with our Underground Maintenance department. The successful candidate is responsible for monitoring, collecting, and entering dispatch data. Other responsibilities will consist of communicating out varied broadcast alerts, incident and emergency communication facilitation and perform other duties as assigned.

At Nevada Gold Mines, our vision is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people. We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.

Responsibilities:

• Attend and contribute to the safety meetings by identifying safety issues, recommend and actively contributing to resolve these issues on site.
• Maintain knowledge of Mine Emergency procedures and be prepared to follow them in the event of an emergency at the mine and during regular emergency exercises.
• Monitor and enter into PITRAM, the following underground activities:
• Assignment of underground personnel to equipment.
• Recording and tracking movements of all personnel underground.
• (high/low grade, windrow, and waste) by loaders and trucks (location and destination).
• All equipment downtime and the nature of that downtime.
• All development drill holes and bolts and their location.
• All development/production rounds fired and their location.
• All production drill and their location.
• The status of each active location as it changes.

• Maintain integrity of the PITRAM database.
• Ensure any errors are corrected.
• Run and distribute PITRAM daily reports each day. Produce other reports as required.
• The duties and responsibilities listed above are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.
• Monitor radio communications via the console.
• Broadcast alerts as needed.
• Monitor weather alerts/warnings.

Qualifications:

• Experience with computers and phones are required.
• General knowledge of software applications like Excel, Word and Outlook are preferred.
• Must be able to multi-task, and handle high radio, phone, and foot traffic.
• Must be able to communicate well.
• Must be able to handle being in an office for the entirety of the shift.
• Must be a team player.
• Proven safety record required.