WHY TACORA?

Tacora Resources Inc. (Tacora) is an innovative iron ore mining and development company focused on the acquisition and revitalization of iron ore assets. Our mining and processing facility, Scully Mine, is located in Wabush, Labrador, Canada. Tacora is servicing high demand customers throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to provide high-grade and high-quality iron ore products.
As a Tacora Resources employee, you will become part of a supportive, performance‐driven, highly engaged, dynamic environment. We focus on creating a work environment where employees can utilize their skills and knowledge while maintaining a team-based, inclusive approach to meeting greater challenges. We maintain straight lines of communication between our operations and management, so we can move collectively toward achieving our goals.
With our core values as the foundation of our Canadian operation, we are passionate about innovation, and we are excited about our future. We are collaborative in our approach to projects and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities – and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable. We place the highest priority on employee safety, protecting the environment, and enhancing the development of the communities in which we operate. At TACORA, we are family.
At TACORA, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and diverse work environment. You will be provided with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skillset working alongside dedicated employees from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
This role will be carried out on 12-hour dayshift, rotation of 7 days on then 7 days off. It will be the responsibility of the incumbent to ensure that sufficient planning and handover work has been done to allow for a smooth operation while they are offsite. This will include detailed handovers, interacting with maintenance, controlling any consumables and parts not controlled by the warehouse. Please note that this is not a fly-in, fly-out position and will be based in Labrador West, NL.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• 5 + years’ experience at supervisor level or higher
• Equipment experiences preferred
• Production rotary and development hammer drill experience preferred

ROLE: REPORTING TO THE MINE MANAGER THE MINE SERVICES & DRILL AND BLAST SUPERVISOR WILL COORDINATE ALL ACTIVITIES THAT THE MINE DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EXCEPT LOAD/HAUL. THIS WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• Reclaim and screening of concentrate
• Driving continuous improvement in the mining environment
• Movement and loadout of MRC tailings
• Oversee tailings work
• Ensure dumps are operating effectively
• Oversee road maintenance
• Oversee blast pattern preparation
• Oversee the contractor doing development mining
• Oversee the crushing of stemming and winter road material
• Oversee HDPE pipe fusion work
• Oversee the cleanout of the crusher when required
• Oversee all drilling operations both production and development
• Assist other departments when requested
• Any other activities that are not load/haul

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in and understand the overall mine plan as developed by the mine planning department and take responsibility to safety deliver results against the plan
• Understand the capabilities of the mine services and driller teams
• Understand the functionality of all the equipment under their responsibility
• Control all operating consumables
• Work with maintenance on equipment maintenance scheduling to meet mine plan requirements
• Work with training to ensure equipment operators and drillers have the required aptitude, skills and knowledge to operate the equipment.
• Work with training to achieve acceptable proficiency for each member of the mine services and driller teams on every piece of equipment in the MS&DB fleet
• Provide people and equipment for blast clearance as per the company procedures on blast days
• Review all mine services and drill/blast related SOP’s periodically to ensure they are current and reflect best practices