Date: 17 Sept 2026
Location: Cotabambas, PE, 3261
Company: Orica
About Orica
About the role
The primary purpose of the Senior Site Supervisor Open Cut is to oversee safe, efficient blasting and charging operations at open-cut mine sites while driving continuous improvement and ensuring full regulatory compliance across all activities.
This role supervises onsite teams and equipment in accordance with service level agreements and corporate standards, implementing advanced blast optimization techniques, managing complex stakeholder relationships, and developing personnel to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
What you will be doing
People Development and Safety
- Ensures all employees complete mandatory training, with proper documentation maintained
- Manages employee training plans and documents all training activities
- Develops, motivates, and supervises employees to achieve their full potential while maintaining safe customer service standards
- Maintains strong housekeeping, record keeping, and preventative maintenance programs
- Ensures non-compliances are promptly reported for investigation and resolution
Operational Excellence and Compliance
- Provides analytical and decision support to the area manager to drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at reducing operational costs
- Participates in short, medium and long-term planning activities for the site
- Completes mandatory monthly inventory counts and reconciliations, conducts safety meetings, and prepares the annual Letter of Assurance, ensuring all assigned actions are completed within required databases
- Audits and inspects site operations to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and company safety policies
- Assists in the preparation of fixed cost budgets, capital expenditures, staffing, equipment requirements, and keeps the resource model updated
- Analyses site inventories to minimise product quantities and improve site profitability through stock rotatio
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