Chief Operating Officer, Mining Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Mining Operations · E4 — E4 — Senior Vice President · Executive
Top executive accountable for all mining production, safety, and operational performance across the organization's mine sites.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Top executive accountable for all mining production, safety, and operational performance across the organization's mine sites. At the Senior Vice President (E4) level, the role owns multiple divisions, enterprise strategy and external stakeholders, and drives cross-division / enterprise. Leads division leaders.
What this level does
- Oversee large mining operations portfolios spanning multiple regions and strategic areas (production, safety, environmental stewardship, capital projects) with high autonomy and corporate-level impact
- Participate in enterprise strategic development — reserve strategy, portfolio composition, and the long-run operating direction of the company's producing assets — alongside the CEO and executive committee
- Engage regularly with the board, CEO and industry leaders on the operational risk, safety performance and strategic trajectory of the mining portfolio
- Set cross-business operating standards for safety, environmental sustainability and production efficiency that apply company-wide, integrating operations strategy with corporate objectives
- Bear ultimate accountability for the operational and safety outcomes of the mining portfolio to the board and external markets
- Knowledge applied
- Participates in enterprise strategic development for the company's producing mining portfolio, applying broad operational, safety and sustainability judgment across multiple regions and strategic areas. Shares the E3 base of corporate operations knowledge; the difference is portfolio breadth and the enterprise risk borne, not a categorically different knowledge domain.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Exercises high autonomy over corporate-impact decisions spanning the full operated portfolio; problems are broadest in scope and integrate operations with overall corporate strategy.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Engages the board, CEO and industry leaders regularly on portfolio operational risk, safety and strategic direction — the dimension that most distinguishes this rung from E3.
- Typical experience
- 20+ years of extensive corporate strategy and mining leadership experience.
Skills at this level
- Mining Operations Command
- — Directs the safe and efficient extraction of minerals or resources across mine sites, governing production schedules, extraction techniques and workflow optimization to meet committed output targets.
- Mine Safety Governance
- — Owns the mining safety program at portfolio scale — enforcing safety regulations, PPE standards and emergency procedures — and bears executive accountability for the safety outcomes of underground and surface operations.
- Environmental Compliance Leadership
- — Sets and governs the operations' environmental compliance and sustainability posture, integrating regulatory obligations and closure requirements into production planning across producing mines.
- Ore Control and Metal Accounting Oversight
- — Governs ore control and metal-accounting discipline across sites so that extracted grade and recovery reconcile against plan, protecting the operational P&L of the mining portfolio.
- Mine Fleet and Capital Strategy
- — Sets deployment, renewal and capital-allocation strategy for heavy mining equipment (haul trucks, loaders, drills, excavators, continuous mining machines) to sustain throughput within budget across the operated fleet.
- Multi-Site Production Portfolio Management
- — Integrates production plans, targets and costs across multiple mines or regions, arbitrating throughput, safety and capital trade-offs to optimize the aggregate operating result.
- Geomechanical Risk Translation
- — Translates complex geomechanical and resource information into practical operating direction for mine planning, design, risk management and closure at the portfolio level.
- Mining Executive Stakeholder Engagement
- — Represents mining operations to boards, regulators, communities, major customers and industry bodies, negotiating critical matters and participating in enterprise strategy formation.
- Operational Reporting and Performance Governance
- — Governs monthly operational and technical reporting from mine departments, converting production, safety and cost signals into corrective actions and executive-level accountability.
- Mining Workforce Leadership
- — Builds and leads senior operations leadership through Directors and VPs, cascading standards for skill development, safety adherence and production discipline across mining personnel.
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