Mining Operations Manager
industrial_energy_operations › Mining Operations · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages daily mine site operations, overseeing extraction, hauling, and processing activities across multiple crews and shifts.
Median pay · United States · annual
$120,351 USD
▲ +40.6% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Manages daily mine site operations, overseeing extraction, hauling, and processing activities across multiple crews and shifts. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Manage daily operations across multiple crews or a full section, owning the section's production schedule, operating budget, and equipment fleet
- Evaluate operational trends across drilling, excavation, and haulage to diagnose recurring bottlenecks and set improvement plans
- Lead the field maintenance and inspection program, ensuring preventive maintenance and equipment availability targets are met across the section
- Ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards, investigating incidents and closing out corrective actions
- Manage professional and technical staff, including junior supervisors, developing crews and staffing the operation to plan
- Knowledge applied
- Applies broad operational and equipment knowledge to manage a full section, evaluating diverse issues and trends to keep production, cost, and availability on plan.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses diverse operational issues, evaluating performance trends across crews to identify root causes and implement improvements.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads functional teams and interfaces with engineering, safety, and maintenance leads; represents the section internally.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing professionals and operating budgets in a mining environment.
Skills at this level
- Heavy equipment operation and maintenance
- — Directs and evaluates the operation and maintenance of heavy mining equipment — drills, loaders, scoops, shovels, and conveyors — including hydraulics, drives, and preventive maintenance scheduling.
- Mechanical/electrical troubleshooting
- — Diagnoses and resolves defects in mining equipment — motors, sheaves, drives, line-bore and welding repairs — to restore field availability with minimum downtime.
- Production planning and optimization
- — Plans and optimizes open-pit and underground production, sequencing drilling, blasting, excavation, and haulage against schedule, cost, and grade targets.
- Safety and environmental compliance
- — Enforces mining safety and environmental regulations on the face, investigates incidents, and drives corrective actions to keep operations compliant.
- Mine ventilation, drainage and rehabilitation
- — Plans and implements ventilation, air-quality management, drainage, and site rehabilitation as part of safe and lawful mining operations.
- Leadership and people management
- — Supervises crews, mentors technicians, and manages large field workforces of 50–60+ personnel across shifts and sites.
- Technical documentation and software literacy
- — Reads and interprets technical SOPs and production spreadsheets, and uses fleet monitoring and mining software to track and analyze operational performance.
- Geology and mining techniques
- — Applies knowledge of geology and extraction methods to inform mining plans, ground control, and production decisions in the field.
- Blasting and drilling operations
- — Oversees drilling and blasting programs across specialized crews, coordinating blast design, sequencing, and safety controls.
- P&L and financial management
- — Manages P&L performance, operating budgets, and regional business operations for mining sites, allocating cost across fleets and projects.
- Stakeholder and regulatory engagement
- — Engages regulators, government bodies, contractors, and communities on permitting, compliance, and major operational decisions.
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