Chief Mining Officer
industrial_energy_operations › Mining Engineering · E3 — E3 — Vice President · Executive
Executive leader accountable for the entire organization's mine planning and ore extraction strategy across all operating sites.
Median pay · United States · annual
$352,063 USD
▲ +107.8% vs E1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Executive leader accountable for the entire organization's mine planning and ore extraction strategy across all operating sites. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.
What this level does
- Lead a large mining division or regional business through senior executives, bearing enterprise-level risk on the mining portfolio's safety, reserves realization, and economic performance.
- Shape corporate mining strategy for large units — which deposits to develop, in what sequence, under what feasibility economics — as a major strategic role influencing the enterprise's asset base.
- Represent the enterprise externally on mining matters (regulators, major partners, industry bodies) and participate in setting the strategy that governs the region's or division's extraction program.
- Govern the risk envelope across the portfolio's pit optimization, drilling and blasting, and ore-blending decisions, ensuring enterprise-level safety and environmental exposure is understood and controlled.
- Build the senior-executive mining leadership layer and the governance that keeps division-wide engineering practice aligned to corporate goals.
- Knowledge applied
- Shapes corporate mining strategy for large units/functions; enterprise-level knowledge of the portfolio's deposits, feasibility economics, and extraction program.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses enterprise-level mining risk with critical strategic impact across a large division or regional business.
- Collaboration & interaction
- External representation (regulators, partners, industry) and participation in enterprise strategy; leads through senior executives.
- Typical experience
- 15–20+ yrs with enterprise-impact experience. Mining-specific EVP evidence not present in payload; scale inferred.
Skills at this level
- Mine Planning and Development Sequencing
- — Determines the means of safely and efficiently mining deposits, sequencing development and operations, blending ore, and optimizing pit designs to bring extraction plans to life. Evidenced at Principal/technical-lead level and, at the executive tier, owned as function/portfolio strategy.
- Mine Feasibility and Economic Analysis
- — Conducts surveys of ore, mineral, or coal deposits and prepares pre-feasibility and feasibility technical reports with economic analysis to decide whether and how a potential mining operation is economically and environmentally viable — the basis for executive capital-commitment decisions.
- Drilling and Blasting Design
- — Advises on the appropriate drilling and blasting approaches for extracting deposits safely and efficiently; a technical activity that executives set standards and approval gates over.
- Mine Safety and Operations Oversight
- — Oversees mine planning, operations, and safety to ensure efficient resource extraction while optimizing productivity; scaled from site oversight at E1 to portfolio-level safety-risk accountability at higher rungs.
- Pit Optimization and Ore Blending
- — Optimizes pit designs and blends ore across the extraction program to maximize economic recovery — a cross-asset technical trade-off that becomes a division/portfolio strategic decision at the executive tier.
- Enterprise Mining Portfolio Governance
- — Governs the aggregate safety, reserve-realization, and economic-viability risk of the enterprise's mining assets, and directs which deposits are developed in what sequence under what feasibility economics — extrapolated from the Principal 'shapes long-term technical strategy across the engineering organization' boundary into corporate governance.
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