Ancillary Operator

Ready to pursue your professional journey with Northern Star? As an ASX 50 global-scale gold miner, we have sizeable operations in Western Australia and Alaska. With unparalleled pathways for advancement and avenues for personal growth, we stand as Australia’s premier gold employer. Your journey starts here.

At Northern Star, we live by our STARR Core Values of Safety, Teamwork, Accountability, Respect and Results. These Values are not just words on paper; they are the cornerstone of our Company culture and guide everything we do. You will play a pivotal role in upholding these Values and contributing to our collective success.

We have an enticing Ancillary Operator position awaiting you at the iconic KCGM Super Pit that boasts a +10-year mine life. Promising a long term and fulfilling future, your journey begins in a dynamic work environment at our Open Pit Mine on a family friendly residential 7:7 roster.

Here’s what awaits you:

• Being directed by Operators to ensure benches are maintained to the correct levels with good housekeeping to ensure effective mining operations.
• Ensuring dumps are maintained at correct Relative Level (RL), running surfaces (roads) on dumps and pit floors are smooth and level with all dips filled and protrusions ripped, to meet operating standards.
• Responsible for minimising dilution by not mixing waste and ore, digging ore blocks in the correct direction and facing up ore blocks (front and back) at the correct angles.
• Liaising with the Shovel Operator how the bench will progress and be removed, identifying hazards and opportunities before they occur to maximise the efforts of all shovel and truck movements.
• Using the digging plan map to remove product to the plan, and mark-up all voids as either black/white or red/white areas by the end of each day.
• Operating the digger to “pull batters” and load out batter material, this ensure walls are safe and no loose material is likely to fall, also reclaim the Pit edge as much as possible to ensure all good grade product can be collected.
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To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

Experience:  A minimum of five (5) years operator of various large production mining machinery in an Open Pit or Quarry environment, as well as two (2) years, all-round experience in heavy mining machinery including but not limited to loaders excavators, diggers, water and haul trucks. It is essential that you reside in the Goldfields Region and have a strong understanding on mining sequence process and activities as well as good computer literacy. Dispatching experience is not essential but desirable.

Qualifications: A Current Unencumbered ‘C’ Class Drivers Licence. Current MR Drivers Licence and Quarry Manager Certificate not essential but desirable.  

Passion for Growth:  A strong desire to be a part of a team contributing to Northern Star’s dynamic work environment.

Discover the perks of working at Northern Star…

• Company subsidised GU Health Insurance.
• Short-term incentive bonus program.
• Employee Share Plan programs.
• Gold standard parental leave policy.
• GoldSTARR rewards program - cash savings for everyday expenses.
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) that includes free, confidential counselling and wellbeing services.
• Salary continuance (income protection) insurance from commencement.
• Salary sacrificing benefits, including novated leasing and remote area living benefit options.

Eligibility:
Candidates must meet our pre-employment criteria which includes a medical, drug and alcohol screening, relevant right to work and valid Australian national police clearance.    
Northern Star is an equal opportunity employer committed to achieving a diverse and inclusive workforce.  We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Apply now to join the Northern Star team!