Senior Control Systems Applications Specialist - Perth, Australia - Newmont Inc.

Description

Workplace Type: Hybrid - Remote/Onsite

Newmont is the world's leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead. The Company's world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favorable mining jurisdictions in North America, South America, Australia and Africa. Newmont is the only gold producer listed in the S&P 500 Index and is widely recognized for its principled environmental, social and governance practices. The Company is an industry leader in value creation, supported by robust safety standards, superior execution and technical proficiency. Newmont was founded in 1921 and has been publicly traded since 1925.

The expected salary range for this role is CAD $ 152, ,800 . This range is tied to the British Columbia market for jobs performed in British Columbia. The salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, training, and/or experience. The salary offer will not be based on a candidate's pay history at other jobs, and by law, Newmont will not seek information about pay history, and candidates should not share such information with Newmont.

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The Senior Control System Applications Specialist is a member of the global Fixed Plant Control Systems (FPC) team, and is responsible for the availability, utilisation and integrity of systems and data within the process control platform application suite. The incumbent provides technical expertise and an escalation point for the global fixed plant control systems team for all matters related to these applications. The applications include Alarm Sentinel (alarm monitoring), Plant ESP (control loop monitoring), CMS (change management system), P2 Production Suite (APLUS, Shiftlog and Case Management) and various other applications that integrate to the Newmont time-series data historian, AVEVA PI System.

Your role will consist of :

Here is a snapshot of what your day to day will look like:

• Provide Technical Support to the global fixed plant control systems team with application fault finding, reporting, IT support requests and defect elimination to prevent reoccurrence
• Monitor applications and interfaces through to the PI system, validate data quality and escalate to appropriate owner when issues are identified
• Support generation of daily, weekly and monthly reports from the application data suite
• Plan, schedule and execute minor and major application upgrades with vendors
• Provide Functional Processing OT application database administration and ownership
• Continuously develop and improve the maturity of the process control platform applications to accelerate value delivery
• Represent FPC, collaborate with IT and participate in architecture/infrastructure design and implementation of relevant virtualised environments
• Participation in the global fixed plant control systems community of practice

Your training, skills, and experience checklist:

• Minimum 10 years' experience in development and support of operational technology software applications
• Demonstrated understanding of best practice of graphical user interface design and development
• Demonstrated experience in a range of programming languages and systems, particularly C#, Python and SQL
• Demonstrated experience with web programming languages such as AngularJS and libraries
• Experience with AVEVA/OsiSoft applications (including associated SDK's)
• Experience working within a control systems function highly desired but not essential
• An understanding of change management processes is preferred but not essential
• Experience in gold processing preferred but not essential
• Experience working in other regions and in multiple languages preferred but not essential
• Strong software troubleshooting abilities in complex integrated solutions across multiple database query and programming languages
• Strong understanding of dependent IT principles, eg. Firewalls, active directory, group policy and virtualization
• Capable of adapting to and effectively implementing change
• Assertive, self-motivated and able to build collaborative and productive professional relationships across technical services groups, operational sites and regions.
• Advanced general computer competency and experienced in the use of common productivity applications including the MS office suite and Visual Basic extensions.

Working Conditions

• The role is global in nature, encompassing work at various sites as well as remote work from home. It demands significant flexibility in roster arrangements to meet the diverse business needs across multiple site locations.
• Exceptional candidates from North and South America's outside of British Columbia may be considered.

Newmont also offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package to support the physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing of employees. This role will be eligible for various benefits, including: medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health care spending account; life, accidental death and dismemberment, and critical illness insurance; short-term and long-term disability; DC pension; employee assistance program (EAP); wellbeing reimbursement program; tuition reimbursement; and paid time off. All bonuses and benefits are subject to the applicable eligibility and program/plan terms, and may be modified or terminated at Newmont's sole discretion.

We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you