Senior Site Supervisor – Open Cut – Orica

📍 Location: Bulyanhulu, Tanzania
🏢 Company: Orica
📅 Posted on: 15th October 2025
🕒 Job Type: Full-Time
🎓 Qualification: Degree/Diploma in Mining Engineering (Registered with Tanzania Engineers Registration Board)
💼 Experience: 8–12 years in mining, including 5+ years underground

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Role Overview

The Senior Site Supervisor – Open Cut leads operations at Orica’s Bulyanhulu site, ensuring safety, efficiency, regulatory compliance, and service excellence. The role involves managing plant and underground equipment, product quality control, operational planning, team leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.

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Key Responsibilities

• Oversee site operations, ensuring contractual KPIs are met.
• Provide analytical support for continuous improvement to reduce operational costs.
• Participate in short-, medium-, and long-term site planning.
• Perform quarterly product forecast analysis based on 3-month customer forecasts.
• Manage Orica charging equipment per recommended standards.
• Conduct monthly customer meetings to align on KPIs.
• Complete inventory counts, reconciliations, safety meetings, and mandatory reports.
• Audit and inspect site operations to ensure regulatory compliance and safety.
• Implement and track employee training plans; ensure mandatory training is completed.
• Maintain housekeeping, record-keeping, and preventive maintenance programs.
• Assist in preparing budgets, staffing plans, equipment requirements, and resource models.
• Optimize site inventories to minimize stock and improve profitability.
• Schedule daily activities, manage raw material ordering, and preventive maintenance.
• Communicate and develop action plans with the Sprint Lead for operational issues.
• Coordinate and manage all external regulatory audits and inspections.

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Qualifications & Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in Mining Engineering.
• Registered with the Tanzania Engineers Registration Board.
• 8–12 years of mining experience, including 5+ years underground.
• Strong leadership, planning, and operational management skills.
• Experience in inventory management, budgeting, and regulatory compliance.

Senior Site Supervisor – Open Cut at Orica

Senior Site Supervisor – Open Cut

Orica 

Bulyanhulu – Tanzania

At Orica, we’re committed to empowering individuals to grow, lead, and make a meaningful impact. As a Senior Site Supervisor – Underground & Plant based at Bulyanhulu, you’ll be at the heart of operational excellence, safety, and team leadership.

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead Orica teams on-site, manage plant and Underground equipment, Product Quality Control and ensure seamless service delivery aligned with our Service Level Agreements, corporate standards, and regulatory requirements. Your leadership will be key in driving performance, safety, and employee engagement.

Shape your future and help shape others’ through knowledge-sharing, development, and collaboration. Be part of a team that lives Orica’s values and makes a difference every day

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What you will be doing

Oversee Orica operations at Bulyanhulu site, managing contractual KPIs

Provides analytical/decision support to Sprint Lead on continuous improvement plan for decreasing operational costs.

Participates in the short, medium, and long-term planning activities of the site.

Perform Quarterly product forecast Accuracy based on the 3 months customer forecast.

Ensure Orica Charging Equipment’s are managed as per Orica recommended Standard

Perform Monthly Customer meeting to ensure alignment on contractual KPIs

Completes mandatory monthly inventory counts and reconciliations, safety meetings, annual Letter of Assurance and ensures all actions assigned to the Site are completed required databases.

Audits and inspects site operations to ensure regulatory requirements are met and are performed safely in accordance with company policies.Manage Employees training plan, ensures mandatory training of all employees is completed and documented

Ensures that good housekeeping, record keeping, and preventative maintenance programs are in place.

Assists in preparation of fixed cost budgets, capital expenditures, staffing, equipment requirements, and an updated Resource Model.

Analyses site inventories to minimize product quantities and improve site profitability through stock rotation and management.

Schedules daily activities of employees to meet customer requirements and ensure proper management of site including raw material ordering, and preventative maintenance.

Communicates and develops/implements action plan to address any operational issues with Sprint Lead.

Effectively communicates and manages all outside regulatory agency audits/inspections and implement necessary action plans as required.

What you will bring

Degree/Diploma in Mining Engineering, registered under Tanzania Engineers Registration Board

Minimum 8- 12 years of Mining experience, with 5+ years of underground experience.

Proven ability to lead a team, including building a collaborative approach in the development of the direction and operations of the workstream.

Strong understanding of Explosives Industry and Blasting overall

Proven influencer, able to manage processes across multiple stakeholder groups.

Experience in implementing process improvement initiatives would be desirable.

Demonstrated skills associated with building strong vendor &/or customer relationships.

Valid Tanzanian Driving License

Demonstrates courage, models resilience and flexibility

Possess unquestioned reputation for integrity, ethics, personal values and solid character

Builds the trust of others

Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills

Strong attention to detail, with a high level of accuracy, integrity & accountability

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High level decision making & problem solving skills

Self-motivated, well organised and logical, with ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Strong people management and influencing skills

We offer:

What we offer

As part of a truly global company, you will have the ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture. We foster relationships and learning through connected global and local teams, promote flexible and diverse career paths and support the development of your knowledge and skills.

You will be paid a competitive salary, learn from talented individuals across multiple disciplines and be able to thrive in a safe workplace within a collaborative culture. Ignite your career at a place where your distinct potential can find its home.

We respect and value all

Orica promotes and fosters a culture of inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment everywhere we operate. We treat our people and applicants with fairness, dignity, and respect, getting the best of everyone’s contributions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, nationality, age, military or veteran, marital or disability status.

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