Head Of Mining Operations

RHI MAGNESITA

The location of the role is in: Eskişehir

Imagine being part of a team where your voice matters, your ideas shape real outcomes, and every day brings a new challenge to solve.

If you’re curious, motivated, and ready to grow your career in a dynamic global environment — this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

We are looking for a continuity and compliance of mining operations a Head of Mining Operations to act as the single operational and regulatory owner vis a vis authorities, auditors, and internal stakeholders.

This role has fully accountable for the safe, compliant, and cost-effective operation of all mining activities in Eskişehir, including exploration, extraction, beneficiation related mining interfaces, regulatory compliance, and third-party coordination.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure full compliance with legal and internal HSE rules, acting as site level owner for safe mining execution
• Own implementation and follow up of mine stability audits, geotechnical action plans, and risk mitigation measures
• Plan, execute, and control daily mining activities (open pit), ensuring delivery of raw material in line with plant demand and quality requirements as defined with Operations and Geology
• Ensure alignment between mining output, downstream beneficiation capacity constraints, and downstream operations
• Manage mining contractors and service providers, including cost, performance, and safety compliance
• Act as primary interface to authorities for all mining related matters
• Own mining licenses, permits, GSM, operating activity reports, royalty declarations, and statutory submissions
• Own mining cost structure, unit cost drivers, and variance explanations together with Finance
• Provide validated inputs for standard costing and SAP master data affecting mining
• Ensure audit ready documentation
• Own all mining related software, licenses, access rights, and data continuity
• Lead and develop the mining team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in mining operations, preferably open pit industrial minerals
• Strong knowledge of mining licenses, royalties, and regulatory bodies and geotechnical risk and stability management
• Knowledge of cost control & audit environments
• Knowledge of contractor and stakeholder management
• Digital literacy (mine planning tools, SAP interfaces, reporting systems)
• Strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills
• Fluent/Proficient in English and Turkish

Why should you work for RHI Magnesita?

You will perform in a customer focused environment. We live innovation and appreciate an open and pragmatic way of working. From our leaders we expect to drive our further transformation, to engage our people and to give direction. RHI Magnesita is a company where you can be yourself and where not only your resume and experience, but also your personality counts. We aim for global consistency in compensation policies but also consider local common practices. RHI Magnesita is committed to support its employees through various means to enable the best possible performance.

We offer

• RHIM Academy for your ongoing learning & development, incl. full LinkedIn Learning catalogue
• Empowerment to take responsibility and forge your own career success
• Opportunities to learn, lead, and build something new with colleagues from around the world

Sounds like you?

At RHI Magnesita everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply. We evaluate applications based on required qualifications and regardless of gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status. At RHI Magnesita we appreciate the value of diverse teams. We kindly ask you to submit your application online and in English. Due to data privacy reasons, applications via e-mail cannot be taken into consideration.

About RHI Magnesita

We are the acknowledged technology leader in the refractory industry. Our company is defined by people. We are committed to diversity and know that multiple approaches, perspectives and backgrounds fuel creativity and innovation. It is our aspiration to build a workplace culture where everyone feels valued, engages, and can enjoy a truly inclusive environment and the diverse voices of our employees are heard. We foster a collaborative culture that cherishes ideas and determination to add value for our customers. Our leadership style encourages open-mindedness, reliability, pragmatism, and innovation.