General Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Processes Manager

Description

Position Summary: Leads and organizes electrical, instrumentation, automation, and process control maintenance activities at a mining plant. Key Highlights: 1. Lead electrical, instrumentation, and control maintenance processes. 2. Ensure maximum system availability and operational reliability. 3. Coordinate with various departments to support continuous improvement. **Location:** Andacollo, Coquimbo, Chile **Employment Type:** Regular full-time **Work Location:** On\-site About **Carmen de Andacollo** Carmen de Andacollo is an open-pit mine producing copper concentrate from the hypogene portion of the deposit. We hold a 90% stake in the mine. The National Mining Corporation (ENAMI) holds the remaining 10%. Most mine personnel reside in the town of Andacollo, located adjacent to the mine, or in nearby cities such as Coquimbo and La Serena. **Job Description** ------------------------- Closing Date: **September 14, 2026\.** At Teck, our purpose is to provide essential resources the world relies on to improve lives, while caring for the people, communities, and land we cherish. Reporting to the Superintendent of Electrical, Instrumentation and Control Processes, the **General Electrical, Instrumentation and Control Processes Manager** will be responsible for leading and organizing electrical, instrumentation, automation, and process control maintenance activities for plant equipment and facilities, ensuring maximum availability and operational reliability of power systems, critical drives—including the SAG mill drive—electrical protection systems, control networks, and supervisory systems, in compliance with the company’s safety, health, environmental, industrial cybersecurity, and operational management standards, policies, and procedures. The position is based at the Carmen de Andacollo operation under a rotating shift schedule of **4x3/5x2 (rotating weekly)**. Our site does not operate a camp; however, shuttle buses are provided from Coquimbo and La Serena. **Key Responsibilities** --------------------------------- * Be a courageous safety leader; comply with and champion safety and environmental rules and procedures. * Oversee scheduled, preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs for plant electrical, instrumentation, automation, and process control systems. * Ensure the availability, reliability, and integrity of power systems, substations, switchgear, transformers, motor control centers (MCC), variable frequency drives (VFD), critical motors, and electrical distribution networks. * Ensure reliability of the primary SAG mill drive, its auxiliary systems, and all components involved in its operation. * Ensure proper operation, coordination, and periodic testing of electrical protection devices, relays, interlock logic, emergency shutdown systems, permissives, critical alarms, and configuration backups. * Manage the maintenance strategy for DCS, PLC, SCADA, control networks, servers, operator workstations, historians, control cabinets, process instrumentation, and critical loops. * Approve and prioritize procurement of materials, critical spare parts, specialist services, and consumables required to maintain operational continuity of assets under responsibility. * Coordinate with Operations, Mechanical Maintenance, Metallurgy, Engineering, Operational Technology, and Procurement regarding intervention requirements, planned shutdown windows, improvements, and integrated solutions. * Propose and lead improvement plans related to obsolescence, standardization, reliability, energy efficiency, reduction of exposure to electrical hazards, and technological modernization of assigned systems. * Maintain the maintenance management system at peak efficiency, ensuring plan quality, criticality assessments, failure history, backlog tracking, critical spares management, root cause analysis (RCA), and action follow-up. * Manage the lifecycle and obsolescence of automation, control, and OT platforms, developing technology renewal roadmaps and risk mitigation strategies. * Identify, assess, and manage electrical, operational continuity, instrumentation, automation, and OT cybersecurity risks, ensuring mitigation and contingency plans are in place. * Lead root cause analysis for significant and recurring failures, ensuring effective implementation and verification of corrective actions and defect elimination measures. * Ensure integration between Operations and Maintenance in defining priorities, intervention windows, risk management, and readiness for critical work. * Supervise and monitor field execution of work to ensure compliance with technical specifications, procedures, work permits, lockout/tagout, zero-energy state, defined timelines, and company standards. * Maintain a technically competent team by identifying training and development needs in power systems, drives, protection, instrumentation, automation, process control, and electrical safety. * Supervise and validate area budget management, as well as forecast adherence. * Maintain orderly and clean work areas (Housekeeping). Know and apply ISO 50\.001 within the area, along with the Energy and Climate Change Policy, contributing to achievement of associated objectives and targets. * Contribute to implementation of action plans established under the Energy Management System to meet objectives and targets. * Maintain a satisfactory, safe, and stimulating work environment, with genuine commitment to personnel and environmental safety and energy efficiency, in accordance with the “Internal Regulations on Order, Hygiene and Safety” and the “Code of Ethics and Conduct”. **Requirements** -------------- * Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Civil Engineering, Electronics, Automation and Control, or a closely related field. * A Master’s degree or postgraduate diploma in maintenance management, reliability, energy, or industrial automation is desirable. * Must hold a valid SEC Class A Authorized Electrical Installer Certificate. * Minimum 10 years of experience managing personnel, leading specialist teams, and resolving technical or operational conflicts. * At least 5 years of experience in planning and executing electrical, instrumentation, and process control maintenance in mining plants, in managerial roles. * Demonstrable experience with power systems, substations, switchgear, transformers, MCCs, VFDs, critical motors, distribution networks, and power quality. * Specific knowledge of SAG mill drives, high-power motors, excitation/drive systems, associated protections, interlocks, critical alarms, and configuration backups. * Knowledge of coordination, parameterization, testing, and event analysis for electrical protection devices, relays, trip systems, selectivity, arc\-flash, and electrical safety. * Knowledge of preventive/predictive maintenance planning, maintenance management systems, RCA analysis, reliability, criticality assessment, and critical spare parts management. * Familiarity with DCS, PLC, SCADA, industrial networks, process instrumentation, frequency converters, OT servers, historians, and industrial cybersecurity applied to mining operations. * Knowledge of Intouch, JD Edwards, SAP, Quadrem, PI System, document management systems, data analytics tools, or equivalent platforms. * Intermediate English proficiency. * Class B driver’s license. * Availability to work on a rotating 4x3 and 5x2 weekly shift schedule. **About Teck** At Teck, we value diversity. Our teams collaborate respectfully and appreciate the unique perspective and contribution of every individual. \*This posting complies with Law No. 21\.015, which promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labor market. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the selection process, please let us know so we can support your participation on an equal basis (Law No. 20\.422\). At Teck, we act in accordance with our principle of Doing the Right Thing and in compliance with applicable laws in our countries of operation to prevent corporate criminal liability. For this reason, our selection processes include questions designed to mitigate risks associated with Law No. 20\.393\. We thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position; however, only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. Your application to this posting constitutes your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information necessary for recruitment purposes. Teck respects the privacy of all candidates and the confidentiality of personal information. *Job Posting: 54498 \| Job Category: Maintenance \| Employment Type: Regular full-time \| Location: Carmen de Andacollo \| Work Location: \#LI \- On\-site*