About the role At New Porgera Ltd (NPL), we are beginning the next phase of our Employee Development (ED) journey. Our mine has come out of Care & Maintenance and is now transitioning towards full production with a team of approximately 3000 employees on site.
The primary purpose of this role is to provide support to the ED Superintendent in mapping and establishing frameworks and training content requirement across NPL, mapped to our overarching business objectives including compliance, licensing, upskilling and career development elements. The implementation and roll out of an online training portal and removal of manual processes will be a key project.
The role requires a strong understanding of learning and development principles combined with experience in designing, implementing and ensuring successful roll-out and refinement of employee development programs to build and train a workforce with the necessary skills and capabilities to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving industry and operation.
Once broader frameworks are implemented, a more detailed departmental and best practice review will occur.
Success will be measured on having a system and framework to define and deliver programs (both online and classroom), ensure compliance to associated Units of Competency or Licenses; a training team with concise roles and suite of programs aligned to legislative and NPL requirements with consistency of training processes (SOPs/Policies/Forms), calendars, standards and competencies across the employee lifecycle suitable for a variety of learning styles.
About you To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate experience of both learning theory and best practice in ED program building and implementation across Mining/Construction/Oil & Gas/heavy industry in heavily regulated environments, ideally with exposure to working in a developing nation combined with relevant qualifications (e.g. Bachelor Human Resources, Cert IV TAE).
This experience will include exposure to inductions; mandatory training; upskilling and qualification building and leadership development programs across frontline operational roles and support functions.
It will require excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills, able to work across both strategic and operational projects, taking internal and external stakeholders on the journey, supporting a culture of continuous learning and employee empowerment whilst supporting, coaching and mentoring the ED team.
In return, the opportunity to impact the development and upskilling of our predominantly local workforce will be significant, combined with a team keen to learn and absorb knowledge. This role is offered on a FIFO basis either from Papua New Guinea or Australia with a 21/14 roster on a 12-month contract.