geologist

underground miners

environmental technician

Barrick Gold Corporation

Working for Barrick will be an emotional roller coaster. The high wages will justify the nonsense you will have to put up with. Meritocracy is not a term found in the Barrick version of the dictionary. Preference and promotions are largely based on the cliques you may or may not enter into. Choose wisely, because this is how you will receive a raise. There are some good people in management positions, but they are becoming more rare. If you acquire employment with Barrick, read the policies like the gospel. There are too many people running around actively seeking ways to remove others in their way to where they want to be, and upper management tacitly supports this behavior. Trust no one. Read the policies and internalize them. Go to work everyday as if you're entering battle. The HR department is not your friend, they're not there to apply the policies in good faith, but they will look you in the eye and swear they are. They will twist and bend the rules to favor management and you need to be prepared at all times to defend yourself in any situation. The best thing you can do is follow the rules religiously and keep your opinions to yourself. Things will be discussed one way publicly in group settings but applied differently in private amongst those in power. Keep in mind that those in power are not immune from being exposed, but you have to be perfect and follow the rules. Again, I cannot stress enough, know every policy inside and out. Act in good faith and carry out your duties properly and you'll be fine. Trust no one.
There is a One Barrick policy in the works that is essentially consolidating all of the Nevada properties. There is concern that wages are being stifled, in the form of raising the hourly rate but drastically cutting the bonus incentive, despite record production and profits. It remains to be seen, but the lack of a cost of living increase last year was in essence a pay cut equal to inflation. If wages are being targeted it could ignite support from the communities to ask the state legislature to consider revising the tax code for large mines in the state. Washoe and Clark counties are dying to tax gold mines at the proper market value. We are seeing more and more high level management positions given to non-Nevadans.The local people are being phased out. Barrick is in fact a Canadian company extracting Nevada's gold reserves resulting in billions of dollars in profits. The ancient tax breaks that only mines enjoy in this state are based on economic conditions and hardships that no longer exist. The only reason the communities support keeping these provisions in place is because we expect to receive higher than expected wages in return for our support. There could be a sort of Cold War soon to come.

	Documenting and controlling receipt and issuances of all goods, including temporary and permanent construction materials, equipment and small tools, power tools and consumables.
	Monitoring of materials schedule of deliveries for purpose of planning the off loading location / Area.             
	Direct physical inventory report and inspection of all construction arriving materials/equipment.
	Review purchase order receiving documentation including commercial invoice, packing list and bills of landing for completeness and necessary.
	Receiving inspection and final checking of all construction materials and equipment delivery.
	Bag and tag materials for warehouse material requisition.
	When an asset is accidentally broken on at the end of life and it has been verified that it is either impossible or uneconomical to fix, send an asset loss request specifying the cause of assets condition.
	Ensure the accomplishment of physical inventories on a timely basis to ensure valid record is maintained.
	Any construction materials/equipment to be shipped off site, whether a return to supplier materials/equipment for repair or rework, will be transmitted via a properly approved out shipment report.
	Regularly item and insure maintenance/presentation is in accordance with the supplier’s recommendation.
	Store correctly in pre-determined location (Rainstorm, Humidity ,Insects and other creatures)
	Provide current information on the state of material activities.
Monitoring and coordinating to all sub-contractor

I have been in law enforcement and related fields my entire career. I find the work challenging and rewarding. Being bi-lingual, I have traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central and South America. I have managed and supervised law enforcement and corporate security personnel throughout the US and Latin America.

I am an experienced law enforcement and corporate security manager, investigator, and instructor. I am meticulous in my work ethic and responsible in time management. I have extensive training in law enforcement and a graduate of the Drug Enforcement Administration Basic Agent and Supervisor Academies. I am a graduate of the United States Army Military Police Polygraph School and the Reid School for Interview and Interrogation Techniques and the FBI Advanced Polygraph Studies at the University of Virginia.

I am a team player and as a manager take my responsibilities seriously. I am success driven in accomplishing my duties and inspire personnel under my command to always improve their duties and responsibilities and achieve success in their careers.

Overall, my experience with Barrick was good.  The total compensation package was competitive for the industry.  401k contribution was 11% (6% matched, 5% unmatched), PTO that rolled over, and a high dectuctible health insurance plan.  However, the company would match $750 in an HSA, so the annual deductible came out to only $750.

The people I worked with were great.  Highly professional but down to earth and personable.  Leaving the people was the most difficult part of taking another job.  My immediate management was approachable and straightfoward with their expectations.

The only criticism I have is the amount of upper management turnover.  In my 4 years at the company, there were about 3 different CEOs and each had their own vision of what a mining company should be.  The current upper management is South African and doesn't seem to care about the Northern Nevada community.  Hopefully wages stay high without the competition from Newmont.

Typical day at work:
Morning meeting in which we have a safety topic and discuss relevant topics for the day and week.
Review integration issues with Ivara
Manage projects; meetings, requisitions, trainings, project charter, etc
Give support to users with problems they have or with improvements

What I've learned:
I've learned a lot about maintenance reliability, quality tools and project management

Co-workers:
This is the best part of my job, I have an excellent team work, they are all excellent professional that live in a continuous research to do their work better, we share our knowledge and help each other in what we can. My boss have a lot of experience in the area and handover all his knowledge to us, also he is a great coaching

Hardest part:
Keep calm while dealing with stakeholders; in our case process operations and process maintenance

Enjoyable part:
See the results of our effort, see how the KPI's shows our progress.

Assist with the development, execution and maintenance of the NDT systems and programs that shall include dye penetrant, ultrasonic, magnetic particle inspection and other state of the art techniques as applicable for the process plant equipment. •Apply condition monitoring activities of process plant equipment, (Oil sampling,Vibration monitoring, IR thermography, Acoustics monitoring, general equipment inspections, Positive Material Inspection, Etc). •Review and modify processes, procedures, servicing requirements, inspection periodicities associated with the execution of the Condition Monitoring program. •Create and update the associated databases (AP sets, alarm sets, etc.) •Performing field laser alignments and field balancing of industrial equipment. •Experience in machinery acceptance test for rotating equipment. •Support the RCM Program and its continual development; educa

It was a great job in the beginning. Had many problems with management throwing there employees under the bus when  things happened on site. Had a huge environmental spill at north process plant which consisted of about 15 thousand gallons of cyanide over flowing the containment berm for about 7 hrs. I reported the spill after several other people in the area noticed it for at least an hour and did nothing to stop this incident. The person in charge of reportables decided to file a 200 gallon report of the incident. I cannot work for a company who has management lie about how the company was such a great steward of the environment. This not the first time mining companies pollute the environment. It will continue as long as people choose money over doing right thing. I notified the state EPA, but nothing happened to company.

Productive and good job experience and learning in the mining business. Stayed busy throughout the shifts with job duties and housekeeping. Learned how to work in the process plant at the roaster and working through the circuits of the process chain. Enjoyed the experience of learning this type of work and there was a great group of people to work with. started out in 2007 and transferred to Bald Mountain site in 2009 and started working in the warehouse as a tech. Job duties loading and off loading of trucks and receiving and shipping procedures, putting away stock and direct charge parts, pulling parts orders for departments when needed. then worked my way up into the Inventory Control position in 2013.

The first job was core logging/prepping. Once that's done, any structural interpretations, QAQC data, and/or reconcilliation work is done. Other jobs include underground mapping and sampling, wire framing, and block modelling. My management came from the senior geologist. Most of my co workers had less years experience than me, but are generally willing to work outside the scope of their titles. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the one or two bullies in the immediate work space. The most enjoyable part of the job is doing structural interpretations in areas that not many people have previously looked at or analysed and used these interpretations for target generation

You might get to work on or around some of the largest machines on the planet. This is a very dangerous place to work. During the 29 years I was there 19 people were killed in accidents on Goldstrike. Some of them were my friends. Maintainance, operations, and production people work 12 hour days and nights. Time starts when you get on site and ends when you get on the bus home. The bus ride to the mine takes one hour each way. Plan on being gone from 15 hours. A typical shift rotation starts with four night shifts. Then 3 days off. Three day shifts then one day off. then three night shifts and 3 days off. Then four day shifts followed by long change-7days off. Then it starts all over again. This is not a job for timid, weak willed people. Just the place for a fearless fool like me.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Geologist 3 salaries reported	$102,167 per year
Underground miners 1 salary reported	$37.01 per hour
Environmental technician 1 salary reported	$34.42 per hour

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