geologist

mining engineer

intern

electrical supervisor

superintendent

Nevada Gold Mines

Since the NGM joint venture, employee treatment has spiraled downward. I was hired prior to the JV, and really enjoyed my work. We all were treated extraordinarily well. Anytime you needed management they were there to help. After the JV, NGM the relationship between employees and management eroded. Now if you don't give over 100% every day the company considers you to be substandard. They demand the ability to know everything and be capable of any tasks without any assistance. If you need help, you are viewed as substandard. They stopped promoting salaried employees at the mine I am at, preferring to force them to accomplish duties of senior level management without promotion or a raise. When it comes time for the annual reviews, management judges you on your ability to do senior level work, but does not compensate your efforts commensurate to senior pay or give a promotion. Because of the push to overperform, the working environment has become toxic. We used to be a team, now everyone is out to backstab their coworkers and throw each other under the bus when they can't meet managment expectations. NGM also claims many benefits that don't exist. Asking for time off? Near impossible. At a whim, management refuses use of PTO without any clear reason. NGM embodies the "do more with less" mentality, meaning that hiring and retaining people is not a priority. Management would rather work people to their bones than hire more workers. Need something to do your job more effectively? Nope. Wanting to transfer to another mine? Also near impossible. If they don't want you to leave your mine, they go through back channels to block your career. It used to feel like I belonged to a family. They used to have holiday parties. No longer. Used to get free breakfast and lunch because we all worked safe and still met production goals. Now cutting corners is the M.O. I feel unsafe every time I go to work. We have had more incidents and accidents than ever before because the push to produce as much as possible. Without upgraded equipment, reliable vehicles, and enough people, we have not been able to meet demands without cutting corners. Direct result is more metal on metal, emergency backfills, failing infrastructure, and worst of all, more injuries to people.

Constant running in circles, no real direction, just get this done and then plan on redoing.  Your workload will be increased as high turnover in the department continues and management is slow to find and hire replacements, if they can find someone who is even marginally qualified.  Expect a good part of your day to be taken up by meetings that don't always have any real use, except to make the supervisors look busy and engaged. Do not expect to get credit for any work, as the management team will take any and all credit, as they don't have the knowledge level or capabilities to understand the subject matter, but are good at creating power points to aid in telling upper management what they want to hear.  Just a big smoke show.  And when it goes bad, they are quick to blame others, doesn't matter who, as long as it's not them (listen for the bus backing up).   You only stand a chance at advancement or job security if you're related, are good at kissing backsides, or go to the same church.  You will learn by doing for the most part, as middle managements knowledge comes from google, and are of little help on the technical and field requirements they expect you to know.  Work culture is duck and cover while always watching your back.  Do not say anything out loud to anyone that you don't want repeated, especially issues with how the company is run, the walls have ears.  Hardest part of the job is to stay focused while dealing with all the drama and distractions caused by managements inability to lead effectively.  Best part of the job was the 4-10 schedule, until you realize the 3 days "off" are considered work from home days.  Be prepared for Safety to be touted, until it impacts production.  Stay only long enough to add to the resume, and never stop looking for a better deal somewhere else.

Depending on what site you work at you are usually waking up around 0400 and have either a 10 (M-Th salaried schedule), 12 (Typically hourly employees on a rotating schedule), or 13 (Typically shift supervisors matching the rotation of their crew but on site longer for shift change/tie-in) hour day at work plus an hour to hour and a half on either end (again depending on where you live and what site you work at). 

The work itself is very dependent on what department/division you are in, but S&H is a good balance of field and office work in which you participate in risk reviews, participate in inspections/audits, answer S&H questions for the area you are over (Open Pit, Process, Underground, etc.) assist with investigations and presenting the findings of some investigations to management. 

The culture is about par with other places I have worked, not terrible, but not exceptional, this is really dependent on your co-workers, direct supervisor, and department manager. I've had good and bad, but there's not much you can control about that other than your own attitude. 

The pay is good for the work you do and benefits are on par with other mines/contractors in the area. 

Typical day: 15-16 hours, paid for 12. The feeling of walking on eggshells allday everyday. Absolutely miserable mundane grunt work.

What I believe I learned: That corporations run on gold are the vilest of them all. NGM is a den of smiling snakes and treacherous coworkers. I learned early on keep to yourself and if possible avoid even eye contact.

Management: A special breed of people take on the management roles in NGM. They have to be the coldest and cruelest of the pack willing to backstab and betray anyone. I’m not even sure these people have a heart beat or emotions.

Workplace Culture: They drill safety into your head from day one and it never stops. I would wake in the middle of night sweating and panicked thinking i was at another MSHA renewal meeting. Simply put they don’t want you to die so they’re not legally obligated to pay out all under the pretense that they care about your health and safety.

Hardest part of the job: Aside from the entire job, having to stomach all the cringe and drama at the workplace.

Most enjoyable part of the job: When I got paid and when it was time to go home!

NGM is not unlike any other large company operating in a small town I imagine. Work politics and bureaucracy run deep so your old high school social tactics will be needed. Few if any managers will have your back and that’s saying something because there is one around every corner looking to collect a scalp. That’s right they’re looking for a reason to fire you so you’d better not give them one. Sounds easy enough right. Until you see the vault where they keep all their rules. No not MSHA rules that’s the volume on the shelf in front of the vault. Don’t break any of those either. Let it be noted if you’re a miner you are low skilled labor, time served and track record count for nothing. Bonus will be taken as often as possible. Break a $50 window and you can expect to lose $4,000 in bonus. No I did not add a zero. Hopefully holidays mean nothing to you or you don’t like your wife and kids because if you’re scheduled to work Christmas Day there’s no getting out of that. Who cares you’ve missed the last five thanksgivings you’ve got gold to dig number, so show up or we’ll find someone who will. Enjoy your paycheck 

They have great benefits and the clinic is a plus.
 There isn't a progression for a lot of jobs, so some people are stuck in their current positions and watch as new employees pass them up in pay and tech levels. The older long term employees started out at a lower wage, and the new people are coming in higher but they have never advanced the long time employees, so they are making almost the same money, even after 10-20 years of being here.
There is no communication, no incentives to work anymore. We used to have family picnics, movies, Christmas parties, all of that gone. They used to have service awards for how long you have worked for the company and now they don't care if you leave or not, you are just a number. The commute is horrible and you don't know if a bus is going to pick you up or not.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This company is ok I guess if you like to be treated badly 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Know that you'll have to pick up the slack of the other crews and with little to no help from upper management to resolve any issues 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Rasist and uneasy you mess up one time and upper management will look for any reason to fire you ngm is about who can stab each other in the back most and its production over safety 100% of the time they love to say its the other way around but it's not 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Non stop working  running between the ware house and ug

What is the best part of working at the company?
Where you learn that accident is preventable by working in a safe environment doing it right 100 % everytime all the time! Yes.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stress? Leave it at home. Be patient do it right the first time equals production.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If your like me, a miner, you like to play on the dirt all the time on good equipment. That, and putting family first is job number one!


What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Think safety, work safely. From the moment you get up off your pillow to the time you lay it back down it's all about one task at a time, step by step, till it's complete. It's all about living.

Show up, get told how bad everyone is doing. Do the job assigned, get treated like a number nothing more. Management is all Family and Friends so dont expect to rise in the company. Culture is bunch of uneducated hillbillies.
Management doesn't care if you have a child with disabilities, and if an emergency comes up.
Turnover rate is huge, because people get treated like trash, only good thing is the pay, but trust me, it was not worth it!
Very dangerous job, any day out there could be your last. Equipment tires can explode next to you due to horrible maintenance, extremely hot hydraulic etc lines can burst and scold you, again due to horrible maintenance. Very dangerous job. 

Unique industry, mining thousands of oz. of gold daily @ largest gold mining complex in the world. Supply vast majority of the countries gold, relatively unknown unless a local.  Lot of opportunities if you know someone (nepotism) works well or good at socializing at work but can be hard with volume of work given to field personnel.  Locals often bitter and toxic to outsiders (not from elko or battle mountain).  Really enjoy learning new industry and there are many highly educated Project Managers, engineers, procurement, operations workers, and metallurgist - vast wealth of knowledge to tap into!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Geologist 8 salaries reported	$89,038 per year
Mining engineer 3 salaries reported	$84,252 per year
Intern 8 salaries reported	$23.69 per hour
Electrical supervisor 1 salary reported	$107,450 per year
Superintendent 7 salaries reported	$143,743 per year

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