About us

K92 Mining Limited are the owners the high-grade Kainantu Gold Mine in Eastern Highlands Province. Since commencing operations in 2016, we have delivered consistent production growth. More importantly, we have contributed significantly to the economy of Papua New Guinea, more than 90% of our employees and contractors are from PNG and our local education and skills development initiatives which include scholarships, traineeships and adult literacy programs continue to bring significant benefit the communities in which we operate. 

We are now transforming the operation with a new 1.2 mtpa process plant as well as extensive construction and expansion across site that will see us triple the output from our mine by 2027. In addition to our ongoing production success, we have an extensive exploration programme across our highly prospective tenement, making K92 a great place to build a long-term career.

About the role

As K92 continues expanding our underground gold mine near Kainantu, safety remains our number one priority, as such, we seek to add an additional safety officer will assist Safety Coordinators to provide advice and guidance to site Departments and contractors on safety related matters, implementation of the K92 Safety programs and managing the site safety database.

Key Accountabilities

Key accountabilities of this position include.

• Maintain a safe work environment for all K92 employees, visitors and contractors through audits, inspections, and training.
• Support Department and Contractor Safety Officer’s and Safety Representatives as required in the successful performance of their duties.
• Ensure all incidents are fully investigated and recorded within the site safety data base in a timely and accurate manner.
• Specific focus to underground operations
• Participate in workplace inspections and audits.
• Manage the safety team in terms of work location, tasks, priorities – in consultation with the OHSET Superintendent.
• Act as a role model for all Safety Officers.
• Conduct scheduled weekly and monthly safety audits and checks site wide.
• Ensuring that the camp and mine site safety regulations are observed by all K92 employees and contractors.
• Provide safety induction to new intakes, casuals, contractors, and visitors to site

About You

To be considered for this position, candidates must have 10 years minimum Safety work experience in an extractive industry or heavy construction environment. In addition to this, candidates should also (ideally) be able to demonstrate some or all the following. 

• Appropriate Safety Officer qualifications (Cert IV OHS minimum).
• Significant experience with auditing, incident reporting.
• Incident investigation training (preferably ICAM)
• Well versed with safety systems that deals with compliance records and reports.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Very good end user of MS Office Suite: Word, Excel and Outlook.

Life at K92 

K92 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, our commitment is to respect the rights of every individual to work to their highest potential, free from discrimination.  Our values of Collaboration, Accountability, Respect for others, Excellence and Safety are at the core of everything we do, and they are the foundation upon which our success has been built.

Our camp is well managed and provides residents with good, healthy meals made from locally sourced fresh produce as well as internet, cable tv and a gymnasium.

At K92, we want all employees to share in our success, so as well as a competitive salary, employees also participate in our long- and short-term incentive plans, we also provide employees with access to savings incentive programs, medical assistance and the option to salary sacrifice for certain expenses.

In addition to all of this, employees can also access our Wellbeing and employee assistance programs whilst working a friendly roster. 

THIS POSITION IS OPEN ONLY TO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE & WORK IN PNG WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP