The Site Services Facility Worker - Skilled plays an important leadership role on the ground, supporting the Site Services Lead Hand and Superintendent by overseeing day-to-day execution of general services tasks. This includes mentoring junior staff, maintaining safety compliance, ensuring quality work execution, and facilitating clear communication between the field crew and site leadership.
Location
This position will be based at the Rook I site on a 2 week in/2 week out schedule. NexGen’s Rook I Project Site is located approximately 155km north of La Loche, Saskatchewan. Travel is coordinated by NexGen.
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Ensure the NexGen camp and all associated areas operate smoothly on a day-to-day basis, maintaining a safe, functional, and comfortable environment for all residents.
- Receive work requests, assign tasks, action priority items, and follow through to completion, all while ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently, and to company standards.
- Conduct proactive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of camp buildings, machinery, utilities, and equipment; coordinate external support when required.
- Provide day-to-day direction, mentorship, and oversight of a small crew, ensuring tasks are clearly communicated, productivity is maintained, and quality expectations are met.
- Assist in planning daily and weekly work activities, balancing reactive issues with preventative maintenance and operational priorities.
- Ensure adequate materials, tools, equipment, and staffing levels are available to support camp functionality; track usage and initiate supply requests as required.
- Provide daily and weekly operational reports, including completed work, outstanding issues, safety concerns, and upcoming priorities, to supervisors and site leadership.
- Demonstrate strong safety leadership by ensuring all work complies with company safety, environmental, and confidentiality requirements; identify hazards, implement controls, and intervene when unsafe work is observed.
- Conduct routine inspections of facilities and infrastructure, identify deficiencies, and implement corrective actions to reduce downtime and emergency repairs.
- Assist in the development and coaching of less experienced workers, including NexGen student and pathways program employees, by providing hands-on instruction and feedback.
- Support emergency response, winterization, and extreme weather preparedness, including infrastructure protection and urgent repairs.
- Perform other reasonable tasks as requested by management.
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1-3 years construction or site services experience.
- Knowledge and understanding of site operations and daily maintenance.
- Able to work with Power tools (skill saws, drills, mitre saws, etc.).
- Light civil knowledge (trench backfills, ground compaction methods, use of laser level, etc.).
- Small engine and pump system knowledge.
- Able to work in diverse weather conditions.
- Assist in the development of lesser experienced facility workers.
- Able to lift 50lbs.
- Able to work various labour activities (shovelling, climb up/down ladders, manually handling materials up to 50 lbs for periods of time, etc.).
- Successful NexGen Student or Pathways program employee.
- Valid Driver's License
Communication
- Communicates in an open candid and consistent manner with impact to inform, enroll, coach, and inspire.
- Effectively builds rapport and appropriately delivers information (oral and written) in a timely, well-organized, thoughtful, and engaging manner.
Team Effectiveness
- Works collaboratively across functional teams, embracing unique talents and diverse perspectives, to achieve common goals.
- Takes a proactive approach to building relationships by actively participating as a prepared team member, demonstrating flexibility and respect for different work styles.
Work Management
- Plans, manages and follows through to ensure the flow and timely completion of activities to deliver successful work results.
- Maintains quality and safety standards to ensure NexGen's Elite Standards are met across all work streams.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability.
Personal Accountability
- Takes responsibility for own actions and outcomes.
- Maintains effective and professional approach, demonstrating resilience and accountability in a fluid fast paced work environment.
Analytical/Critical Thinking
- Able to identify, articulate and problem solve for complex situations with consideration for outcomes.
- Provides clear and informative explanations to support effective decisions in line with company objectives.
- Uses creative, conceptual, and/or inductive reasoning.
Functional & Technical Skills
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Applies specialized knowledge in own area of expertise and openly shares information and knowledge with others.
NexGen Energy is a Canadian company focused on optimally developing the Rook I Project into the largest, low-cost producing uranium mine globally, incorporating the highest levels of environmental and social governance. The Company has a strong portfolio of highly prospective projects, including the Company's 100% owned Rook I property that is host to the high-grade Arrow Deposit (discovered February, 2014), South Arrow (discovered July, 2017), Harpoon (discovered August, 2016), Bow (discovered March, 2015), and the Cannon area (discovered April, 2016).
NexGen is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXE and on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol NXG, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an operations office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
