Jobs at Hecla Mining Company

Leads equipment reliability programs for mining operations, including downtime analysis, asset criticality reviews, condition monitoring, defect elimination, preventive maintenance optimization, root cause analysis, FMEA, and maintenance cost reduction. Maintains CMMS and IFS asset hierarchies, tracks maintenance KPIs, provides technical guidance to maintenance and operations teams, collaborates with OEMs and other sites, and mentors junior engineers.

Provides electrical engineering and asset management support for mine maintenance and operations. Responsibilities include power distribution and instrumentation troubleshooting, load calculations, equipment specification, NEC and safety compliance, electrical design oversight, consultant and contractor management, project procurement, construction and commissioning oversight, E-TAP model management, drawing updates, SOP development, and reliability improvement initiatives.

Prepares and analyzes site budgets, forecasts, operating costs, capital plans, and long-range financial plans. Supports month-end and annual closing with journals, accruals, and reports; maintains a sales revenue database; prepares sales and property tax filings; and provides technical accounting support. The role works with departments to identify miscoding, cost overruns, and cost-reduction opportunities, while handling high volumes of accounting data independently and accurately.

Leads the strategy, design, governance, and administration of compensation, benefits, retirement, leave, payroll, and total rewards analytics across the U.S. and Canada. Oversees self-funded health plans, pension and 401(k) programs, compensation architecture, pay-for-performance, payroll controls, vendor relationships, compliance, M&A integrations, and executive compensation support. Builds a scalable total rewards function, develops a small team, and partners with Finance, Legal, Operations, and HR leadership.

Establish and maintain project cost and schedule baselines, implement earned value management, analyze budgets and commitments, prepare executive performance reports, support stage-gate reviews, develop benchmarking tools, and improve ERP-based project controls processes. The role also trains site teams, evaluates estimates and schedules, tracks contingency and variances, and supports capital budgeting across multiple mining operations.

Leads technical studies across operating mines, growth projects, and joint ventures, including trade-off studies, feasibility evaluations, due diligence, regulatory reports, permitting support, and economic modeling. Defines study objectives, coordinates multidisciplinary internal and external teams, manages consultants, oversees quality and governance, and presents recommendations to executives, the Board, and joint venture committees. Ensures studies support sound decisions, regulatory disclosure, project handover, safety, and subsequent action.

Administers enterprise network infrastructure across multiple locations, including routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, remote access, and hybrid cloud connectivity. Establishes network standards, documentation, maintenance cycles, configuration baselines, and ITIL-aligned processes. Monitors and remediates network issues, manages hardware lifecycles, supports mine-site OT networks, partners with cybersecurity and systems teams, enables service desk resolution, and participates in maintenance windows and occasional site travel.