Mine Operator at Intrepid Potash in New Mexico

Mine Operator – New Mexico East Plant

Build Your Mining Career While Helping To Keep Production Moving Safely!

4 12-Hour Shifts: 4 days on, 3 days off. Shift is 7am to 7pm, then rotates to 7pm to 7am.

Pay Range – 25.00-45.00/hr

How You Will Create Value:

• Operate underground mine equipment, including miners, roof bolters, dozers, and shuttle cars, to produce ore safely and efficiently.
• Monitor equipment performance and product quality, identify operating issues, and make appropriate adjustments or communicate repair needs.
• Complete production support tasks such as changing miner bits, moving power cables, and hand-shoveling conveyor belt tail sections.
• Complete pre-shift inspections, preventive maintenance, equipment cleanup, and basic troubleshooting to keep equipment operating safely and efficiently.

What You Will Need to Be Successful in the Role:

• Ability to work safely and effectively in an underground environment, including areas that may be dimly lit, have low clearances, and include exposure to vehicles, machinery, and other loud noises.
• Strong commitment to safety, reliability, teamwork and maintaining a positive productive work environment.
• Ability to lift, push, and/or pull up to 50 pounds, perform strenuous physical activity, and wear required safety attire and PPE at all times.
• High school diploma or GED, a valid driver's license.

Why Work for Us?

• We impact lives for the better! Our efforts as a solution miner are essential for agriculture, animal feed, and other industrial operations.
• Our quality, agility, reliability, and speed differentiate us with customers. We act with integrity and trust.
• We are financially healthy with strong revenue, cash flow, and no long-term debt.
• We have both a proud history and a compelling future, focused on sustainable and superior operational excellence and customer service.
• Our benefits include medical coverage with prescription drug benefits, dental and vision insurance, and a 401(k) with immediate vesting and a generous employer match.
• We offer opportunities to grow through Intrepid's career path programs and provide PPE, uniform shirts, and boot vouchers.
• Relocation assistance or temporary company housing may be available for qualified candidates when applicable. Underground maintenance and electrical opportunities may also be available.

One Team. One Purpose. Intrepid Proud!

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Intrepid Potash Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other protected Federal, State/Province, or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.