Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Mine Superintendents who run the pit and the underground — drill-blast-load-haul cadence, dispatch-driven fleet productivity, contract miner oversight, ground control awareness, and MSHA compliance owned at the face, with crews led on rotation. Field leadership verified by reference.
A structured process for the mine leadership hire — where the wrong choice surfaces as a slipping strip ratio, a dispatch board nobody believes, or an MSHA citation trend headed the wrong way.
30-minute call. Align on mining method and fleet — open-pit, underground, owner or contractor — production targets, roster pattern, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Mine Superintendents with named operations behind them, not adjacent heavy-civil backgrounds. References from mine managers, chief engineers, and contractor leadership included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn’t stick, we replace them — that’s true across every engagement model we offer.
A superintendent who has held drill-blast-load-haul cadence through a wet season reads a short-interval board differently than one who has managed from the plan. We shortlist supers who have owned bench or heading productivity — and verify tonnes, availability, and dilution performance by reference.
Open-pit fleets, underground development and stoping, owner crews, and contract miners run on different rhythms. As part of our mining and critical minerals recruiting practice, we match candidates to your method, fleet, and roster — not just the job title.
On MSHA-regulated sites, the superintendent sets the tone. We ask references how safety actually ran — workplace examinations, task training, contractor onboarding, citation and incident trends — so field credibility comes verified, not claimed.
Named operations with drill-blast-load-haul or development-and-stoping cadence owned — tonnes and grade delivered against plan, with fleet size and bench or heading counts.
Working fluency in fleet management and dispatch systems — and evidence they used the data to move truck productivity and dig rates, not just report them.
Contract miner oversight — scopes, schedules, quantity reconciliation, and safety onboarding — with owner-contractor interfaces they have run.
Practiced interface with geotechnical engineers — ground control management plans, bench and stope inspections, and the judgment to stop work when conditions change.
MSHA training current for the site type — Part 48 underground or surface as applicable — plus workplace-examination discipline and citation history discussed factually with references.
Crew leadership on rotating rosters — fatigue management, cross-shift handover discipline, and supervisor bench development at camp-based operations.
Production plans don’t wait on hiring. Tell us the method and fleet — we’ll shortlist superintendents who have run them before.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks. Total time to placement is typically 3–4 weeks. Narrow asks — say, underground stoping history on a specific method with contractor crews — can add a week of targeted sourcing.
Direct-hire search is a 20% success fee with no upfront fee on single roles — you pay when the hire starts. For multi-hire programs, embedded recruiting and RPO price as a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee — typically well below stacked contingency fees at volume. Leadership and executive searches route through executive search.
Most US markets run $130,000–$170,000 base. Superintendents at large or complex operations — major open pits, mechanized underground mines — typically run $165,000–$200,000, with rotation uplifts and site premiums on top at camp-based operations.
A Construction Superintendent runs subcontractors, sequence, and safety on a build. A Mine Superintendent runs a producing operation: daily drill-blast-load-haul cadence, dispatch-driven fleet decisions, ground control interfaces, and MSHA compliance owned in the field — every shift, not just through turnover. Different rhythm, different hire.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee, regardless of engagement model. If a placement doesn’t work out inside the guarantee window, we rerun the search and replace them at no additional placement fee.
Yes. Superintendents plus mine managers, general foremen, drill and blast engineers, and dispatch leadership route through embedded recruiting or RPO — one accountable recruiting team across the operation.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll map your mining method, fleet, roster, and production plan — then start sourcing Mine Superintendents with verified history in them.
