Workplace Type: Hybrid
Newmont Peru SRL was founded in 1983 as an exploration mining company whose main objective is obtain new gold reserves. Headquartered in Lima, Peru this is the home base for Regional Operations. Our work culture embraces diversity, engages employees, fosters innovation, rewards high performance and develops great leaders.
We offer an unparalleled blend of opportunities and career satisfaction with all the benefits you would expect from a global company. This combined with our growth opportunities, makes Newmont great company to work.
- People: Our goal is to maximize the competitive advantage we realize through our people.
- Health & Safety : Our goal is to achieve zero harm.
- Operational Excellence: Our goal is to create a culture of continuous improvement.
- Growth: Our goal is to deliver profitable production gains.
- Sustainability and External Relations: Our goal is to gain access to land, resources, approvals and capital
What will you be responsible for?
Support the Business unit with the acquisition, management and divestment of land assets, ensuring alignment with business goals while maximizing long-term value and mitigating risks
What You’ll Do:
In this role, the individual will:
- Ensure the fulfilment of statutory, regulatory, and contractual mineral, mining, and state-owned land tenure obligations through the BU land team, necessary to maintain the validity of the Company’s mineral, mining, and state-owned land rights including, but not limited to, coordinating with cross functional partners to ensure (i) minimum work expenditures are budgeted for and incurred; (ii) monetary obligations are budgeted for, duly paid, or received; (iii) reports required by governmental authorities and counterparties are duly submitted or received; and (iv) field monuments demarcating land boundary lines are erected and maintained, where required.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to support negotiations with private individuals, companies, Indigenous or community groups, and governmental authorities for the acquisition or divestment of surface and mineral land rights within the BU, including through M&A, asset-level transactions, and earn-in, joint venture, access, lease, option, impact benefit, and exchange agreements. Lead negotiations in partnership with other functions on simple/less complex transactions. Participate in the drafting of instruments of the foregoing transactions, along with term sheets, letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, and affidavits.
- Lead the preparation, submission, and facilitation until issuance of the applications, dossiers, and petitions of surface or mineral land rights from governmental authorities.
- Complete the filing, recording, or registering of all land rights for the BU in appropriate public and mining tenure registries.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, provide input into the overall strategy, and create /deploy long-range land solutions/tactics for operating and project sites that maximize opportunities and mitigate land-related risks or delays to mine start-up, production, and expansion.
- Build on and maintain expertise on land rights, including competitor-owned land near Company mines and projects, to identify opportunities for acquisition or divestment that align with exploration, development, and operational objectives.
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- Implement global Standards, Implementation Guides, and RMS's LOD1 processes, and other functional procedures, while collaborating regularly with corporate Land and cross-functional partners to ensure alignment on strategic land objectives, governance, and compliance activities across the BU.
- Lead the completion of land title and spatial due diligence via the BU land team, sufficient for the scope of the transaction and investment risk to the Company.
- In partnership with Social Performance and Security, implement solutions/ tactics to mitigate risks of trespass, adverse possession, and unsanctioned artisanal/small-scale mining within the BU. Coordinate with Social Performance to secure First Nation, Native Title, Ejido, and other Indigenous agreements, as well as Heritage approvals, and with Environment to secure necessary permits, ensuring that land considerations are integrated and aligned with legal requirements and the Company’s strategic objectives.
- Support land-related transactions in collaboration with cross-functional partners (including M&A, asset-level transactions, and earn-in, joint venture, access, lease, option, impact benefit, and exchange agreements with private individuals, companies, Indigenous or community groups, and governmental authorities).
The above responsibilities are the main responsibilities of the position. The position also develops other activities that are not included in this document and the immediate supervisor is responsible for informing such activities.
Training and experience
Undergraduate degree in land management or associated discipline, such as environmental or business. Applicable laws and regulations regarding compliance with land tenure obligations.Land-related instruments and agreements. Enterprise land management databases.Land administration and compliance work. Basic familiarity with GIS data and ArcGIS software.CPL or RPL AAPL accreditation, or an equivalent accreditation relevant to the Business Unit, preferred.
English and Spanish are required.
Advanced proficiency in land title compliance, land acquisition/access, and divestment following relevant laws and regulations governing real property, mining tenure, Indigenous lands, and land administration.Advanced proficiency in reviewing and analyzing land title instruments, including Deeds, Leases, Joint Venture, and Option Agreements.Advanced proficiency with enterprise land management databases and other relevant business systems.Competent proficiency in drafting essential land title instruments, including Deeds, Leases, Options, and Access Agreements.Competent proficiency in negotiating the acquisition or divestment of land assets, and navigating the interplay among surface, mineral, and other land rights.Foundational proficiency with environmental and permitting processes as they relate to land tenure.
Working conditions and location
The person can be based in Peru or Chile.
The incumbent may be required to travel and assist other sites nationally and internationally.
We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
Our business success comes from the accomplishments and well-being of our employees and contractors. Our goal is to build a workplace culture that fosters leaders and allows every person to thrive, contribute, and grow. We are committed to selecting and developing our employees, and to establishing a work environment where everyone can take an active part in reaching our strategic goals while feeling a sense of pride in working at Newmont.
Newmont seeks to recruit, hire, place and promote qualified applicants, meaning applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the position, without regard to personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnic, social and indigenous origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
NOTE: Newmont does not ask for or require job applicants to pay money to apply or be considered for employment with the Company. In addition, Newmont does not ask potential job candidates to provide sensitive personal data without first submitting a job application through our secure, online portal, and only as requested for legitimate business purposes. If you are asked to provide money or sensitive personal data through any other means, do not respond and please report this immediately to it.sec@newmont.com.
