Sr. Mining Engineer

Under the direction of the Superintendent, the incumbent is responsible for mine design, long term mine planning, economic evaluation, and management of major construction projects.

Essential Job Functions:

• Long-range mine planning: Prepare ultimate pit designs, optimum pit phase designs and related schedules, dumping designs and schedules, leach pad designs and loading schedules and Life of Mine Plans.
• Production scheduling: Produces mine schedules for annual budgeting and long-range schedules for LOM planning.
• Project management: Manages design, bidding and contracting of multi-million dollar construction projects.
• Economic analysis: Evaluates economic performance of projects, mine plans and equipment replacement analyses.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering or a closely related discipline from an accredited university.

Experience:

• A minimum of eight to ten years experience in mine engineering activities at an open pit precious metal operation.

Certification:

• Registration as a professional mining engineer in Nevada is preferred.

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