Senior Mining Engineer

• Qualification: Mining Engineering Degree
• Experience: 5 to 7 years

Requirement:

• Extensive production experience as an open-pit engineer at a mine site, long-term mine planning.

Necessary skills:

• Computerized mine planning, including optimisation and design, competent report writing, environmental and safety awareness.
• Must have a desire to train others.

Preferred skills:

• Well developed understanding of all aspects of mining, including drill and blast, load and haul, rehabilitation and statutory requirements.
• Understanding of resource and reserve reporting requirements
• Exposure to financial analysis for mine planning, drill and blast technologies, productivity analysis and geotechnical aspects would be preferred but not essential
• Proficiency with Surpac, Whittle 4X

Role:

• Primary role is to liaise with mine planning and operations staff at each site, including other related departments such as processing and management, to coordinate mine planning functions.
• The incumbent will provide mine planning support to the various group projects and in addition will provide technical support for projects seeking efficiency improvements such as cost reductions and productivity studies.

Responsibilities would include, but not limited to:

• Undertake technical evaluations and assist others to review new projects (in part or whole).
• Coordinate with GME and site Resource Development staff to ensure resource updates are provided within the required timeframe to allow LOM plans to be developed in a timely manner.
• Provide mine planning and optimisation support to allow reserves to be generated with timely consideration of mine and corporate requirements.
• Provide mine planning support for the development of life of mine plans whilst coordinating input parameters from the various operations.
• Provide support and assist with the completion of technical reports for mine design, scheduling and project work.
• Provide mine planning support for the collation of group production statistics.
• Assist with the preparation of quarterly production forecasts.
• Provide training of site mining engineers in technical and operational matters through coordination with the relevant management at each of the operations.
• Graduate engineers.
• Operations-based mine planning engineers.
• Regular travel to mine sites within group companies.