Company Description
**Excellence is the vision. You'll make it a reality**
- Career defining opportunities
- Drive operational and strategic excellence
- Multiple roles across our Australian operations
**Due to strong forecast growth, Anglo American is embarking on an exciting journey in Australia. This shift has us venturing into an international campaign sourcing technical talent across the globe to provide the expertise and specialist knowledge to our operations.**
**Metallurgical Coal**
Metallurgical coal is an essential ingredient in blast-furnace steel manufacture, producing steel used for critical building and infrastructure around the world. In Australia, we operate two open cut and three underground metallurgical coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin, every year producing millions of tonnes of the highest quality hard coking coal for this purpose.
**Job Description**:
Anglo American is looking for Ventilation and Gas Management professionals to join our dynamic Technical Services Departments and help drive a culture driven by safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
We want your specialist knowledge of underground ventilation and gas drainage practices; whether that be leading the management and coordination of all underground gas drainage activities, or providing on the ground management of the ventilation systems and underground in-seam (UIS) gas drainage processes to support the Ventilation and Gas Drainage departments.
With your diverse capability in communicating with a range of stakeholders and high level of planning and problem solving, one of these roles could even see you provide strategic advice in order to optimise the value of the mine in terms of ventilation and gas management
The roles a diverse, and an opportunity to be a part of something very unique.
**The Lifestyle**
Queensland offers safe multicultural communities, strong economy, internationally renowned educational facilities and a relaxed outdoor lifestyle for you and your family to enjoy. These roles provide flexible lifestyle options to either live residentially in the local mining town, fly-in fly-out from Brisbane (company paid) or drive-in drive-out from the idyllic Queensland coast.
**Qualifications**:
- Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering (or related mining discipline)
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in an underground mining operation as well as specialist knowledge in ventilation and / or gas drainage
- Ability to develop innovative solutions to complex problems, and a continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to influence and build relationships across site and technical experts in our corporate office
Additional Information
- VISA Sponsorship
- International relocation, including flights and relocation of goods
- A competitive salary package and advantages including 5 weeks annual leave, housing assistance if living locally or company paid flights from Brisbane to site
- Incentive Plans
- Flexible work arrangements
- Opportunities to continue your growth and development
- A diverse workplace where your abilities and talents will be recognised and encouraged
**What we Offer**
When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you will find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We are a large, successful multinational company - and we are still growing all the time.
**Who we are**
We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity, and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources - diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel - our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.
**Background checks**
**Inclusion and Diversity**
At Anglo American, we embrace change and promote an inclusive and diverse environment where you can bring your whole self to work, every day. We are adopting new approaches to recruitment, talent development, mentoring, parental leave, and flexible working to further support diversity across our business.
**How we are committed to your safety**
Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day's work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, but we are also continually investing in new technologies - from drones to data analytics - that are helping to make mining sa