About the role
We are currently seeking a Mining Engineer to join our high-performing team at our QCoal Northern Hub; situated about 100km South-west of Bowen in the friendly lifestyle location of the beautiful Whitsunday Coast of Queensland and only a few minutes from the township of Collinsville.
Reporting to the Technical Services Superintendent, you will be required to work collaboratively in the delivery of high-quality solutions and results for our open-cut coal mine site.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
1. Use your scheduling skills to produce Short/Medium Term schedules for the Northern Hub and produced optimised Short/Medium Term mining plans.
2. Utilise your design skills to develop rolling weekly excavator plans and schedules for the mining operation.
3. Provide and implement designs, including pit and dump design, dozer push, rehabilitation and water management designs.
4. Coordinate plans and schedules and monitoring of actual progress with benchmarks.
5. Assist in the management of the weekly dig/dump plans.
6. Implementation and compliance of the Weekly Plan and site Safety Health and Environmental standards to ensure safe and sustainable mine standards.
7. Provide information to relevant staff to assist in the End of Month reporting requirements.
8. Providing guidance and input into the drill and blast requirements
9. Assessing opportunities to maximising equipment utilisation
10. Assist with in house software and data capture software to run reports as required.
11. Utilise your skills to continually aim for innovative solutions.
About you
12. Prior experience working as a mining engineer on an operational open-cut coal mine
13. Bach of Engineering (Mining or Civil)
14. Proficient in MS Office and mine design, planning and scheduling packages including Vulcan, Deswik, Spry / XPAC / XACT highly desired
15. Experience in Spry will be advantageous
16. Planning, design and scheduling skills
17. Well-developed written and oral communication skills
18. Authorisation to work within Australia
What Thiess can do for you
19. 5/2 Monday to Friday Roster with monthly RDO's
20. Residential housing provided in Collinsville or the beautiful coastal town of Bowen
21. Help to grow your career, offering diverse and varied opportunities for advancement
22. A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products
23. Salary sacrifice options for novated leasing
24. Referral bonus program - earn $2,500 for a successful referral *T&Cs apply
25. Eligibility for annual bonus scheme as well as the QCNH six monthly retention payment