Key Role Overview
The Senior Production Planner will play an instrumental part in delivering a mine plan for one of the world's largest underground copper mines.
This role involves seeking opportunities in the medium-term plan that provide optimal results for the mine.
* Deliver a sustainable 3-month rolling production plan while monitoring and responding to compliance to plan, maintaining a focus on critical path activities.
* Set and communicate key mine priorities and messages.
* Couch the team to identify and manage risk to the mine plan from a safety and productivity perspective.
* Mentor and guide other planning engineers within the team to inform a sustainable plan.
* Be a safety leader, demonstrating commitment to health, safety, and environmental responsibility.
* Link with operational managers and superintendents to drive mine plan performance and solve for operational business risk to plan.
* Challenge and review planning inputs to be used during planning cycles.
* Identify functional capability gaps and drive improvement.
* Provide feedback to short-term scheduling and engineering functions to improve future execution plans, designs, schedules, and forecasts.
* Build and maintain close working relationships with engineering sub-functions.
Requirements
Minning Engineering degree or similar is required.
Significant mining experience and detailed understanding of the underground mining cycle is essential.
Previous supervisory or scheduling experience is also required.
* Minning Engineering degree or similar.
* Significant mining experience and detailed understanding of the underground mining cycle.
* Previous supervisory or scheduling experience.
* Experience using Microsoft Office suite, Desvik Suite including Deswik Sched.
* Ability to work collaboratively across different work groups and proactively engage with a range of stakeholders including senior levels of management.
Commitment to BHP Charter Values is required.