Job Description:
The role of Mine Planning Engineer involves developing daily and weekly schedules that align with the monthly schedule and achieve monthly targets. This is to be completed through detailed planning, engaging stakeholders, understanding of monthly schedules, projects and costs, dump construction methodologies, and long-term strategies. Driving processes that involve validating inputs and reconciling previous performance is the responsibility of the engineer and is an integral part of the planning process to ensure the most efficient plan can be developed. These include the short-term dump design process and weekly reconciliation process.
About the Role:
* Creation of weekly schedules and assisting with monthly scheduling of pits and overburden emplacement facility
* Provide guidance for other technical staff, planners and support at planning meetings
* Liaise with Maintenance teams to optimise equipment maintenance scheduling
* Process owner for short-term overburden placement facility design work and inspection processes
* Responsible for weekly reconciliation of data to ensure it is correct and updated according to business requirements
* Liaise with a range of internal stakeholders to ensure optimisation of resources to meet the mine plan
* Provide expertise and guidance on overburden emplacement facility sequence and construction methodologies
* Ensure all designs are compliant with policy
Key Requirements:
* Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Mining or similar relevant tertiary qualification from a recognised institution
* Demonstrated knowledge of mining engineering systems in open pit metalliferous mines that includes a minimum of three years' experience
* Previous experience with mine design and scheduling software (Vulcan, Deswik)
* Overburden emplacement facility management experience
* Strong planning background with demonstrated success in improving efficiency and achieving mine planning
What We Offer:
* 15 days on, 13 days off – FIFO roster
* 13% super
* Career progression and professional development opportunities
* Salary sacrifice for Superannuation and vehicles
* Exclusive access to rewards program, offering discounts on a wide range of companies
* Long life mine