This is a senior role for a gold mining operation and reports to CEO
You must have 15 – 20 years in open pit and underground mining.
Role Description
Seasoned mining engineer with technical and operational experience in both open pit and underground mining. This role will be head office based to oversee the health of mining operations within the group. It will be required to give operational support to mine sites and projects to do mine planning and design, identify and implement continues improvement projects and conduct technical improvement interventions. This role requires strong interpersonal skills as multi-disciplinary interaction service provision will be a key success factor.
- Responsibilities
- Mine planning: Short, Medium and Long Term
- Monitor health of mining operations
- Establishing group mining and technical standards and operating procedures
- Efficiency improvement projects
- Contractor tender evaluation
- Continuous improvement projects
- Technical improvement projects
- Mine to mill optimization
Qualifications
- BEng Mining Engineering
- MEng and or MBA
- Mine Managers Certificate of Competency
Experience 15 – 20 years
Open pit mining experience
- Production Management
- Drill and Blast & engineering
- Load and Haul & engineering
- Establishing technical and operational mining standards
- Sound knowledge of mining efficiencies
Mine Planning
- Pit optimisation
- Pit, pushback and waste dump design
- Production scheduling
- Geotechnical engineering
- Resource to reserve conversion
Underground mining experience
Production Management
Mechanized and conventional mining
- Development
- Stoping
- Establishing technical and operational mining standards
- Sound knowledge of mining efficiencies
Mine Planning
- Mining method selection
- Mine design
- Geotechnical engineering
- Production scheduling
- Resource to reserve conversion
- Compiling mining budgets
- Financial modelling
- Mining equipment modelling
- Operational turnaround projects
- Commissioning new projects
- Expansion of existing projects
- Open pit to underground transition
- Technical services management
- Resource and reserve reporting
Skills
- Production management
- Mine planning
- Efficiency improvement
- Managing consultants effectively
- Project Management
- Mining equipment modelling
- Financial modelling
- Budgeting
- Technical open pit
- Technical underground
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Good management skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Software: Surpac, Whittle and Minesched
This is a challenging opportunity to join a top mining operation – please email CV to Colin Roberts – colin@valcol.co.zw