Underground Mine Planning Engineer
Core
Develop and maintain safe, practical, and optimised underground mine plans to support production objectives, maximising safety, productivity, ore recovery, and value creation.
Role type
Senior IC underground mine planning engineer
Builds
Short, medium, and long-term mine plans, development designs, stope designs, extraction plans, and mine schedules
Domain
Mining (underground hard rock gold mining)
Required skills
mine planning (short/medium/long-term), development design, stope design, mine scheduling, mine planning software proficiency, analytical skills, problem-solving
Preferred skills
Deswik software experience, Australian underground mining experience
Technologies
Deswik
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain short, medium, and long-term underground mine plans; Complete development designs, stope designs, and extraction plans; Develop mine schedules and sequencing plans to optimise production outcomes; Monitor mine performance and adjust plans and schedules as required; Support Life of Mine planning and optimisation activities; Analyse mining performance data to identify improvement opportunities; Prepare weekly and monthly planning reports; Monitor compliance against approved mine plans and schedules
Seniority
Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC