Manager: Mining Engineer at Gold Fields Limited

Job description

The Mining Engineering Manager’s role is to provide the mining engineering capacity to the production function in order to ensure efficient execution of underground mining operations. The role’s primary focus is on underground mine design, operational planning and engineering integration. The scope of the role includes leading and administration of the department. The incumbent will be responsible for the comprehensive medium- and short-term mine planning strategies and the production engineering function responsible for drill and blast design and QAQC (Quality Assurance, Quality Control). The role holder will also be responsible for the integration and direction of production and services functions to be performed in accordance with the overall mine plan. The incumbent is further responsible for ensuring effective cross-functional coordination between geotechnical, geology, mine planning,

survey, engineering, backfill, contractors, mine support functions, construction, business improvement and production and to ensure efficient and effective technical services are provided. A project management style coordination system is to be implemented for effective execution.

The appointee must be in possession of a degree in Mining Engineering and a Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency as well as a postgraduate Business or Project Management qualification. He/she must also be a registered member of SAIMM or other relevant professional body. 10 years’ experience in the mining and/or mineral sector is essential, together with management/

leadership experience and exposure to underground mining production and planning experience. Further requirements include operating proficiency in Microsoft Office, mine design and planning software, and technical competency in drill and blast design, as well as mine scheduling.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leadership and technical direction: Production (drill and blast, short-term planning and mediumterm planning)
• Ensuring cross-functional coordination to support the overall operational performance objectives and SHEC standards
• Short-term scheduling: Development and approval of the monthly accepted plans, together with change management processes, and related administration, and daily compliance reporting
• Section planning: Safe development and stope design; stope area layouts; concept extraction sequences; infrastructure planning; stope area notes; and reconciliation
• Medium-term planning: Development of a rolling 3-month plan updated monthly to incorporate latest changes, together with a monthly annual

forecast

• Maintaining stope database and reconciliation
• Administration, and coordination of the departments within the scope
• of responsibility Production engineering: Drill and blast designs with associated QAQC processes required for efficient extraction of the ore-body, services infrastructure planning and coordination
• Overall coordination of productive capacity across functional disciplines, including business improvement projects
• Identifying and reacting to risks in terms of safety and productive output
• Developing systems to control and measure progress, compliance with plans and report deviations.