Engineer, Mine Design - Lephalale at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To provide operational and tactical inputs to the Mining process through capturing operational standards, monitoring and tracking standards and the execution thereof and ensuring the accuracy of information as input to the optimization process.  To deliver medium- term mine design, activity planning and continuously design out mining challenges

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Working in a project matrix organisation with multiple reporting lines.
• Individual development.
• Contractor's Management.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• BEng Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Diploma Project Management (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate Blasting For Fiery Mines (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 4 years Relevant experience within a mining engineering environment   (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Engineering Council of SA (Candidate) (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Execution of controls to ensure governance and legal compliance within the mine modelling environment related to resource management and reserve classification
• Recognise, understand and manage risks that can impact on the outputs of own job and the section
• Support development of effective methodology of business ops/communications/control to achieve statutory compliance/ appropriate risk mitigation
• Ensure compliance to sound engineering standards to quality
• Develop operating procedures to align with business objectives
• Create awareness for SHEC practices

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing effective mine designs for scheduling and execution
• Manage internal and external relations, including interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and clients are satisfied
• Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders

Effective People Management    

• Focus Area and Project prioritisation
• Internal and External Contractor's Management

Financial Support Services    

• Manage own cost recovery to be aligned with departmental targets
• Monitor expenditure and cash flow on a regular basis
• Ensure documentation is in line with departmental budgetary stipulations

Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge

Mining Process Development    

• Provide operational assurance in standards followed throughout Mining process
• Influence Tactical level with 3-to-18-month design horizon
• Guide and advise de-bushing and top-soil management
• Execute medium and long-term backfill design, block planning and volume calculations
• Interpret and convert designs for scheduling and prepare high precision construction designs, merging the medium-term designs to long term designs
• Design for practical inclusion of required services, ramps & roads , green areas, sump & water management, infrastructure such as pit power and the positions of relocation in a sequential and timeous manner
• Design for practical implementation of projects linking to the latest pit positions and status
• Reconcile short and medium-term designs to continuously be in line with the LOM designs
• Report on layout and design processes
• Focus and ensure the integrity of data captured in the Mining process/database
• Monitor trends relating to Mining standards in order to provide the basis for optimization
• Adhere to Mining Development Budget regarding support services and project management

Project Management and Continuous Improvement    

• Capital and cost management of specified projects
• Identify and rank initiatives
• Execution of projects

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment    
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective