Integrated Scheduler at Anglo American

Job Description

• Your day-to-day duties will include:

Projects Scheduling

• Develop integrated project schedules (mining projects) to safely, efficiently and cost effectively to meet project objectives.
• Provide technical expertise to production teams and project managers to ensure effective optimisation of the project schedules.
• Manage project schedules to deliver project objectives.
• Identify and schedule all infrastructure requirements to execute project plans.

Compliance

• Ensure compliance with all relevant legal, environmental, occupational health and safety and risk management standards and best practices.
• Meet mining objectives and conform to Anglo mining standards, geotechnical, operational physical standards, and asset management to ensure safe mining operations within legislative guidelines.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to continuous improvement and asset optimisation initiatives to enhance mining processes.
• Keep abreast of developments in the mine planning field to initiate and implement projects and improvement initiatives toward contributing to business profitability and growth.

Stakeholder Management

• Manage internal and external relations, including the interface with service providers, as well as other functions responsible for ensuring that business needs are met and employees are satisfied.
• Assist with external stakeholder requests if appropriate to ensure smooth and efficient running of mine planning processes to address and resolve issues in a timely manner.

Budget and Cost Control Management

• Ensure that the expenditure remains within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
• Manage expenditure to ensure sound financial practices are applied and upheld.

This role is in the Project Management Office (PMO) department at a band D2 level reporting to the Project Management Office Manager.

Qualifications

• BSc (Mining) or BTech - Mining Engineering or related qualification in Metalliferous Mining
• 5 years Operational experience in Project Scheduling preferably in underground operations
• Project Management Software experience and qualification
• Must be computer Literate
• Knowledge and understanding of legal and safety compliance of mine plans and schedules
• Understands the mining lifecycle, value chain and impact of mining activities on business and operational performance.
• Ability to drive the development of optimal project schedules.