Manager - Technical Services at De Beers Group

Key Responsibilities include: 

• Lead Safety by Design – create the foundation for Safe and efficient mine design to support operational systems of work. Apply extensive knowledge and experience of Underground Mining systems and processes to lead the Mining Technical team and influence Mining Operations ensuring integrated and enabling solutions from design through to execution. Seek opportunities to systematically support efforts in leading and improving safety in all areas of the underground mine and integrated business.
• Provide leadership, direction and co-ordination of Underground Mine Engineering Team and support underground technical functions to Venetia Underground Mine. Primarily - Mine Ventilation, Underground Geotechnical, Underground Survey, Underground Mine Planning/scheduling. Including Underground Operational Geology function integration into mining technical and operational mine processes.
• Review, set and finalise annual budgets and technical mine plans, cascading through to business tactics and short-range plans and actions. Develop first principle mining budgets from mine plans for equipment, consumables, labor, mining costs. Provide key review input and guidance to Long Term Planning teams, Life of Mine and RDP work requirements.
• Develop systems, management processes and routines for effective work management and medium-short range execution planning of mining technical department work, integrating into aligned, achievable and challenging operational tactics and work plans and schedules for Mining Operations Teams.
• Establish a detailed and integrated suite of Underground quality control and performance measures reporting and reviewing compliance ensuring high technical and operating mine performance culture. Ensure effective management control and understanding of all key and critical underground mining parameters.
• Drive improvement and innovation in underground mining technical and design & operating processes through engagement with external stakeholders, key suppliers and OEM’s and internal business stakeholders.
• Work within and across multi stakeholder BU & T/S Mining Teams, supporting other Heads, Leads and Principles in delivering departmental and BU objectives in support of BU and Business Goals. Ensure effective team collaboration to combine our strengths, support each other to deliver targeted outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Formal qualification in Mine Engineering, with a minimum requirement of a Bachelor Engineering Mining Degree.

Role specific knowledge and experience:

• Extensive underground hard rock mining engineering site and home office based operational, technical and management experience that demonstrates successful application of underground mining engineering fundamentals, Safety, Technical Leadership and Operational mining systems. 
• Extensive experience at multiple large scale modern mechanised mines – operating, supervisory and operational leadership experience specific to effective management of safe and efficient best practice underground mechanised mining operations. 
• Demonstrated supervisory and management experience in operational and technical mining roles within a best practice underground mechanised mining project or operation.
• Risk and Crisis management training and practical experience.
• Proven ability of successfully leading technical Systems establishment (technical, operations, maintenance, cost), performance improvement and management in UG mechanised mines. Safety Leadership, site planning and budgeting processes, risk control and management, emergency planning and management.
• Proven experience at mines considered global ‘’best practice’’ for underground mechanised mines – ability to introduce systems, standards and practices into VUP to support achieving company Breakthrough and P101 performance targets.

Closing Date: 22nd, April 2022