Mine Planner at Hatch

Mine Planner – Design and Scheduling (Underground and/or Open Pit)

• A position has become available for a Mine Planner who will be working as a consultant to the Mining Industry, involved in underground and/or open cast/open pit mining studies. The Mine Planner will be based in Greenstone Hill (Johannesburg), and will partake in consulting, interfacing with clients and providing technical input into the delivery of Mining Engineering projects throughout Africa, Europe and Middle East, but may support other global projects too.

Key responsibilities

• Perform underground and/or open pit mining studies, including mine designs, schedules, operating and capital cost estimates as well as trade-off or optimisation studies.
• Provide technical support to project teams working on mining related projects.
• Improve the quality of technical solutions.
• Assist with presentation to management on alternative layouts, site-specific decisions, engineering, project progress, cash flows and capital estimates and applications for expenditure.
• Administration, including invoicing, report writing, general correspondence to client and contractors.
• Assist with proposals and tenders.
• Skills transfer and technical assistance to Junior Mining Engineers

Requirements

• Proficient in speaking/reading/writing English.
• Willingness and ability to travel as work requires.
• 10 years mining experience.
• Literate in mine planning software packages (i.e. Deswik, Studio 5D, Mine 2-4D, Xpac, Surpac, MineSched, Datamine, NPV Scheduler or Whittle, Minemax Planner, PCBC, PCSLC)
• Excellent report writing and communication skills.

An ability to:

• Maintain and develop professional and technical competencies.

Work with minimal supervision, must be self-driven and have excellent time management skills.

• Adjust to changing priorities and schedules.
• Interface with people of different backgrounds, cultures and at every level of the organisation

The following would be advantageous:

• Advanced Deswik skills.
• Advanced Excel skills (ie VB Script).
• Experience on multiple commodities.