Mine Planner - Kathu / Kuruman Area at Aveng

• Assist operations with their mine planning and scheduling requirements by developing short term plans and tasks to support mining operations.  

Minimum Requirements    
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Tertiary Qualification in Mining Engineering or similar

EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years experience in Mining
• At least 2 years Mine Planning / Scheduling experience.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Work with the client to design work areas for the following periods (day, week, month & quarter)
• Design Blast patterns and assist explosive supplier in optimising the fragmentation.
• Understand and be able to estimate equipment productivity to determine the required resources needed to achieve the plan.
• Liaising with the Mine Planning team to ensure that schedules are aligned with quarterly forecasts and the financial year operating plans.
• Monitor actual performance against schedules and capture, record, and report nonadherence to the schedules to the operational management team.
• Identify critical risks to the schedules and plan for elimination of, or contingency for those risks.
• Monitor and analyse scheduling system performance.
• Collect, validate, and communicate daily and shift operational performance data.
• Optimise and schedule development and mining activities to achieve the operational KPIs.
• Measuring pit design conformance, to ensure safe mining conditions within the pit.
• Pro-active scenario planning
• Manage customer expectations and requirements to deliver effective and efficient planning services to the business in line with company values and standards.
• Build and maintain key customer relationships by liaising with appropriate departments to understand their needs and provide advice.
• Provide reliable information for the development and revision of the short-term operational schedules.
• Advise and provide recommendations for improvement opportunities in work processes and contribute to the implementation of endorsed improvement initiatives.
• Attend all planning and other relevant meetings.
• Assist with Mining and Engineering construction plans.
• Develop detailed task lists to ensure the pit standards are maintained.
• Develop detailed weekly plans which allocate resources (people, equipment, support etc) to specific areas which includes but is not limited to the following: preparation of drilling blocks, drilling activities, charging process, blasting, loading area prep, dumping area prep, road maintenance, quality control throughout.
• Review and adjust daily plans to align with the months budgeted figures.
• Provide data regularly to production management to act upon including operator performance, speed reports, non-adherence to plan/schedule, poor mining practices etc.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities    

• Advance level of SURPAC / XPAC usage
• Detailed understanding of mining asset capabilities and operational metrics.
• TALPAC / FPC ability and capability
• Experience and capability in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Projects applications
• Mechanical, verbal, numerical and technical aptitude

Behavioural Competencies    

• Approach work strategically
• Drive financial optimisation and efficiency
• Effective resource management
• Enthusiastically productive
• Empower and motivate others effectively
• Establish interpersonal tolerance and teamwork practices
• Incorporate new approaches in key change initiatives
• Produce effective business results
• Promote ideas with impact
• Show initiative and make things happen