Mine Planning Engineer at Tharisa

Purpose of Role

The Mine Planning Engineer will be responsible to oversee and produce mining plans for the Week and short-term planning window. Collaborate with the operational team and gather inputs information from other MRM disciplines to produce the short-term planning.

Role Context

• Deliver mine planning reports and minutes of all mine-planning activities
• Minutes of all mine planning functions, meetings and pit visits
• Delivery of quality plans report within time and with cost effectiveness
• Delivery of pit balanced ore-mix-flow and run-of-mine stockpiles build up to meet and exceed both volume and grades plant feed expectations/budget
• Reconciliations of actual performance versus planning horizon (target) with minimum 85% compliance achievement; Enhance the use of planning software use
• Pits visit to ensure the plan is practical and considerate of physical pit-conditions
• Deliver balanced ore-path and floor stock periodic plans
• Reconciliation information and inputs into the reconciliation process. Reconcile actual performance against planning targets and exceed 85% compliance
• Compliance to the safety, Rock engineering and legal requirements of the planning process
• Oversee and produce elements of the WOP & STP containing the following:
  • Required grade per ore type and the optimum ore mix mined and delivered to ROM
  • A bench-prep-, drilling-, blasting- and load & haul schedule once a week for the WOP and Monthly for the STP and 3-month STP purposes
  • Alignment between the schedules and between the WOP, STP and the practical execution is expected to receive enormous focus
• The schedule will also include RC drilling planning and design of accesses and stockpile levels management
• Conduct frequent pit visit and daily liaison with the mine operations team to ensure the planning activities aligned with the status in the pit
• Identify system, process improvements within the WOP and STP planning horizons, and implement the approved initiatives
• Alignment of the MTP and STP
• Mining access planning designs
• Deliver plans within time and with cost effectiveness
• SR achievement deployment
• Drive the alignment and continuity of the MTP to the STP and to the WOP
• Delivery of pit balanced ore-mix-flow and run-of-mine stockpiles build-up to meet and exceed both volume and grades plant feed expectations or budget
• Destination dump plan; Sell the mine plan to the production and get collaboration.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• A BSc/BEng degree or a diploma in Mining Engineering will be considered essential
• A Rock Breakers Certificate / Blasting Certificate / Mine overseer’s certificate of competency or another mining qualification will be advantageous

Job specific experience:

• 12 years in the mining industry of which a minimum of 8 years in the mine planning/technical environment and 4 years on an open mine is essential
• Specialist software knowledge and application skill (both mine design and scheduling) with packages specializing in the short-term space (between 3 months and one-week periods) will be considered essential
• Operational experience in the capacity of a pit superintendent or similar roles will be considered advantageous
• Experience of supervising teams in both a technical and / or operational capacity will be considered an advantage
• Strong 3D Analytical thinking and spatial perception ability.