Rehabilitation & Waste Dump Design Engineer Sishen, Northern Cape at De Beers Group

Job Description:

As our Rehabilitation & Waste Dump Design Engineer some of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Plan waste dumps (both from a design and scheduling perspective) to ensure all planning horizons have sufficient dumping and stockpiling capacity (from the day to day execution to the LoM plan horizon).
• Measure operational compliance to the dump plan (both dump to design and dump to schedule)
• Ensure dump designs are compliant with all the relevant KIO standards (including but not limited to mining, geotechnical, operational and planning standards)
• Ensure the dump and stockpile locations (along with their haul routes) are continuously reviewed and optimized to ensure shortest possible haul routes are always used
• Develop a master rehabilitation dump plan and ensure the rehabilitation plan is executed as per schedule
• The master rehabilitation plan consists of the 5Yr rolling concurrent rehabilitation plan, the immediate and final closure liability estimates and planning.
• Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance to statutory requirements is met. 
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legal, environmental, occupational health and safety and risk management standards and best practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and asset optimization 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.
• Manage internal and external relations, to ensure that business needs are met.
• Manage a safe and healthy work environment where workers and contractor can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
• Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance to statutory requirements is met.

Qualifications:

• BEng/BSC or BTech – Mining Engineering 
• Driver’s License: Code B (Light Vehicle)
• 4 Years’ operational experience in an Open Pit Mining environment of which at least 3 years should have been in a planning capacity that involved designing and scheduling.
• Good understanding of the mine value chain and affected stakeholders.
• OPMS/RPM & Deswik planning software experience would be advantageous.