Senior Planning Engineer at Anglo American

Job Description:

As a Senior Planning Engineer, you will create a conceptual overview of the Mine Extraction Strategies (MES) options for each site as guided by the Mining Engineering Principal.

Some of your duties will include:

• Schedule a Long-Term Plan based on the approved mine extraction strategy and MDC options as approved by the PMC
• Review the scheduled LTP in collaboration to ensure that the expected outcomes are achieved
• Embed and further optimize the Mine Design Criteria (MDC) in the developed of long-term plans (LTP) for each of the site investment centres
• Establish the specification of the production process, duration of activities and the operating parameters in the LTP
• Participate in the evaluation and approval of the preferred mine extraction strategy option for each site
• Support the Medium-Term Planning (MTP) process by aligning the MTP Mining Engineering Principal to the mine extraction strategy, MDC and LTP
• Implement management processes for employee & contractor management within work area
• Develop and implement KPIs and analyse available data on the discipline safety and address all deficiencies by developing implementation plans on a discipline level

This role will be based at our corporate office at a band 6 reporting to the Technical Head of Mining.

Qualifications:

• B. Tech or Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering Qualification

Experience:

• Experience in Risk management techniques, critical controls, and organization model design / systems leadership exposure
• Experience in Open Cast/ Conventional or Mechanised mining
• Extensive project management experience
• Experience in identification of new work methods to ensure productive and safe work and achieve plans
• Excellent financial acumen

Closing Date: 21st, June 2022