Senior Scheduling Engineer - Musina at De Beers Group

Key Responsibilities Include but no limited to:

• Demonstrate underground trackless mining technical and conceptual excellence in anticipating problems and guiding the team to deliver agreed departmental and business goals to ensure the value of the business is maintained or improved.
• Responsible for delivering the integrated weekly 7 – 21 day rolling schedule to enable the Venetia Underground Project to achieve and surpass expectations for planning, reporting, and execution.
• Co-ordinate all relevant contractors and work groups to produce quality draft Weekly 7-21 Rolling Schedules in accordance with appropriate timeframes.
• Optimise and incorporate all VUP draft 7-21 RS into a fully integrated VUP 7-21 Rolling Schedule that enables the achievement of 3-month rolling schedule.
• Mine Production monitoring and reporting on performance to plan and definition of actions for correction of variances to plan.
• Monitoring and reporting of the mining contractor compliance to plan & prompt instruction of corrective actions to return to plan. Chair weekly retrospective on previous weeks performance and action items with clear dates and responsibilities to recover lost opportunities or maintain gains achieved.
• Monitors Contractor compliance to plan and design and assists and guides the Underground Mining Superintendents (Mine Overseer’s) in defining and issuing clear instructions to the Mining Contractor to ensure corrective actions are promptly executed.
• Coordination and scheduling of underground construction, engineering to ensure that projects are planned and executed in such a manner as to not negatively impact production and development.
• Analysis of mining and automation data to identify and pursue opportunities for continuous improvement and productivity uplift including application of Short Interval Control.
• Input into the wet season management plan and associated infrastructure.
• Coordination and quality assurance of underground project work to ensure that projects are planned and executed in such a manner as to not negatively impact production and development.
• Working closely with interdepartmental personnel initiating, planning, and implementing strategies to maximise operational efficiency.

Qualifications:

Qualifications & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or other relevant technical qualification.
• Valid EB/Code 8 Drivers License

Role-specific Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• Previous operational / technical experience within a modern underground trackless mining operation – at least 3 years in underground hard rock mining highly regarded.
• Experience in short/medium term planning in underground operations is desirable.
• Experience in an Operational Leadership role (Shift Boss, Miner) is not essential but would be highly regarded.
• Experience in driving best practices through your department and into the business.
• Track record in driving continuous improvement.
• Software experience with Micro Soft Excel, Word and PowerPoint is a requirement.
• Experience in mine planning design software such as Deswik, Vulcan and procurement enablers, SAP are highly desirable, but this will not be a barrier for a strong applicant.