Tailings Engineer at Hatch

• This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to help build a new capability from the ground up, influence industry-leading projects, and work alongside experts renowned for innovation and technical excellence.
• If you're passionate about tailings engineering, dam safety, water management, mine waste solutions, or sustainable mining practices, we want to hear from you.
• Build the future of tailings. Build your legacy. Join Hatch.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Tailings Practice Leader, AIM, you will be required to:

• Prepare engineering calculations, writing technical reports and supervising designers in the development of engineering deliverables.
• Contribute to technical packages or scopes for large tailings and mine waste management projects at pre-feasibility to detailed design levels of definition.
• Work in multi-disciplinary teams to develop integrated tailings management solutions for our clients, including facility designs, tailings processing and slurry distribution studies.
• Undertake fieldwork and construction technical support for tailings facilities.
• Review and analyze technical data from clients using our proprietary Hatch Integrated Tailings Management (HITM) tool for monitoring data consolidation and GISTM compliance auditing.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Bachelor of Engineering Geology or Civil Engineering with some Geotechnical/ Tailings working experience.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Good proficiency in MS Office suite of tools including: Excel, Word, Powerpoint and working knowledge of MS Project.
• Ability to travel within Africa and the Middle East with a valid passport, permanent residency or approved visa to work in South Africa.

Preferred

• Post graduate experience in industrial civil projects for the mining and metals industry in Africa.
• Some knowledge of specialized geotechnical software and modeling tools relating to tailings design (i.e. InRoads, Muk3D, Civil3D, Geostudio and Plaxis).
• Works well in a team with exposure to large civil earthworks projects in remote areas.
• Some exposure to fieldwork and site construction experience for mine waste management projects.
• Some knowledge of local and international guidelines in tailings management.