Mining Engineer (Medium Term Planning)
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Engineering · Brisbane, QLD, Australia · Full-Time · Discussed at interview · Visa: Employer sponsored
Deep below the surface in Queensland, an underground zinc-lead-silver operation with a long mine life is recruiting a permanent Mining Engineer for medium term planning. Its sequence is complicated, with several operating fronts, and development, stoping, ventilation, backfill, infrastructure and services all feed into how ready production is.
The engineer creates, maintains and keeps improving the plans and schedules that support production and development targets. Where you work is flexible: Brisbane based, FIFO to the mine or residential at the mine. Visa sponsorship is available for suitably qualified candidates.
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Key Responsibilities
- Create and look after mine plans and schedules that support production and development targets, and keep improving them
- Turn Life-of-Mine and long-term strategy into realistic medium-term mining sequences
- Optimise how stopes are extracted and when development happens, while keeping ventilation and infrastructure ready in step
- Prepare medium-term sequences ready to be broken down into short term plans
Requirements & Eligibility
- Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or a related subject
- Demonstrated underground hard rock mining background
- Preferably some exposure to mine planning, scheduling or technical services roles
- Hands-on work with mine planning and design software (e.g. Deswik, Surpac or equivalent) for development planning, stope sequencing and schedule analysis
- Solid grasp of underground mining methods, development needs and how production is sequenced
- Able to fold geological, geotechnical, ventilation and operational limits into workable mine plans
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for weighing planning risks, spotting constraints and finding practical solutions
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