Description

• Lead the long-term strategy for technical services, ensuring alignment with overall strategy. Formulate intermediate and short-term tactical plans to drive strategic goals and maximize operational efficiencies and profitability. Improve the technical services team’s capability, customer delivery, stakeholder, and employee satisfaction.

Duties

• Develop practical designs, strategies, and solutions to provide a safe, efficient, and productive mining environment.
• Coordinate the mine’s annual budget and quarterly forecasting to meet stakeholder expectations;
• Identify company risks and opportunities, set short- and long-term goals
• Oversee yearly Mineral Resources and Reserves Statement reporting.
• Assess technical soundness, economic viability, fatal defects, hazards, and opportunities.
• Perform due diligence on new ore deposits, deposit expansions, mining process changes, and mine life extension schemes.
• Annual strategic business plan oversight and risk assessment.
• Provide leadership and technical support in geotechnical ventilation, mine planning, survey, and geology.
• Sets, monitors, and manages function and direct report performance.
• Monitor, adapt, and develop KPIs to achieve goals.
• Ensure the content and recovery of mined and processed ore for budgetary purposes.
• Plan and manage mining operations and finances.
• Implement excellent business practices and rules that match with the organization’s goals.
• Ensure compliance with Mine Planning QA/QC processes and plan audits.
• Develop a planning review procedure to ensure performance is understood and changes are made. Identify plan obtainment risks and improvements with Operations.
• Ensure a complete and successful succession management strategy for the function. Identify succession role requirements and high potential individuals.
• Supervisor may assign additional duties.

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Experience, education, and key skills

• Bachelor’s/in Master’s Mining Engineering or equivalent.
• Diplomas Geology or mining degree (preferably Masters level qualification).
• Minimum 15 years of “hands-on” technical and operational experience in open pit and underground mines.
• Knowledge of underground mining technologies and applications, open pit mining operations, planning & scheduling, geotechnical and associated subjects.
• 3D modeling software, tools, and procedures for mine planning, design, engineering, and geology.
• Metallurgical and mineral processing knowledge are pluses.
• Good knowledge of numerical modeling tools like DIPS, UNWEDGE, MAP3D and PHASE2.
• Advanced Whittle or comparable pit optimization software skills and/or ore body and resource modeling experience.
• Mine Rescue and First Aid certifications desired.
• Analytical and planning skills to predict technical obstacles.
• Budgeting, planning, scheduling, and financial (cost) management experience needed.
• Production and cost targets met.
• Excellent organizational and time management, especially meeting deadlines.
• MS Office proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, MS Project)
• Leadership, people management, and interpersonal abilities required.

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