Senior Underground Short Term Planning Engineer at Newmont Mining Corporation

ABOUT THIS ROLE:

• The role delivers the 12 weekly rolling mine plan and the quarterly mine plan as well as supervise the short-term weekly scheduling in accordance with the Business Plan and the Life of Mine (LOM) resource/reserve pipeline to enable the underground operations to carry out safe production.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

Mine Planning:

• Develop the 12-week mining schedule with input from all technical and operational stakeholders ensuring alignment to the annual budget.
• Support to generate a yearly forecast schedule every 3 months and provide recommendations to achieve compliance to the budget.
• Supervise the development of the weekly schedule and ensure alignment to the 12-week plan.
• Gather sub departments information to support 12-week scheduling.
• Contribute to resource and reserve estimation through cutoff grade calculation, stope optimimsation analysis and costing.
• Contribute to annual budgeting activities in relation to mine production.
• Ensure the mining physicals against budget and forecast are tracked and validated for reporting requirements.
• Establish, implement, and maintain the drill and blast engineering processes, standards and procedures.

Data Management and Reporting:

• Ensure the data integrity of Pitram/dispatch reporting on a daily, weekly, monthly basis and productive tables.
• Supervise the design and development of dispatch processes.
• Manage the overall operation of mine dispatch.
• Generate the 12-week schedule booklets for the technical services and operations teams.
• Ensure creation of quality weekly reports for underground management team.
• Create quality monthly reports for site management team.

Safety Health and Environment: 

• Participate and contribute to safe practice and environmental awareness.
• Actively participate in all Newmont Ghana safety and environmental systems and initiatives.
• Demonstrate personal commitment regarding safety and environmental practices.

Continuous Improvement:

• Recommend improvement activities to achieve and exceed KPI’s.

Communication: 

• Chairs the monthly quarterly pre-commitment and commitment meetings which include tracking all outstanding tasks.
• Support in chairing the daily and weekly production meetings.
• Liaise with Mine Foreman on execution of monthly plan which includes underground mine visit prior to 3 months pre-commitment meeting.

Staff and Contract Management:

• Ensure staff resources are maximized; implement and monitor performance and individual development plans for all direct reports, with staff members undertaking appropriate training and development so they are skilled to perform allocated duties efficiently.
• Retain and develop key personnel with adequate succession planning in place for all roles.

YOUR TRAINING, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE CHECKLIST:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Tertiary Qualification in Mine Engineering.

Additional Knowledge:

• An advanced degree in Mine Engineering and/or a Mine Foreman Certificate of Competency from the inspectorate division of Minerals Commission, Ghana is a plus.

Technical Skills:

• Proficient in the use of the design software (DESWIK).
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.

Experience: 

• 7 years working experience in an underground mining environment.
• A minimum of 2 years underground mining operational time in blasting, drilling, haulage and service crew works.
• Preferred previous experience in ventilation and drill and blast engineering.
• Preferred experience in supervising a scheduling engineering team.

Behavioral Attributes:

• Deadline driven.
• Safety conscious.
• Takes initiative.
• Pro-active.
• Attentive to detail.
• Works under pressure.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Combination of office and underground mining conditions.
• Moist wet surfaces with section of continuous waterfall.
• Potential for extreme dust particles and high heat/humidity.
• Noise exposure within the requirements for earplugs or/and earmuffs.
• Dark environment which requires personal attachment of lit head gear.
• Potential for seismic activity underground.
• Underground conditions include steep decline with section of uneven terrain.
• Unventilated areas with asphyxiating gaseous environments.
• Working with corrosive chemicals.