Mine Planning Engineer (Central Africa)

Reference: 4272703NDS
Salary: negotiable
Start: ASAP

• To manage the on-site mine planning function to produce quality and realistic plans up to year horizon and to liaise with the long-term planning function, to ensure integration of plans at all levels
• Focus on planning for up to 5 yeas conducted onsite
• Long term planning conducted offsite
• Ensure communication, integration and linkage between the on-mine planning and the long-term planning work done offsite

Responsibilities

• Formalise mine planning processes in line with protocols
• Coordinate development of mine planning protocols
• Coordinate on mine planning cycle and drive its development
• Liaise with mining and engineering readiness planning
• Define planning sequences and min readiness scheduling
• Define planning resources and responsibilities
• Implement best practice technologies for planning (surpac) ensure training and development of planning competency
• Liaise with metallurgy to define inter dependencies between mien plan and plant performance
• Look for optimisation opportunities of plans, factors and processes
• Liaise with long term planning, regional exploration and evaluation
• Conduct techno economic trade off studies
• Implement 5 year planning horizon
• Manage 1- 2 year planning processes
• Implement 3-6 month rolling plan
• Manage short term planning processes
• Implement stockpiling strategy, incorporate in mien plans and conduct regular reviews
• Optimise grade profiles through cut-off grade policy
• Ensure integration of planning levels

Requirements

• BSc in mine engineering
• GDE or post grad qualification desired
• Mine surveying qualifications desirable
• Mine managers certificate desirable
• Mine planning software knowledge: surpac, whittle, gemcom
• Mine scheduling, open-pit design , mine planning economics
• Cut-off grade application
• Management skills
• Reporting to the Manager MRM