Chief Mining Engineer at Newmont Corporation

About The Job

About This Role:

• To direct underground mining engineering and technical personnel and coordinate major and complex operating requirements with technical plans and activities.

In This Role You Will
Mining Production:  

• Prepare, review, and evaluate reserves, mine designs, mine plans, ore control, project feasibility and productivity studies.
• Ensure that the site mining operations are planned and scheduled in a manner that maximizes the value of the resource whilst considering safety, business risk and market demand.
• Oversee underground mine design and optimization, includes development and stopping.

Strategic Planning:

• Prepare strategic plan for the underground operations that optimizes financial results and achieves site goals and objectives.
• Coordinate site planning; and participates in regional and corporate planning.

Technical Services Management:

• Manage all Underground Mine Technical Service activities to achieve objectives with respect to safety,
• production and costs.
• Provide staff development and act as mentor to junior mining engineers.
• Coordinate work of Mine Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Survey and Technical Applications staff.
• Develop, monitor, and coordinate a team of mining staff professionals.

Safety Health and Environment:

• Ensure Underground safety objectives and standards are achieved, and that the operation is in compliance with safety and environmental laws.
• Participate in Underground risk assessment and risk mitigation plans.
• Participate and contribute to safe practice and environmental awareness.
• Ensure identification of potential hazards and that action is appropriately taken.
• Ensure maintenance of a high standard of efficiency, safety, and effectiveness.
• Raise, discuss and ensure the resolution of safety issues at regular meetings.

Financial Planning and Management:

• Develop Underground production budgets and provides technical resources to enable those budgets to be met or exceeded.
• Oversee short term and long-term production scheduling, budgeting, analysis and control of costs, and cutoff grades.
• Manage Underground planning and budgeting efforts to achieve optimal financial results.
• Monitor reconciliation of block model to actual production and predicted to actual equipment requirements and take corrective action where necessary.
• Oversee production accounting, administration of truck dispatching systems, stockpile inventory accounting, mine equipment studies, blast pattern design, productivity analyses / improvement studies, compilation, and analysis of technical data.

Continuous Improvement:

• Investigate technology improvements and provide strategic direction to the mining operations as to how and when new technologies can be used.
• Participate in the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement and cost reduction.
• Drive the safe, environmentally responsible, efficient, and cost-effective operation of the Mine Engineering Department while creating a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Reporting:

• Prepare departmental statements and reports timely and accurately to meet Newmont’s requirements, policies, and quality standards.
• Preparation of statutory reports and statements.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering.
• Ability to obtain MINCOM Underground Mine Manager certification.

Technical Skills:

• Ability to visualize and communicate mine designs using specialized mine design software.
• Proven leadership and strong negotiation skills.
• Advanced level of technical communications, personal interaction, and presentations skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other departments.
• Communicating in multiple layers.

Experience: 

• Minimum 12 years of experience in underground mining.
• In-depth experience in Mine Planning and Design, Mine Scheduling and Mine Operations at large mining sites.
• Minimum of 5 years supervising multi-disciplinary teams.
• Preferred a minimum of 2 years’ experience in underground mining operational time such as blasting, drilling, haulage and service crew works.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Proactive.
• Safety conscious.
• Takes initiative.
• Results driven.
• Attentive to detail.
• Accuracy.

Working Conditions:

• The position is located at the Ahafo South mine site.