Senior Mining Engineer II at Newmont Corporation

About The Job

About This Role

• Do you enjoy seeking out and identifying value add opportunities in the mine planning process at regional and site levels?
• Are you able to build and maintain strong communications network with planning peers, Mine Managers and other stakeholders?
• Do you have experience in identifying different ore deposits for gold and multi-element base metals?
• Join the Long-Term Planning team as Senior Engineer – Long-Term Planning (LTP) where you will be responsible for improving operational and project outcomes by enhancing mine productivity and costing technical expertise and applying industry leading tools and approaches.

In This Role You Will
Health, Safety and Environment:

• Deliver own prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services, by applying Newmont’s Health, Safety and Environment systems, policies and protocols.
• Accept personal responsibility for the health and safety of all Mine Engineers under or assigned to his/her supervision.
• Meet LTP objectives and conform to Newmont mining standards, geotechnical and operational physical standards to promote safe mining operations within legislative guidelines.
• Oversee compliance with all relevant legal, environmental and occupational health, safety and risk management standards and best practices.

Mine Planning:

• Develop Life of Mine (LOM) Strategic plan to safely, efficiently and cost effectively determine the future mining feasibilities of the Africa Region by overseeing:
• LOM Scheduling (mining sequencing)
• LOM Metal Process Blending
• LOM Cost Modeling with Xeras
• Provide technical expertise to all Mine Planning teams in the region to enable full optimization of mining operations.
• Determine the final numbers of the LOM Mine plan.
• Produce the high-level LOM Cost model.
• Determine the final outputs of the LOM cost model.
• Manage mine planning resources and software to deliver business section targets.
• Develop the stockpile strategy plan.
• Communicate to the mine site and wider region the developed LOM scenario plan mining assumptions and LOM mining plan and costs.
• Liaise with the Site planning team to ensure plans are aligned to overall site strategies.

Tool Management:

• Initiate pit optimization and ensure alignment with current site parameters.
• Utilize the MineSight pit expansion tool to design or redesign/modify pits, dumps and stockpiles.

Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with relevant Subject Matter Experts at Global Headquarters to leverage best practices into LTP approach.
• Collaborate with Site and Regional Finance and Business Planning teams, and S&ER leadership to adequately fulfil scenario planning and projects objectives.
• Facilitate external stakeholder requests to enable smooth and efficient running of mine planning processes to address and resolve issues promptly.

People:

• Supervise allocated staff member(s) by;
• Provide development and mentoring role to mining engineers based at the operations.
• Visit sites and facilitate communication between sites engineers; assisting with personal career planning.
• Recommend further/relevant training courses and development actions.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

• Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations)
• Bachelors’ degree in Mine Engineering.

Additional Knowledge:

• Experience in strategic and long term mine planning, production support, mine operations and design in large and diversified mine sites, with a preference for experience in conventional hard rock Gold open pit.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence and a high level of cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills (oral, written, listening).
• Self-starter and strong facilitation and presentation skills.
• Experience in operations with complex multi mine, multi process situations preferable and knowledge of mine methods, mine design, production scheduling (strategic and tactical), equipment selection, reserve estimation and economic evaluations.
• High level of competence in the use of mine planning software, including optimization techniques and experience with mine design and scheduling packages from Deswik, Geovia Whittle, MineSight, or Maptek.
• Knowledge of unit costing and financial modelling methods for resource and reserve analysis and the use and manipulation of project financial models. Experience with Xeras cost estimating tool a plus.
• Knowledge of exploration methods, mineral inventory estimates and resource estimation.
• Strong problem solving and 3D visualization skills.

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 -8 years’ experience in a Surface Mining field within a large-scale Open Pit mining environment.
• Advanced Mine Planning experience in a range of mining applications.
• Extensive site-mine planning experience in multi-mine, multi-process situations.
• Strong experience in Project Evaluation.

Technical Skills:

• Strong technical acumen in survey equipment, systems and software.
• Sound computer literacy skills - MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), MS Project, Mine Planning/surveying systems – CAD based mine design applications (i.e. Minesight, SURPAC and Minesched.
• Strong report writing skills.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Accuracy.
• Analytical.
• Detail focused.
• Quality oriented.
• Reliable.
• Safety conscious.
• Team player.

Working Conditions:

• The position is nominally located at the Regional office in Accra and will require travel nationally.
• The incumbent will be required to visit mining and processing areas, rough terrain or exploration sites.