Technical Services Manager – Underground Mining at Ascension Global Pty Ltd

This is a mine undergoing a turnaround of operations across all parts of the business, and this exciting 2 year fixed-term opportunity will be accountable for improving practices and transforming the operations, processes and systems. The right candidate thrives in transformation environments and builds a collaborative environment to engage stakeholders and build their understanding of operations, data and insight.

This role is designed to improve outcomes in 3 key areas while supporting the right balance of change for the company:

Responsibilities

• Analyse mining production information to understand areas for improvement
• Develop and execute production improvement programs
• Optimise the mine plan for high production and low costs
• Manage the budgeting and forecasting processes
• Identify key risks in the short and long term mine plans and mitigate risks with innovative and sustainable solutions
• Pit designs and short term LOM schedules
• Ensure blast design is consistent, minimising dilution whilst optimising fragmentation and geotechnical controls;
• Technical Support of Tailings Storage Facility construction as required
• Management of associated mining infrastructure engineering management e.g. stockpiles, waste dumps and water treatment systems
• Develop section budgets and participate in mine budgeting process

Skills and experience

• Degree qualification in Mining Engineering
• Extensive mine planning experience in underground and ideally open pit gold operations is critical for success
• Expertise in Surpac, MineSched and Blastware is an advantage
• Outstanding leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with a range of key internal stakeholders
• Commitment to training and development of team
• Strong safety focus
• A willingness to work in a multicultural environment – previous expatriate / african experience is highly desirable