Mining Engineer Open Pit at Anglo American

Job Description
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Ensure that open pit medium-term mine plans and designs are such that the execution plans support & adhere to safety regulations and environmental requirements.
• Interpret and understand the mine strategy and LoA plan to inform and provide medium term plans and Mine Activity Designs (MAD) to meet the requirements of the operation.
• Support the Chief Mine Planner to deliver business requirements.
• Review and optimise medium-term mine plans to ensure effective and efficient extraction sequences and strategies aligned to available site resources and meeting technical constraints of the mine.
• Integrate the mine specific production processes, activity durations & operational performances into the mine planning, forecasting and budget processes.
• Develop appropriately detailed mine plans and outputs, presentations, and reports to ensure the mine, the business and Group have required information, intelligence to meet business requirements.
• Recommend appropriate mining equipment and machinery based on the mine plan’s requirements and operational effectiveness to ensure the mine is designed and configured to achieve Best Practice performance and support a pathway to P950 using AAOM Principles.
• Provide and maintain a high level of proficiency and skill in mine design and optimisation software packages.
• Support the Chief Mine Planner with maintaining planning standards and audits compliance.
• Review the scheduled short-medium term open pit plans in collaboration with the Section Manager: Operational Planning and Business Unit teams to ensure that Annual and Quarterly plans are achievable.
• Stay updated on mining industry trends, technologies, and best practices toward mine design, technical and planning approaches to relevant mining method.
• Seek opportunities to enhance mine planning processes and operational efficiency.
• Monitor the quality, effectiveness, and execution of medium term mine plans to ensure constant improvement in quality and correctness of medium term and BP planning outputs.
• Ability to apply basic theory of constraints thinking with regards to mining value chain and identify bottlenecks.
• Determining new production parameters to achieve the business throughput targets (tonnes and ounces).
• Review comprehensive project evaluations and project planning.
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement, and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.
• Ensure compliance to Anglo American internal and external compliance (legislative, regulatory, permitting requirements.
• This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to the Chief Mine Planner.

Qualifications

• Degree in B.Eng. Mining/B.Sc
• Experience, Knowledge and Skills
• More than 5 years relevant experience
• Site based mining engineering experience in operations
• Proficient knowledge in mine planning and superior developed understanding of mining systems and technical enablers, with a track record of developing and successfully implementing strategies.
• Extensive operational, technical and mine planning experience that demonstrates successful application of mining engineering fundamentals.
• Proficiency in applying practical mining skills and experience into mine planning intelligence, solutions and initiatives to enhance value and maximise delivery effectiveness in our open pit mines
• Software Proficiency in Deswik (CAD, Sched & LHS) or other relevant Open Pit Planning & Scheduling packages
• Demonstrated ability to function in a high performance and agile environment with cross-functional stakeholders

Additional Information

• Valid EB/Code 08 driver’s licence
• Medical certificate of fitness
• There could be ad hoc requirements from time to time including need to travel.