Senior Mine Engineer (Underground)
Listing reference: b2gld_000059
Listing status: Closed
Apply by: 13 December 2021
Position summary
Industry: Mining & Quarrying
Job category: Other: Mining
Location: Otjiwarongo
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: N/A
EE position: No
Introduction
Provide mine engineering and planning support to the underground operation to ensure optimal production and backfilling operations.
Job description
- Manage the underground development and production contractors, ensuring that production, safety and quality targets are achieved
- Conduct conceptual mining expansion studies and lead approved projects to execution
- Conduct economic analyses and trade off studies of different schedules and operating scenarios
- Oversee and coordinate Short, Medium and Long Term Planning functions
- Manage underground production and construction related projects
- Oversee longhole stope designs, stope optimisation and blast ring designs, to ensure efficient and optimal reserve extraction
- Manage the underground mine planning database
- Analyse production data to identify opportunities for improvement
- Reconcile actual excavations with design, identifying deviations and initiatives to improve
- Ensure compliance to all B2Gold Safety, Health and Environmental policies and procedures
Minimum requirements
- Grade 12
- Degree in Mining Engineering (B. Eng.) (NQF Level 7)
- Minimum 7 years of experience as a mine engineer in a mechanized hard-rock underground mine with at least 3 years supervisory experience
- Strong knowledge, expertise and understanding of underground mining techniques, long hole open stoping and backfill operations
- Valid Code B driver’s license
- Excellent knowledge of mine design software: MineSight, Deswik, Vulcan, Mine 2-4d, EPS Scheduler, etc.