Underground Project Engineer

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Job Description :

• Our client is an inter­na­tio­nal mining company seeking an expe­rien­ced and quali­fied Underground Project Engineer for his exis­ting opera­tions in West Africa.
• Assist the Underground Feasibility Study Manager with plan­ning, sche­du­ling, coor­di­na­tion, moni­to­ring and mana­ge­ment of the various tasks requi­red to meet the Project sche­dule miles­tones and the execu­tion plan with the Alliance Partner. Guide and mentor the Underground Project Technical Officers.

Responsibilities :

• Planning and sche­du­ling of the under­ground projects and update project sche­dules as required.
• Monitoring of the progress on project milestones.
• Understand the stra­te­gic long-term mine plans for the projects with the overall stra­te­gic Life of Mine Plan.
• The deve­lop­ment of short-term plans that main­tains the long-term objectives.
• Weekly and end of month repor­ting on projects and depart­ment acti­vi­ties and attend meetings.
• Financial tracking of the project budgets and capi­tal expen­di­ture of the department.
• Development of cost models in Excel and Financial Analysis.
• Development, evalua­tion and revie­wing of mine desi­gns and produc­tion sche­du­ling with Alliance Partner.
• Development, review, moni­to­ring and mana­ge­ment of the execu­tion plan with the Alliance Partner.
• Technical audits and evalua­tion, inclu­ding mining methods, infra­struc­ture, desi­gns, sche­dules and financials.
• Provide mento­ring to the mining engi­neers and graduate mining engineers.
• Provide other duties as required.
• Assist with inte­gra­tion of under­ground rela­ted safety proto­cols, mining stan­dards and SOPs into the system.
• Generate weekly and monthly reports.
• Compilation of tech­ni­cal reports, NI43-101 compliant.
• Project mana­ge­ment docu­men­ta­tion and compi­la­tion of Project reports.
• Maintain and enforce the Safety and Health poli­cies at all times.

Requirements – Qualification and Skill :

• Degree in Mining Engineering.
• Further quali­fi­ca­tion in Finance/Business Management would be an advantage.
• Driver License required.
• 10 to 15 years mining rela­ted experience. 
  • 5 to 10 years working expe­rience in hard rock under­ground mining,
  • 5 years’ expe­rience in project planning,
  • 5 years’ expe­rience in mine plan­ning, sche­du­ling and risk assessment,
  • 3 years’ expe­rience in budgeting.
• A good know­ledge of the mine­ral repor­ting codes, inclu­ding the NI43-101.
• Cost model­ling, Technical Report writing, Computer Literacy.
• MS Office – Intermediate, Excel – Advanced, MS project – Advanced.
• Competent with mining and sche­du­ling soft­ware, i.e. Surpac, Datamine, Deswik, etc.