Role Details:

The Underground Planning Engineer will be responsible for facilitating the safe and optimal extraction of gold from underground mining operations. In compliance with site environmental and safety standards, you will be responsible for all mining aspects, including delivering detailed mine plans and designs required to meet short-, medium- and long-term mine plan.

This is an on-site position and is offered on a residential basis in the regional WA in the Kalgoorlie area. Relocation assistance available.

About the role:

Assist in the preparation of medium- and long-term plans and forecasts

Prepare underground design optimisation, level and stope designs, and level extraction notes

Ensure mine plans are completed, considering ventilation, infrastructure, and paste fill requirements

Prepare the 3-month rolling schedule and report on end-of-month compliance to the plan

Assist in briefing production personnel on new stopes being developed and liaise with Supervisors

Maintain a medium-term plan in the final design stage, and long-term plan in the preliminary design stage in Deswik

Liaise with the Production Engineers for short-term schedule implementation.

About you:

Possess a tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or a related discipline

Proven underground engineering experience, with exposure to all production phases, preferably gold

Experience in mentoring and developing the capability of junior and graduate engineers

Previous exposure to Microsoft Office, Deswik CAD experience is an advantage

Displayed exposure to Deswik Scheduler and Ventsim is desirable

Hold a valid manual driver's licence.