Mine Planning Engineer (East Tennessee Mines)
- Employer
- Nyrstar
- Location
- Tennessee, USA
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Oct 4, 2020
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- Category
- Accounting, Engineering, Mining Production
- Work Term
- Permanent
- Work Load
- Full Time
- Language
- English
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MAJOR RESPONSIBILTIES AND DUTIES OF JOB HOLDER
Safety, Health & Environment:
Function/ Production:
Key (3-5) Business Challenges or Objectives of the Position for the Next 12 Months
REQUIRED EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS (formal certifications, etc.)
Essential:
Essential:
This is a full time position
Safety, Health & Environment:
- Promote and demonstrate safe behavior at all times
- Comply with the site's standards and procedures in SHEC
- Demonstrate effective performance in achieving agreed SHEC goals in support of the department, site and company standards
- Demonstrates leadership in SHEC through personal behaviors and conversations, and report all SHEC incidents and participate in SHEC initiatives
- Take responsibility for the safety of all personnel, including yourself, at Nyrstar Tennessee Mines
- Develops plans and schedules in consideration of Statutory requirements
Function/ Production:
- Providing and coordinating effective short term plans and schedules.
- Coordinate with Mine Operations to generate required tonnage and grade.
- Ensuring effectiveness and safe productivity of the mine.
- Monitoring actual performance against targets and taking corrective action to maintain targets.
- Collect and analyze daily production data.
- Carry out engineering projects as required.
- Improving Mine standards, providing safe, timely, efficient and cost-effective designs for production stopping.
- Support Mine and Survey with required development plans and design commentaries for planned stopes.
- Provide planning and design of auxiliary services, such as egress, ventilation, electrical, drainage, water supply, compressed air.
- Prepare and maintain explosives forecasting system Optimize development design and scheduled rates of advance to enable achievement of the annual plan.
- Complete Production Schedules and identify the major constraints and possible solutions.
- Monitor performance of production operations and identify areas of improvement.
- Keeping up to date with new developments in techniques and data processing.
- Reviewing and implementing new techniques and procedures that will streamline the process
- Adjusting mine designs when required.
- Acquisition of assets / consumables in liaison with both Mine Superintendent and Purchasing Section.
- Support the team to build requisite structures.
- Work with the team to ensure the long term viability of the team.
- Support team members in their personal development.
- Proactively seeks to understand the roles and the needs of other team members.
- Work collaboratively with mine production and geology departments and assist other functional areas to achieve their objectives.
- Actively participate in team discussions and decisions.
- Ensure a cost conscious culture is practiced by team members.
- Provide specialist technical advice to the team in areas of competence.
- Work with the team to seek options and to anticipate future requirements related to all accountabilities associated with this role.
Key (3-5) Business Challenges or Objectives of the Position for the Next 12 Months
- Develop processes that realize full potential of available resources.
- Create and Maintain integrated project and production forecasts.
- Conduct project management activities in support of mine operations.
REQUIRED EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS (formal certifications, etc.)
Essential:
- BS degree in Mining Engineering or related discipline
- 4-6 years' experience in Mine Planning
- Experience using Vulcan Software and/or Deswik Software
- Experience in underground mining operations.
Essential:
- Self-motivated, energetic and proactive.
- High level of initiative, resourcefulness and personal organization.
- Understanding of underground mine design and mine design software.
- Working knowledge of practical ventilation and ventilation simulation (VnetPC preferred).
- Working knowledge of practical rock mechanics/roof control techniques for shallow dipping ore bodies.
- Working knowledge of mine electrical power systems & pumping systems.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Project, and Word. (Access or other data base programs beneficial).
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD required.
- Good time management and prioritization skills.
- Results driven achiever with exemplary planning and organization skills.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Sound methods and approaches to persuade, convince or influence others.
This is a full time position
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