Senior Mine Planning Engineer

Senior Mine Planning Engineer

Job no: 525447
Work type: Permanent, Full time
Location: Osborne Park
Categories: Engineering

MinRes can offer you!

• Play a key part in supporting MinRes' rapidly growing position in the division and be part of the growth
• We invest in your career, with a focus on leadership, upskilling, training and development programs
• Live Your Best Life! Our benefits offer you access to deals, support and discounts to help you unlock the important things in Life - Health, Family, Recreation and Your Future with MinRes

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Principal Mining Engineer - LoM Planning, you will develop mine plans across various time horizons from 5 year through to Life of Mine, supporting sustaining project studies for MinRes' iron ore operations.

You will engage with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure business-wide objectives and constraints are embedded into long-term planning outcomes.

Working across corporate offices and in close collaboration with operations, Technical Services and the design and construction teams. You will play a key role in unlocking value through mine life extension, greenfields projects and high quality mine closure planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain mining models from first principles, reflecting updated resource knowledge, extraction assumptions, sensitivity analysis and operational performance
• Conduct pit optimisations and pit shell selections to maximise strategic value
• Produce designs for ultimate pits, stages, waste dumps and mine layouts to support strategic level mine planning
• Engage with key stakeholders across the business to develop a thorough understanding of objectives and constraints that inform strategic planning assumptions and decisions
• Synthesise and process data to develop useable, repeatable assumptions for input into strategic mine plans
• Scope, design and integrate rehabilitation and closure planning into greenfields and project execution phases
• Undertake scenario and project analysis to support approvals, reserve reporting and life extension opportunities
• Develop and adjust mine layouts in response to strategic risks and opportunities, including detail to support primary and secondary mining approvals and efficient mine closure

What is Required:

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or related discipline
• Extensive experience in operational mining engineering or strategic mine planning roles highly regarded
• Advanced skills in mine planning software (Vulcan, Surpac, Minemax, Alastri suite of programs) with advanced skills in MS Office, Power BI and GIS tools highly regarded
• Experience within bulk commodity supply chains and multiple commodities and/or multiple processing environments
• Experience in a production analysis and improvement role highly regarded
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing demands to meet targets
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a collaborative and agile mindset

About Mineral Resources

MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX's best-performing companies since listing in 2006.

Our headquarters at 20 Walters Drive sets a new standard for workplace wellness. World class facilities include a café, restaurant, commercial gym, crèche, daycare and health centre, including GP.

At MinRes, the future's bright. Be part of our next chapter.

Advertised: 12 Jun 2026 W. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 03 Jul 2026 W. Australia Standard Time

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