Senior Mine Engineer

Kinross is a Canadian-based gold mining company with mines, projects and offices in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Russia, Ghana and Mauritania, employing approximately 9,300 people worldwide. Our core purpose is to lead the world in generating value through responsible mining.

Kinross is represented in Russia by Kupol and Dvoinoye operations, and offices in Anadyr, Bilibino, Pevek, Magadan and Moscow.

Anadyr and Bilibino offices provide administrative support to Kinross' operations in the northern region of Chukotka through interfacing with local and regional authorities, regulators and local communities. The Bilibino office also provides logistics support to the two Russia-based gold mines. Kupol and Dvoinoye high-grade gold and silver deposits are underground mines connected by a 100-kilometer all-season road built over the challenging tundra terrain. A critical role in logistics support for both Kupol and Dvoinoye is played by the company office in the port town of Pevek; this office is also responsible for interaction with port and customs authorities, and organizing delivery of received commodities to Kinross' Kupol and Dvoinoye operations over the 400-kilometer (250-mile) winter road.

Magadan regional office team supports Kinross' operations and projects in Russia through interaction with local, regional and state agencies and authorities, and cooperation with local communities. Moscow Representative Office is involved in active cooperation with the Russian governmental agencies, media, investment and industry associations by providing information on Kinross' activities in Russia and assisting Russian authorities in creating a favorable foreign investment climate in the mining sector.

All offices ensure seamless activity of the company's mine sites and maintain the social license to operate within the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Job Description

Increase the LOM cash flow profile of the mines through optimization of mine design and mine schedule and implementation of a rigorous process for performing trade-off studies and extensive scenario analysis for LOM plans.

Job Responsibilities

Develop and lead mine design process including:

• Optimization of existing mine designs to reduce development burden and dilution
• Development of optimized mine designs for new mining zones
• Trade off study of multiple mining methods when appropriate

Develop and lead mine scheduling processes to ensure:

• Quick iterative analysis of numerous schedule and design options to determine cashflow optimizing strategies
• Resource based scheduling with realistic productivity assumptions (calibrated against historical trend analysis)
• Schedule provides accurate equipment hour and labour hour outputs (calibrated against historical trend analysis)
• Output from mine schedule integrates efficiently with financial analysis tools to provide differential cash flow analysis during strategic process
• Useful and clearly organized output readily available from all schedule scenarios to provide scenario analysis and communicate strategic considerations to management

Define design parameters for narrow vein mining options to ensure:

• Compliance with regulatory requirements and ability to permit designs
• Safety of mining operations
• Coordination with operations team
• Conformance with equipment specifications

Lead strategic analysis of application of narrow vein mining including:

• Bottom up estimation of productivities
• Bottom up estimation of costs
• Scheduling of priorities within the region for narrow vein mining team
• Prepare cost benefit studies for purchase and usage of narrow vein equipment

Clean up and optimize existing mine planning processes, excel files, and systems
Provide support and analysis of mine plan driven costs for budgeting process
Provide support and analysis to demand planning process for underground mining
Train site engineers on effective usage of mining software and of excel
Provide one-off trade-off studies to support of strategic decision making process as needed

Ideal Candidate profile

• 10+ years of UG Mine Design and Mine Scheduling experience using a GMP
• Multiple years of mining engineering consulting experience (to provide a broad base of exposure to different mining methods and sites)
• Multiple years of on-site experience at a narrow vein mine site and a long hole open stoping site
• Experience in Open Pit mine design
• Experience working in ex-patriot roles
• Some form of formal education or training for financial analytics (MBA, CFA, Online Excel Courses, etc…)

Education and Experience

• University degree in mining engineering
• Formal professional engineering designation
• 10 or more years of experience in the mining industry
• 5 or more years of experience in underground mine design and scheduling
• Experience working in narrow vein mining (shrinkage, cut & fill, alimak, or others)
• Experience working with long hole open stope mining method (avoca or others)

Skills

• Expert user of design and scheduling modules in Datamine or Deswik software
• Expert excel user
• Ability to build clean, well-organized mining schedules and schedule comparisons
• Ability to build clean, well-organized and documented trade off studies and high level financial analysis
• Strong understanding of cash flow analysis
• Strong understanding of links between mine plan and key cost drivers
• Ability to budget key mining related direct costs