Manager, Mining Engineering at Gold Fields Limited

Ref: SDS/TS01/FEB17
Department: Technical Services

Job Description

• The Mining Engineering Manager’s role is to provide the mining engineering capacity to the production function in order to ensure efficient execution of underground mining operations.
• The role’s primary focus is on underground mine design, operational planning and engineering integration.
• The scope of the role Includes leading and administration of the department.
• The incumbent will be responsible for the comprehensive medium- and short-term mine planning strategies and the production engineering function responsible for drill and blast design and QAQC (Quality Assurance, Quality Control).
• The role holder will also be responsible for the integration and direction of production and services functions to be performed in accordance with the overall mine plan.
• The incumbent is further responsible for ensuring effective cross-functional coordination between geotechnical, geology, mine planning, survey, engineering, backfill, contractors, mine support functions, construction, business Improvement and production and to ensure efficient and effective technical services are provided.
• A project management style coordination system is to be implemented for effective execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership and technical direction: Production (drill and blast, short-term planning and medium-term planning)
• Ensuring cross-functional coordination to support the overall operational performance objectives and SHEC standards
• Short- term scheduling: Development and approval of the monthly accepted plans, together with change management processes, and related administration, and daily compliance reporting . Section planning: Safe development and stope design; stops area layouts; concept extraction sequences; infrastructure planning; stope area notes; and reconciliation
• Medium-term planning: Development of a rolling 3-month plan updated monthly to incorporate latest changes, together with a monthly annual forecast
• Maintaining stope database and reconciliation
• Administration, and coordination of the departments within the scope of responsibility
• Production engineering: Drill and blast designs with associated QAQC processes required for efficient extraction of the ore-body, services infrastructure planning and coordination
• Overall coordination of productive capacity across functional disciplines, including business improvement projects Identifying and reacting to risks In terms of safety and productive output
• Developing systems to control and measure progress, compliance with plans and report deviations.

Requirements

• The appointee must be in possession of a degree in Mining Engineering and a Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency as wall as a postgraduate Business or Project Management qualification.
• He/she must also be a registered member of SAIMM or other relevant professional body.
• 10 years’ experience in the mining and/or mineral sector Is essential, together with management leadership experience and exposure to underground mining production and planning experience.
• Further requirements include operating proficiency in Microsoft Office, mine design and planning software, and technical competency in drill and blest design, as well as mine scheduling.