About the role

Frontline Mine Design is seeking a highly capable Senior Underground Planning Engineer to deliver long-term mine planning for underground operations across Western Australia. This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who can independently own life-of-mine designs and schedules, budgets and longer-term planning deliverables. You will be trusted to step into a client operation, understand its constraints quickly and produce practical, technically robust plans without day-to-day technical supervision.

Benefits

- $335,000 annualised casual hourly rate, inclusive of casual loading, with superannuation paid in addition

- $5,000 bonus payable on successful completion of your first Frontline client assignment

- FIFO travel from Perth, with approved flights, accommodation and meals provided while on assignment

- High-value technical work across a range of Western Australian underground operations

- Genuine autonomy and direct access to decision-makers in a specialist, engineer-led consultancy

Key responsibilities

- Independently develop and maintain life-of-mine designs and production schedules

- Deliver annual budgets, forecasts, two-year plans, five-year plans and other long-term planning outputs required by the client

- Complete stope optimisation, cut-off grade analysis, mining-method assessments and planning scenario evaluations

- Produce underground development, production, access and infrastructure designs

- Develop practical development and stoping sequences that reflect operational constraints and production priorities

- Prepare schedule assumptions, physicals, cost inputs and value trade-offs for planning decisions and business cases

- Identify and communicate plan risks, constraints, dependencies, bottlenecks and opportunities

- Integrate geology, geotechnical, ventilation, fill, survey, infrastructure,



approvals and operational requirements into mine plans

- Work closely with site technical services, operations, finance and management teams to ensure plans are technically sound and operationally executable

- Clearly communicate mine plans, assumptions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

About you

- Advanced capability in Deswik.CAD and Deswik.Sched

- Demonstrated ability to deliver underground life-of-mine designs and schedules unassisted

- Demonstrated ability to own budget, forecast and longer-term mine-planning deliverables

- Substantial underground hard-rock planning experience and the judgement required to produce practical plans for an operating mine

- Strong working knowledge of underground mining methods, development and production sequencing, mine infrastructure and operational constraints

- The ability to assess alternatives, quantify risks and trade-offs, and turn technical analysis into clear recommendations

- Robust written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to work directly with client technical and operational stakeholders

- A reliable, self-managed approach and a track record of delivering accurate work to deadline

- Current Australian working rights

- A current, valid driver's licence

About us

Frontline Mine Design is a Perth-based mining engineering consultancy specialising in Western Australian underground operations. We provide practical mine designs, accurate schedules, Deswik systems and embedded technical support to mining clients across WA. Our work is grounded in operational reality: plans need to be safe, executable and capable of standing up to technical and commercial scrutiny. We are a lean, engineer-led business. You will work with a high level of autonomy, deal directly with Frontline leadership and client teams, and be judged on the quality and practicality of the work you deliver.

📌 Contract Senior Planning Engineer (Perth)
🏢 Frontline Mine Design
📍 Perth