Job Description
What This Role Offers
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Work closely with senior site leadership.
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Contribute to the long-term strategy of recent and existing mines.
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Exposure to life-of-mine planning, projects, and business strategy.
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Help influence the evolution of site systems and processes.
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Opportunities to move into other senior roles across Technical Services.
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Ongoing training and development, including seminars, conferences, and further education.
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About the Opportunity
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An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Scheduling Engineer to join our Golden Grove operation in Western Australia. This site-based role reports to the Technical Services Manager and operates on an 8:6 roster (potential to split work between site and the Perth office).
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Your focus will be on translating mine designs and operational inputs into reliable mine schedules that enable safe, efficient, value-driven delivery.
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Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include
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Developing accurate medium to long-term mine schedules (one month to three years) that align operational execution with site strategy and business objectives.
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Maintaining and optimising the master Deswik scheduling model to reflect current underground conditions, constraints, and Life of Mine planning.
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Translating mine design, operational data, and assumptions into practical, executable forecasts that can be safely delivered.
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Coordinating the scheduling cycle and engaging closely with surface, underground, and Technical Services stakeholders to manage risk and schedule variance.
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Analysing scenarios, bottlenecks, and alternatives to continuously improve schedule quality, efficiency, and robustness.
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Providing technical leadership to ensure planning and scheduling standards support safe, reliable mine plan delivery.
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About You
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Our ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in similar positions,



including exposure to underground hard-rock mining environments, delivering schedules beyond two-month horizons.
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Other Key Skills, Experience, And Qualifications
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Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline.
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Short and medium-term underground stope and development design experience (vertical and horizontal).
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Strong understanding of underground mining systems, including longhole stoping, equipment capabilities, and backfill systems.
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Experience developing and improving mine planning and scheduling systems and processes.
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Proficiency in mine design and scheduling software, preferably Deswik (Suite, Ops, MDM, Scheduler) or equivalent platforms.
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Current C-class manual driver's licence.
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About 29Metals and Golden Grove
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29Metals is an ASX-listed mining company producing copper and other base and precious metals critical to the global energy transition. Headquartered in Melbourne, we also have support offices in Perth and Brisbane.
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We operate two long-life assets: Golden Grove in Western Australia and Capricorn Copper in Queensland, along with a portfolio of exploration interests, including a strategic tenement package and project in Redhill, Chile.
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Golden Grove is a high-grade underground mining operation producing copper, zinc, and precious metals. With a mine life exceeding 10 years, it has strong potential for further extension. The site is currently undergoing an expansion, including the development of a new mine, the extension of existing operations, and major infrastructure upgrades.
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Next Steps
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Candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment testing, which may include a medical assessment, respiratory mask fit testing, drug and alcohol screening, national police clearance, working rights verification, reference checks, and qualification / licence checks.
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📌 Senior Scheduling Engineer (Mandurah)
🏢 29Metals
📍 Mandurah