Job Description

An established underground mining operation in Queensland is recruiting a permanent engineer for medium term planning, someone who can keep a complex extraction sequence workable across several operating fronts.

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What the employer needs most is a plan that holds together. Production readiness, ventilation, backfill, stoping, infrastructure, services and development all interact at this zinc-lead-silver mine, and with a long mine life the schedule has to stand up for years. The engineer appointed will create, maintain and keep improving the plans that deliver production and development targets.

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The employer is open on location, offering a Brisbane base, a fly-in fly-out arrangement or residential living at the mine. Visa sponsorship is available for suitably qualified candidates.

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- Prepare, maintain and continually improve the mine plans and schedules behind production and development targets.
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- Take Life-of-Mine and long-term planning strategies and turn them into practical medium-term mining sequences.
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- Optimise each sequence for stope extraction, development timing,



ventilation availability and infrastructure readiness.
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- Make sure medium-term sequences can be carried through into short-term plans.
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- Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering, or in a related subject.
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- Demonstrated underground hard rock mining experience.
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- Exposure gained in mine planning, scheduling or technical services roles, preferably.
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- Working experience with mine planning and design software (Surpac, Deswik or equivalent) applied to stope sequencing, schedule analysis and development planning.
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- Solid understanding of production sequencing, development requirements and underground mining methods.
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- The ability to read geotechnical, geological, operational and ventilation constraints and build them into practical mine plans.
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- Solid analytical and problem-solving ability, including judging planning risks, identifying constraints and developing practical solutions.
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📌 Mining Engineer (Medium Term Planning) (Brisbane)
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