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The Opportunity

The Senior Underground Planning Engineer will provide technical direction to MinRes Lithium mine site operations and corporate stakeholders, to delivery of MinRes objectives through optimised, accurate and repeatable underground mine plans and designs.

This role involves having strong stakeholder engagement with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, providing advice and implementing strategies to ensure alignment of mine plans with business objectives.

For this position you will report directly to the Manager Underground Planning and be part of our long-term planning team, you will be based at our HQ office on Osborne Park, and on occasions oversee projects up onsite as the business requires.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for taking long-term underground designs, schedules, and budgets to medium term and execution level of details for 2 Year budgets and quarterly reforecasts
• Lead and deliver two-year budgets and quarterly reforecasts to the broader business and as the key lead to site operations.
• Contribute to mining Concept, Pre- Feasibility (PFS), Feasibility (FS) and due diligence studies
• Identify, evaluate, select, and justify underground capital infrastructure requirements to support safe and efficient mining execution. Includes air, power, water supply, dewatering, egress, communications, pastefill, etc.
• Ensure capital infrastructure planning is integrated into engineering, budgeting, forecasting, and corporate planning processes
• Develop and implement consistent mine planning systems, procedures, standards, and templates to support transparent communication of mine plans from long-term to short-term horizons
• Work proactively with risk, safety, geology, geotechnical, environmental, approvals, engineering, and implementation teams to ensure mine plans include appropriate constraints and activities ensuring plans are technically robust and operationally feasible
• Visit underground project and operational sites on a monthly basis and as required to engage with site personnel, review progress against plan, refine designs and schedules, and execute projects
• Support the mining approvals process by identifying and incorporating mining approval requirements into mine plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Communicate mine plans to stakeholders
• Support site personnel to implement mine plans and budgets

What is Required:

• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or related discipline
• Extensive experience in underground planning/operations
• Highly proficient in the Deswik suite of mine planning products across underground optimisation, design and scheduling
• Mine planning optimisation and mining method selection at the PFS or Life Of Mine level
• Exposure to infrastructure planning and economic assessments
• Previous experience in large scale, complex underground mining environments
• Experience with pastefill and ventilation design preferable
• Self-managed written and verbal communication skills
• Proven experience in meeting deadlines and agility to achieve project directives

About Mineral Resources 

MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX’s best-performing companies since listing in 2006. 

Our headquarters at 20 Walters Drive sets a new standard for workplace wellness.  World class facilities include a café, restaurant, commercial gym, crèche, daycare and health centre, including GP. 

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