Alternate Underground Manager

MINERAL RESOURCES LIMITED; City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder; On-site; AUD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful projects

Growth in lithium sector

Share plan

Employee benefits

Job summary

MINERAL RESOURCES LIMITED is seeking an Alternate Underground Manager to restart and ramp up the Mount Marion underground operation, guiding it to steady-state production.

You will report to the Underground Manager, ensuring statutory compliance, contractor management, and operational readiness while implementing processes for safe and efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or equivalent.
• WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency required.
• Experience in underground mining, especially large-scale mechanised long-hole stoping with pastefill operations.
• Experience ramping up underground projects and building onsite teams and processes.
• Proven contractor management, performance monitoring and compliance capability.
• Demonstrated experience in operational and technical team leadership.
• Familiarity with relevant mining software and technologies.
• Experience holding statutory Underground Manager responsibilities.
• Growth mindset with strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill statutory responsibilities as the Alternate Underground Mine Manager.
• Day-to-day contractor management of underground service providers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement operational readiness for steady-state underground production.
• Safely deliver and execute the underground mine planned physicals, costs, and infrastructure plans/schedules.
• Supervise and deliver short-term mine planning/scheduling, geotechnical, geological, and survey functions.
• Collaborate with corporate commercial and technical teams that deliver the contracting strategy and mine plans.
• Establish positive, productive relationships with contractors, promoting communication and collaboration to achieve project objectives.
• Champion safety first culture ensuring compliance with all relevant safety policies, procedures, and regulations.

Skills

Underground mining experience

Leadership

Contractor management

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory/compliance

Education

Mining Engineering degree | WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate

Job description

MinRes can offer you!

• Opportunity to have a large impact, building mines from early stages of operational readiness, being involved from the very beginning
• Play a key part in supporting MinRes’ rapidly growing position in the lithium sector and be part of the growth
• MinRes Employee share plan + Great employee benefits

The Opportunity

As the Alternate Underground Manager, you will execute the onsite restart and ramp-up of the underground mine at the Mount Marion Operation, guiding it to steady-state production.

Reporting to the Underground Manager, this pivotal role encompasses statutory compliance, contractor management, operational readiness and the delivery of onsite technical functions. You will develop and implement processes that ensure safe, efficient and sustainable operations.

This position will commence on an 8D6X roster, flying from Perth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fulfill statutory responsibilities as the statutory Alternate Underground Mine Manager
• Day to day contractor management of underground service providers
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop and implement operational readiness for steady state underground production
• Safely deliver and execute the underground mine planned physicals, costs, and infrastructure plans/schedules
• Supervise and deliver short-term mine planning/scheduling, geotechnical, geological, and survey functions
• Collaborate with corporate commercial and technical teams that deliver the contracting strategy and mine plans
• Establish positive, productive relationships with contractors, promoting communication and collaboration to achieve project objectives
• Champion safety first culture ensuring compliance with all relevant safety policies, procedures, and regulations

What is Required:

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mining) or equivalent
• WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency
• Strong background in underground mining, ideally large‑scale mechanised long‑hole stoping with pastefill operations
• Experience ramping up underground projects and building onsite teams and processes
• Proven contractor management, performance monitoring and compliance capability
• Demonstrated experience in operational and technical team leadership
• Familiarity with relevant mining software and technologies
• Experience holding statutory Underground Manager responsibilities
• Growth mindset with strong communication and relationship‑building skills

About Mt Marion

Mt Marion is located 40km south west of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. MinRes manages all mining activities at Mt Marion, including a spodumene concentrate processing plant with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tonnes (SC6 equivalent).

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.

At MinRes, the future's bright. Be part of our next chapter.