Geotechnical Practice Lead - Underground Mining Residential

Stellar Recruitment Pty; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent position with Glencore

Competitive salary with 13% super and

Job summary

Glencore's George Fisher Mine in Mt Isa, QLD seeks a Geotechnical Practice Lead to deliver safe, value-adding geotechnical outcomes across the operation. You will guide monitoring, stability, and risk management while building capability within the technical team.

The role emphasises strong technical depth, practical operational understanding, and commitment to improving geotechnical quality. Residential Mt Isa is preferred, with FIFO considered where appropriate.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Geotechnical Engineering or related discipline.
• Significant underground metalliferous mining experience in geotechnical roles.
• Demonstrated experience in ground control, excavation performance, support design, stope and development geotechnical assessment, and monitoring systems.
• Strong understanding of underground mining methods and the interaction between geology, stress, excavation geometry, sequencing and support performance.
• Proven ability to apply geotechnical analysis to practical operational decisions.
• Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers and setting clear standards and expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across geotechnical monitoring, excavation stability, and support design.
• Lead stope design guideline optimisation and risk management.
• Collaborate with Geotechnical Superintendent to deliver safe, practical outcomes across operations.
• Mentor engineers and build team capability.

Skills

Geotechnical engineering

Ground control

Stope design

Risk assessment

Instrumentation

Technical leadership

Team mentoring

Decisions under geotechnical risk

Education

Tertiary qualification in Geotechnical Engineering

Job description

Glencore's George Fisher Mine in Mt Isa, QLD seeks a Geotechnical Practice Lead to deliver safe, value-adding geotechnical outcomes across the operation. You will guide monitoring, stability, and risk management while building capability within the technical team.

The role emphasises strong technical depth, practical operational understanding, and commitment to improving geotechnical quality. Residential Mt Isa is preferred, with FIFO considered where appropriate.