Mine Operations Control Superintendent

Stellar Recruitment; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonus

2 weeks on/2 weeks off roster

FIFO from Brisbane or Sydney

Career development opportunities

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Harmony Australasia is seeking an experienced Mining Engineering leader to translate monthly plans into weekly schedules, oversee daily execution, and proactively manage variances in one of Australia’s deepest underground copper mines.

Ideal candidates will have mining engineering credentials, extensive underground experience, and strong skills in Deswik CAD/Sched and Pitram, with leadership and stakeholder engagement across site teams.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering.
• Substantial underground hard-rock mining experience and a strong understanding of mine operations, production constraints and work-front interactions.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating short-term mine planning, weekly scheduling, shift execution and schedule variance management.
• Strong proficiency with Deswik CAD and Deswik Sched.
• Experience with mine control and production-tracking systems such as Pitram or similar platforms.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and operational data-management capability.
• Experience leading mine control, planning, production engineering or operational-support teams.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder-engagement skills across operations, technical services, maintenance and site leadership.
• An analytical approach to operational performance, risk assessment, variance review and recovery planning.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and make timely, well-informed decisions within a dynamic underground environment.
• Experience working for a mining contractor would be beneficial OR able to demonstrate technical aptitude but also be operationally minded.

Responsibilities

• Translate monthly mine plan into practical weekly schedules, control daily execution and address emerging constraints and variances.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team spanning mine control, operations engineering and development execution, working with another superintendent.

Skills

Underground mining

Short-term planning

Weekly scheduling

Schedule variance mgmt

Deswik CAD

Deswik Sched

Pitram

Excel/Data mgmt

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Decision making

Education

Mining Engineering degree

Tools

Deswik CAD

Deswik Sched

Pitram

Job description

• Lead weekly planning, mine control and short-interval execution at CSA Mine
• Permanent 2 weeks on weeks off roster, FIFO from Brisbane or Sydney
• Join one of Australia’s deepest and highest-grade underground copper mines

CSA Mine is located approximately 11 kilometres north-west of Cobar in central western New South Wales. Extending to a depth of around 1.9 kilometres, CSA is one of Australia’s deepest underground mines and its highest-grade copper operation.

CSA Mine is part of Harmony Australasia. Harmony is South Africa’s largest gold producer by volume and has an expanding portfolio of copper and gold assets across Australia and Papua New Guinea. Its regional portfolio includes CSA Mine, the Eva Copper Mine Project currently under construction in Queensland, Hidden Valley Mine and a 50% interest in the Tier 1 Wafi-Golpu copper-gold project.

The role:

This is a key leadership position responsible for translating the monthly mine plan into practical weekly schedules, controlling daily execution and ensuring emerging constraints and variances are identified and addressed.

The position would suit an operationally minded engineer who is fast paced, understands backfill constraints, understands ventilation principles, has seen what good mine design looks like and is able to take all the information that is happening across the site (maintenance, mill, paste plant, technical, ops etc) and then develop the weekly schedule.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team spanning mine control, operations engineering and development execution and work back-to-back with another experienced superintendent.

About You:

To be successful, you will bring the following skills, experience and personal attributes:

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering.
• Substantial underground hard-rock mining experience and a strong understanding of mine operations, production constraints and work-front interactions.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating short-term mine planning, weekly scheduling, shift execution and schedule variance management.
• Strong proficiency with Deswik CAD and Deswik Sched.
• Experience with mine control and production-tracking systems such as Pitram or similar platforms.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and operational data-management capability.
• Experience leading mine control, planning, production engineering or operational-support teams.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder-engagement skills across operations, technical services, maintenance and site leadership.
• An analytical approach to operational performance, risk assessment, variance review and recovery planning.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and make timely, well-informed decisions within a dynamic underground environment.
• Experience working for a mining contractor would be beneficial OR able to demonstrate technical aptitude but also be operationally minded.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, including eligibility to participate in Harmony’s bonus scheme.
• Permanent position working an attractive 2 weeks on 2 weeks off roster.
• FIFO travel available from Brisbane or Sydney.
• Opportunity to lead a critical operational function at one of Australia’s deepest underground mines.
• Career-development opportunities within a growing international mining organisation.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives, including access to gym and pool facilities for employees and their dependants living in Cobar.
• Join an expanding Australian business with exposure to the high-growth commodities of copper and gold.