Senior Planning Engineer — Mine Planning & Scheduling Lead

Bellevue Gold Limited; Leinster; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bellevue Gold Limited is seeking a Senior Mine Planning Engineer to provide technical support for mining infrastructure projects and mine planning at the Bellevue Gold Mine in Western Australia. Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, you will lead planning engineers to deliver schedules that meet production and cost targets.

You will oversee 2-, 12-, and 18-month schedules, develop design work for ventilation and paste fill, and ensure plans align with Life of Mine strategies.

Qualifications

• A tertiary degree in Mining Engineering.
• Experience with pastefill preferable.
• Professional experience in mining engineering.
• Deswik competency.
• Well-developed communication and literacy skills.
• Ability to work autonomously with well-developed time management skills.
• Business acumen gained within an operational mining environment.
• Full knowledge of Work Health and Safety (Mines) Act & Regulations.
• Outstanding analytical skills.
• Highly skilled written and verbal communication, literacy, numeracy and presentation skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to work to deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of 2-week, 12 week and 18-month schedules for the operation, aligned with the Business Plan and Life of Mine.
• Development design work to meet the mining schedule, considering ventilation, infrastructure, paste fill and geotechnical needs.
• Strategic infrastructure planning and scheduling with mining interactions and budget in mind.
• Manage dewatering, ventilation and power projects to meet medium/long term needs.
• Collaborate with the Principal Engineer to align site schedule with long-term plan.
• Review and validate lateral development and stoping designs for quality and efficiency, justify costs.
• Analyse variances between actual performance and schedule; mitigate impacts.
• Communicate schedule health and risks to budget delivery and plan mitigations.
• Update planning guidelines and procedures to improve operations.
• Engage stakeholders before scheduling work and provide timely updates.
• Provide leadership, training and mentoring to Planning engineers.
• Contribute to daily production meetings to align operations with the mining schedule.
• Conduct underground inspections and QA/QC to ensure safe execution of plans.
• Advise the Technical Services Manager and Underground Manager on safety/production issues.

Skills

Mining Engineering

Deswik

Communication

Autonomy

Time management

WH&S knowledge

Analytical skills

Leadership

Education

Mining Engineering degree

Tools

Deswik

Job description

Bellevue Gold Limited is seeking a Senior Mine Planning Engineer to provide technical support for mining infrastructure projects and mine planning at the Bellevue Gold Mine in Western Australia. Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, you will lead planning engineers to deliver schedules that meet production and cost targets.

You will oversee 2-, 12-, and 18-month schedules, develop design work for ventilation and paste fill, and ensure plans align with Life of Mine strategies.