Senior Long-Term Planning Engineer

Agnico Eagle; Northeastern Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company seeks a Senior Long-Term Planning Engineer to provide engineering services, ensure safety compliance and optimize mine planning processes. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s in Mine Engineering and at least 10 years of experience in open pit mining. The position offers a mix of tele-working and on-site presence, with transportation and accommodations provided.

Benefits

Accommodations on site provided

Transportation to and from mine site

Meals provided on site

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in an open pit mining environment.
• Experience in long-term mine planning and production support.
• Knowledge of unit costing methods for resource and reserve analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide mine engineering services for business needs.
• Develop strategic mine planning to support activities.
• Optimize phase designs and development mine sequences.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

High level of cultural awareness

Competence in mine planning software

Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mine Engineering

Tools

Vulcan

Minesight

Deswik

Xeras cost estimating tool

Job description

Overview

Reporting to the Mine Planning Superintendent you will be part of the Engineering Department. The Senior Long-Term Planning Engineer will be responsible for providing mine engineering services to meet the business needs in support of existing operations and the study/project pipeline, and strategic development activities. This role works cross-departmentally with operations, maintenance and other line functions to ensure the plan is communicated and executed effectively. You will ensure that the goals and objectives are achieved while promoting and respecting Agnico Eagle’s values, Health & Safety Code of Conduct and the environment.

• Ensure compliance to HSSE policies, standards and procedures, ensuring team members are fully trained and able to perform their duties safely;

• Develop strategic mine planning process to support all mining related activities;

• Work in collaboration with all site functions to determine plan, design input parameters and assumptions, ensuring all design work (pit slopes, dumps, stockpiles, roads, drill and blast) comply to AE standards and legislative requirements;

• Liaise with geology and geotechnical engineers to determine and apply design criteria for the mine being designed and with mine operations to ensure practicality of designs;

• Optimize the phase designs and development strategic mine sequences;

• Develop pit optimization and recommend the final pit shell selection;

• Optimize the phase designs and development strategic mine sequence;

• Work in collaboration with the senior long-term engineer in the mid-year and year-end Reserve Statement;

• Develop the Life of Mine and ELOM in accordance with the Corporate and internal project deadlines and objectives;

• Design of mine infrastructures: waste dump, Stockpile, haul road and other facilities required to support the Ore Reserves and LOM mine scheduling;

• Integrate the Design Criteria for the LOM;

• Calculate the COG and develop the mine opex calculation;

• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures in engineering.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mine Engineering with eligibility for P.Eng registration with the PEO;

• Minimum 10 years’ senior technical and operational experience in an open pit mining environment;

• Experience in a range of mine planning horizons including long term mine planning, production support, mine operations and design in large and diversified mine sites, with preference for experience in conventional hard rock gold operations;

• Demonstrate experience and knowledge in phase and pit designs;

• Experience with resource/reserves estimation;

• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence and a high level of cultural awareness and sensitivity;

• Experience in strategic mine scheduling, life of mine, 5 years mine schedule and the transition to tactical mine scheduling,

• Knowledge of equipment selection, reserve estimation and economic evaluations;

• High level of competence in the use of mine planning software, including optimization techniques and strong experience in the use of Vulcan, Minesight and Deswik software;

• Knowledge of unit costing methods for resource and reserve analysis and of cash flow and financial analysis through the use and manipulation of project financial models. Experience with Xeras cost estimating tool a plus;

• Excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft Office Suite applications especially Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.

OUR WORK SCHEDULE

• 4/3 schedule (Monday to Thursday) at Detour Lake Mine; a combination of tele-working with presence at our offices in Timmins, ON, Sudbury, ON or Toronto, ON and home.

• Accommodations and meals are provided on site at no cost to the employee. Agnico Eagle provides transportation to and from the mine site and will accommodate to cover other travelling expenses according to your location of residence in Canada.