Senior Mine Engineer

West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.; Red Lake; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly operation bonus program

Fly in/Fly out, accommodations and

100% employer paid extended health and

RRSP matching program

Job summary

West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. seeks a Senior Mine Planning Engineer to lead the planning team for the Red Lake Madsen mine, reporting to the Chief Mine Engineer. You will oversee 14:14 shifts to guide safe development and meet production targets in Ontario's Red Lake district.

You will mentor the planning group, develop rolling plans and budgets, and collaborate with Geology to ensure a steady production profile and timely project execution within the LOM framework.

Qualifications

• A B.Sc in Mining Engineering is essential; P.Eng. qualification is a must have or ability to gain P.Eng.
• 6–10 years of experience in underground mine planning and exposure to operations roles such as production coordination and crew supervision is desirable.
• Strong collaboration and presentation skills; the ability to maintain communication across engineering and other departments.
• Valid driving license and ability to work in a potential field environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team for short term and mid range planning.
• Adhere to safe working practices and contribute to the safety culture of the mine site.
• Generate rolling 3-month plans, quarterly forecasts, and annual budgets with feasible mining sequences.
• Collaborate with Geology to plan infill drilling and depletion strategies for a steady production profile.
• Maintain links between strategic, mid range, and short term planning horizons to ensure budget adherence.
• Oversee stope development design, capital infrastructure and related signoffs.
• Develop and update planning standard procedures for mid range and short term planning.
• Generate and review annual business plans and mid range designs for CAPEX and OPEX.

Skills

Mine planning

Leadership

Communication skills

Driving license

Education

B.Sc Mining Engineering

P.Eng. (or ability to gain)

Tools

Deswik software

Job description

Be a part of the initial team to grow and operate a regionally significant new underground mine development that is rapidly becoming the future of the iconic Red Lake gold mining district in Ontario, Canada.

Reporting to the Chief Mine Engineer, the successful candidate will work 14:14 to provide supervisory leadership for mid range and short term planning deliverables within the engineering team to support the safe development of the mine to achieve and surpass production targets while adding value to the Red Lake Madsen mine.

The Focus Of This Role Will Include

• Lead and Mentor a team of short term and Mid Range Planning group
• Adhere to safe working practices and contribute to the safety culture of the engineering team and the general mine site
• Responsible for generating rolling 3 months plans, Quarterly Forecasts and Annual Budgets using operationally feasible task rates and mining sequence to provide clear budget delivery strategies to the mine operations department
• Collaborate with Geology to plan definition infill drilling programs based on geological confidence of material and mining sequence depletion strategy to support a steady production profile for the annual budget and Life of Mine Plan
• Maintain essential link between the strategic planning horizon to the short term planning horizon to promote operational budget execution compliance to plan
• Manage stope depletion conceptual process to ensure constructive stakeholder engagement to generate operationally feasible strategies
• Manage mining blocks capital development and capital infrastructure setup through conceptual designs, presentations and timely signoff
• Manage the onsite Stope closure and reconciliation process to inform improvement initiatives and actions with respect to long hole designs and blasting
• Supervise the timely generation and approvals of long hole drilling packages, long hole loading packages and long hole blast letters
• Develop underground mine infrastructure design and support their timely construction
• Generate and update all needed Planning Standard Procedures within the mid range and short term planning of the engineering department.
• Manage the mid range designs for both CAPEX and OPEX for upcoming mining blocks through detailed conceptual approvals of developments and stopes
• Generate the annual Business Plan for the mine
• Laise with Geology and Geotech to apply all design criteria and approved design parameters to the LOM and mid range designs
• Supervise the generation of driving prints and ensure their timely approval and issue to the operations team to guide the development of lateral designs
• Supervise the generation of stope mucking and stope backfilling prints, ensures their timely approval and issue to the operations team to guide the safe and efficient mucking and backfilling of stopes
• Generate historical mining KPI trend analysis and present to the engineering and operations teams to inform the teams of the installed resources capacities and recommend mitigations to improve performance
• Supervise the weekly rolling forecast generation and approval in compliance to approved 3 months rolling forecast to guide the realization of approved monthly physicals
• Lead weekly engineering team underground tours and presite inspections for all ongoing engineering tasks
• Update imos software with approved weekly forecast to support mine supervisors to generate daily line ups for their crews
• Generate SOPs for all mid range and short term planning and data management processes for review and approval by the Chief Mine Engineer

Skills And Experience

• A B.Sc Mining Engineering or equivalent is essential and a P.Eng. qualification is a must have or ability to gain P.Eng.
• Experience in a range of mine planning horizons including long term, medium term and short term planning as well as exposure to operational roles such as production coordinator, mine dispatcher and crew supervision are desirable
• Self‑starter, strong collaboration skills and effective presentation skills
• Ability to maintain strong communication network between engineering and other department heads
• 6 to 10 years of experience with demonstrated experience on conventional and mechanized underground mining methods such as long hole open stoping, conventional and modified Avoca, underhand and overhand cut and fill with exposure to paste fills, consolidated rock fill and unconsolidated rock fill backfilling strategies
• Advanced competence in the use of Deswik mine planning software to generate optimized mine designs and schedules
• Strong knowledge of exploration methods and resource estimation
• Smart problem‑solving techniques and 3D visualization skills are essential
• Ontario Underground common core modules training and certification is an asset
• Valid driving license

Benefits

• Quarterly operation bonus program
• Fly in/Fly out, accommodations and meals provided
• 100% employer paid extended health and dental program
• RRSP matching program

Must be willing to produce a criminal background check and pre-employment drug and alcohol test

Red Lake Madsen Mine is an equal opportunity employer who appreciates all those interested in working on this exciting project.