Senior Underground Dispatch & Systems Expert

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.; Bhintuka; On-site; IDR 2,721,335,000 - 4,898,403,000; Full time

Job summary

Copper Overseas Service Company (COSCO) is seeking a Technical Expert for Underground Dispatch to lead governance, data quality, and optimization of Pitram, Deswik OPS, and related platforms in Indonesia’s underground mines.

You will mentor national staff, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across engineering, operations, planning, maintenance and MIS teams in a multicultural environment. Extensive experience in underground mining and dispatch systems is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mine Engineering or closely related field.
• Fifteen (15) years of underground mining experience or other large mining operations.
• Significant experience in underground dispatch systems, operational control, or production management.
• Demonstrated experience with Pitram, Deswik OPS, or equivalent operational systems.
• Experience within large-scale underground mining operations, preferably block cave operations.
• Strong understanding of mining production processes, development, haulage, cave management, and operational reporting.
• Experience leading business improvement, operational excellence, or continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as the site owner and technical authority for Pitram, Deswik OPS, and associated underground operational systems.
• Establish and maintain system governance standards, data structures, naming conventions, workflows, and business rules across all underground operations.
• Ensure consistency of operational data collection, classification, and reporting standards between DMLZ, GBC, KL, and future underground operations.
• Monitor system performance, data quality, and user compliance to ensure reliable decision-making and reporting.
• Develop and implement processes to continuously monitor data accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
• Lead regular audits of operational data and system configuration to identify inconsistencies and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, planning, maintenance, and MIS teams to resolve data quality issues.
• Maintain master data governance for equipment, locations, activities, crews, materials, delays, and operational reporting structures.
• Continue the deployment, stabilization, and optimization of Deswik OPS across underground operations.
• Coordinate with vendors, MIS, operational stakeholders, and engineering teams to ensure successful adoption and integration.
• Lead business process reviews to align operational workflows with system capabilities.
• Develop transition plans and change management strategies supporting the evolution from legacy processes to integrated digital workflows.
• Analyze operational performance data to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and analytical tools to support operational decision making.
• Lead cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives utilizing operational systems data.
• Quantify business value, productivity gains, cost reductions, and operational improvements resulting from system enhancements and process changes.
• Develop and maintain the long-term Underground Operations Systems roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to enhance dispatch, production management, planning integration, and operational intelligence capabilities.
• Prepare business cases and implementation plans for future operational technology initiatives.
• Provide recommendations to management regarding future investments in underground operational systems and digital capabilities.
• Provide deep and broad technical instructional support to National Staff & Non-Staff for all relevant activities within the Dispatch group as guidance to enhance and improve their skills, knowledge, and capabilities to the required level in performing their jobs skills, also to ensure all works comply with international standards, are completed in a safe manner, are within budget, and are on schedule.
• Develop system training materials, standards, and best practices.
• Promote data-driven decision making throughout underground operations.
• Build organizational capability in operations systems management and analytics.

Skills

Underground mining operations

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mine Engineering or closely related field

Tools

Pitram

Deswik OPS

Job description

Copper Overseas Service Company (COSCO) is seeking a Technical Expert for Underground Dispatch to lead governance, data quality, and optimization of Pitram, Deswik OPS, and related platforms in Indonesia’s underground mines.

You will mentor national staff, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across engineering, operations, planning, maintenance and MIS teams in a multicultural environment. Extensive experience in underground mining and dispatch systems is required.