Residential Underground Mining Engineer – Otago, NZ

OceanaGold Corporation; Macraes; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Study assistance

Employee Assistance Program

Long service recognition

Living Our Values program

Job summary

OceanaGold invites applications for an experienced Underground Mining Engineer to join the Technical Services team at Macraes, Otago, NZ. This residential role offers an outdoors lifestyle with beaches and trails at your doorstep, and supports production targets with professional production engineering services.

You will deliver drill and blast designs, schedule short term production, and drive continuous improvement through stoping reviews while working to OGL safety standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in mining engineering or equivalent.
• Full and current Driver Licence; manual vehicle experience essential.
• Minimum 12 months experience in underground mining.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality drill and blast designs to operations in support of the mining plan.
• Schedule short term production activities.
• Continuous improvement through regular stoping reviews and reconciliations.
• Create detailed stope designs based on conceptual designs, development as-builts and current geological block models; maximise extraction of available resource.
• Produce drill designs and charge plans to meet monthly plan requirements.
• Ensure designs and charges comply with OGL standards and industry best practice.
• Maintain sufficient design stocks to minimise disruption to production.
• Provide design tonnes and grades to planning before weekly cycle begins.
• Perform regular stope inspections and document observations.
• Provide current brow positions and blasted stocks to planning to assist monthly forecasts.
• Communicate issues identified with technical tools and software across the Macraes Underground team.
• Collaborate with other OGL departments to maximise production.
• All work performed in accordance with OGL safety standards.

Skills

Underground mining knowledge

Production engineering

Safety focus

Education

Engineering degree (Mining)

Job description

OceanaGold invites applications for an experienced Underground Mining Engineer to join the Technical Services team at Macraes, Otago, NZ. This residential role offers an outdoors lifestyle with beaches and trails at your doorstep, and supports production targets with professional production engineering services.

You will deliver drill and blast designs, schedule short term production, and drive continuous improvement through stoping reviews while working to OGL safety standards.