Remote Senior Mining Engineer & Mine-Development Leader

Axyde Analytics; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 379,000; Full time

Job summary

Axyde Analytics is seeking a Senior Mining Engineer and Mine Development Specialist for remote engagement with potential international travel. The role supports U.S.

government-funded scoping assignments across critical minerals and mine development, with consulting fees in the $150–$275 per hour range. Responsibilities include evaluating mine concepts, development sequences, and equipment strategies, and reviewing technical data to ensure credible bases for feasibility studies and pilots.

Qualifications

• Degree in mining engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of directly relevant mine-development, mine-planning, technical-services, operating, or consulting experience.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating critical-minerals, hard-rock, industrial-minerals, solution-mining, tailings-reprocessing, or comparable extraction projects.
• Experience translating technical findings into practical scopes of work, schedules, budgets, decision criteria, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Ability to evaluate early-stage projects with incomplete information and communicate uncertainty without overstating confidence.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate mine concepts, development sequences, mining methods, operating assumptions, and resource-to-reserve considerations.
• Review geological, geotechnical, hydrogeological, geometallurgical, and engineering information for gaps and risks.
• Assess surface or underground mine-design considerations, including access, ventilation, dewatering, ground control, materials handling, waste management, mine services, and closure dependencies.
• Evaluate mobile and fixed-equipment strategies, automation, electrification, digital-mine technologies, productivity assumptions, workforce requirements, and operating readiness.
• Assess interfaces among the mine, processing facilities, tailings and waste systems, water supply, power, transport corridors, ports, and other infrastructure.
• Develop or review technical tasks, required qualifications, deliverables, schedules, and budgets for pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, technical assistance, and pilot activities.
• Develop or independently review preliminary production, schedule, CAPEX, OPEX, implementation, and risk assumptions at a level appropriate to available information.
• Evaluate permitting, mine safety, environmental, social, community, logistics, supply-chain, and execution dependencies affecting development.
• Participate in sponsor interviews, technical-diligence calls, and occasional site visits involving project sponsors, host-country stakeholders, financiers, and prospective U.S. suppliers.
• Contribute to concept consultations, initial assessments, project reports, presentations, and sector deep dives.
• Clearly distinguish source data, professional judgments, assumptions, limitations, and matters requiring validation by a Professional Engineer, Qualified Person, Competent Person, or other appropriately licensed professional.

Skills

Analytical writing

Risk assessment

Communication of uncertainty

Project evaluation under incomplete情報

Working under tight schedules

Education

Degree in mining engineering or closely related engineering

Tools

Professional Engineer (PE) registration

Job description

Axyde Analytics is seeking a Senior Mining Engineer and Mine Development Specialist for remote engagement with potential international travel. The role supports U.S.

government-funded scoping assignments across critical minerals and mine development, with consulting fees in the $150–$275 per hour range. Responsibilities include evaluating mine concepts, development sequences, and equipment strategies, and reviewing technical data to ensure credible bases for feasibility studies and pilots.