Underground Mine Engineer Intern: Design & Planning

Careermine; United States; On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinross Round Mountain is offering a mining engineering internship in Nevada for a student pursuing a mining engineering or related degree. The role supports the Technical Services team with underground mine design, ventilation, and planning tasks while applying Kinross values.

You will gain hands-on experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting, collaborate with engineers and operations, and contribute to safety and efficiency initiatives on the site.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in mining engineering or related bachelor's degree program with at least two years of university coursework preferred.
• 0-2 years of relevant engineering, mining, construction, or industrial experience preferred.
• Must be 18 years old and presently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Working knowledge of computers and common software; exposure to mine-planning, CAD, ventilation-modeling, scheduling, GIS is an asset.
• Strong analytical, organizational, data-management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist mine engineers with underground development and production designs, including layouts for headings, ramps, accesses, stopes, drill patterns, services, and infrastructure.
• Support short- and medium-range mine planning by updating designs, quantities, equipment assumptions, activity durations, and schedule inputs.
• Assist ventilation personnel with underground ventilation surveys and maintain ventilation records and plans.
• Collect underground operating-cycle data for drilling, charging, blasting, re-entry, mucking, hauling and related activities.
• Assist with special projects such as haulage studies, equipment productivity reviews and mine-plan optimization.
• Compile, validate and summarize engineering and operational data using spreadsheets, databases and planning software.

Skills

Underground design

Ventilation modeling

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Safety awareness

CAD basics

Mining engineering basics

Independent work

Education

Mining Engineering degree

Tools

CAD

Mine-planning software

GIS

Data visualization

Job description

Kinross Round Mountain is offering a mining engineering internship in Nevada for a student pursuing a mining engineering or related degree. The role supports the Technical Services team with underground mine design, ventilation, and planning tasks while applying Kinross values.

You will gain hands-on experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting, collaborate with engineers and operations, and contribute to safety and efficiency initiatives on the site.