Mine Engineer

We are recruiting!

Our client in Lusaka, is looking for a Mine Engineer, to join their team for a job vacancy within the fintech industry.

Overview

To provide detailed mine planning and engineering to the mine operations site.

Responsibilities

• Hire and build a distributed, happy, and successful team in line with current legislation
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the operation(s)
• Develop and implement short range mine plans (surface initially then underground)
• Prepare detailed maps, cross sections, or other drawings from geologic, topographic, cost, production, and other data
• Provide drilling and blasting engineering along with engineering management and support for projects as assigned
• Provide production, maintenance, equipment, and unit costs
• Work closely with mining staff to conduct and monitor mining, blending and transport
• Survey land for mining operations
• Assist in the optimization of the mining process
• Determine cost estimates for the development of mining properties
• Identify and implement cost-saving measures
• Ensure that any contract complies with company and governmental policy
• Assist geologists with mapping geological disturbances and anomalies in affected mining areas
• Maintain accurate records and maps
• Assist and cooperate with governmental inspections and corporate audits
• Uphold environmental health and safety policies
• Understand mining KPIs and seek to improve them
• Draft quarterly OKRs and mining KPIs for teams
• Lead and drive significant results for multiple teams.
• Leading business critical cross-functional initiatives in addition to managing a team.
• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train engineering seniors to do managerial interviews
• Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes
• Hold regular 1:1s with team members and skip-level 1:1s with indirect reports
• Provide management mentorship
• Enable team planning collaboration within mining groups
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety of multiple teams.
• Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for the company are met, by working with functional team members

Education and Training Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, geomatics, geology, or civil engineering
• Experience in surface mining, short range mine planning, drilling and blasting, geological modelling, and surveying.

Professional Organizations and Associations (Optional)

• Registered as a Professional Engineer
• Societies for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.