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Description
North Mara Gold Mine, Mara Region

PLANNING ENGINEER

Acacia Mining seeks to employ a Planning Engineer (Underground Short/ Medium Term Planning) based at North Mara Mine in Tanzania. This role reports to the Section Leader Underground Production and the role holder will be accountable to ensure short term and medium term underground mine designs and schedules align with long term and short term requirements of the operations, and provide support to Underground Production and Underground Ventilation Engineers.

This is a permanent role, with the work roster being six weeks on and three weeks off.

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure all incidents are reported and investigated according to procedure and on time, and assist with any other accident investigation when required.
• Identify, notify and/or rectify all unsafe acts, situations and hazards within the workplace.
• Ensure Zero Fatality, Zero LTI and Zero MTI in the Section and that incidents are reported timely.
• Develop design and layouts accurately and on time and ensure 100% compliance to the layout implementation.
• Ensure compliance to the daily tracking and weekly plan; as well as compliance to stope shape designs and updates.
• Prepare Mine Plan and Short Term Schedule effectively, accurately, and timely.
• Prepare Medium Term Mining Schedule effectively, accurately, and timely.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of:
o Stope notes
o Drill design
o Blast design
o Reconciliation of drill and blast performance
o 1 Month mining schedule
o Economic analyst of mining activities
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of:
o Medium Term design and layouts
o Medium Term Stope shape designs
o Medium Term Economic analyst of mining activities
o Update of 3-6 month schedules/ Medium Term schedules

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Qualification Requirements:

• BSc Mining Engineering

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in an underground mining environment
• At least 3 years’ experience in an underground mine planning and scheduling role
• Experience in the Gold Mining Industry

Skills / Knowledge Requirements:

• Project Management
• Underground Mining Methods and Systems
• Mine design and planning
• Maintenance methods and systems
• Underground Ventilation engineering and systems
• OHS Legislation
• Mines Regulations and Act
• Environmental Legislation
• Exposure and understanding of Cemented Aggregate Backfill systems
• Production Drill and Blast in Open stoping mines
• Mine design
• Ability to use of mine design software deswick, surpac, Studio5DP or similar
• Strong conceptual thinking ability
• Effective communication skill
• Procedure design and implementation
• Computer skills such as MS Excel, Access, Word
• Analysis and diagnosis of data

Application Instructions
Online application, Click HERE