Engineer - Drill and Blast

Challenge yourself with us

Newcrest is one of the world's largest gold mining companies. As a global business, we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, valued and supported to bring their whole unique self to work.

We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work.

At Newcrest, we hold core values that focus on caring about people, working together and achieving a high-performance culture through innovation and problem solving.

Operations near and far

In the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia, our Telfer gold-copper mine is our fly-in-fly-out operation, comprising both open pits and an underground mine. While at site Telfer offers a diverse range of recreational activities including a gym, swimming pool, driving range, movie room and refurbished communal eatery.

Who we’re looking for

A permanent opportunity has arisen for a motivated and passionate Drill & Blast Engineer to help deliver best practice at our Telfer Open Pit Mine. This role is ideal for a candidate who is looking to develop and broaden their skill set in a professional and supportive environment. You will be engaging with various stakeholder groups to ensure that objectives are resolved, and you will be encouraged to make decisions and take ownership of those decisions.

Reporting to the Senior Engineer Drill and Blast and working alongside other Drill and Blast Engineers, the key deliverables of this role include:

• Delivery of Open Pit drill and blast design functions to allow contract surface mining operations to mine safe and efficiently
• Ensuring drill and blast designs, tie-ins and approvals are completed before schedule requirement
• Monitoring blasting and operational performance and implement changes to improve performance
• Supporting mine scheduling and design functions to support safe, cost effective open pit production

To succeed in this role, you will appreciate working in an inclusive team environment and will genuinely care to make a real difference. You will have a good understanding of open-pit mining operations and the natural ability to think quickly on your feet, build relationships and manage stakeholders. Your excellent interpersonal and conflict management skills will see you promote a site wide, team-based culture between employees, departments and contractors.

In addition to the above key skills, you will also have:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering
• Experience in Drill and Blast open pit mining
• Well-rounded stakeholder management experience and excellent communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Excel and Vulcan
• Power BI and BlastLogic experience is desirable
• Manual drivers licence (Essential)

Please note: This is a permanent role that will work on a FIFO (8/6), flying out of Perth.

Our commitment to you

Ownership is part of how we work. You will be part of a high-performance culture that is building our future. While structure and processes guide how we work, we continue to find opportunities to be nimble and collaborative.

Newcrest is also committed to building a diverse workforce. Our strategic focus is on diversity to reflect the communities in which we operate. Creating an inclusive culture will enable us to leverage the richness of cultures across our workforce and the capability of our diverse employees to get better business outcomes.

If you are seeking a new career challenge, where you can transfer your existing skills, into a positive and empowering team environment, we’d love to hear from you!

 At this stage, we are not accepting any external agency CVs for the opportunity.

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