Senior Mine Production Engineer

• Real Career Progression Opportunities
• Gain leadership experience in our unique and diverse operations
• 8:6 Family Friendly Roster | FIFO Ex Perth

Minara Resources has an opportunity for a skilled Senior Mine Production Engineer to join their team.

Minara Resources is Australia’s largest cobalt producer and a major world producer of nickel. Our Murrin Murrin site in WA’s northern Goldfields is an integrated nickel and cobalt mining and processing operation employing over 1,000 people. We are a diverse, dedicated and driven workforce, building a sustainable business today with a focus on tomorrow.

Minara Resources is wholly owned by Glencore, one of the world’s largest globally diversified natural resources companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities.  Glencore employs over 145,000 people operates around 150 operating mining and processing sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities in over 35 countries.

The Role
The successful candidate will become part of a proactive and committed team who are responsible for the provision of mine design and scheduling services over the short-to-medium term planning horizon.
You will be responsible for:

• Providing direction and assisting with the coordination of the production engineering team;
• Provision of mine designs and schedules to satisfy business requirements over the short-to-medium planning horizons;
• Monitoring of ore blending requirements;
• Reconciliation and delivery of mine performance and rolling schedules;
• Excavator production field guidance; and
• Adding value through continuous process improvement.

About You
This role would suit a tertiary qualified Mining Engineer with proven production / mine planning experience; who is looking to work towards gaining experience in supervision and management of a team. You will also have:

• Previous experience in an open pit mining environment;
• Enjoy participating in strategic mine planning activities including, in-pit tails, generating pit designs and infrastructure layouts;
• Past exposure to mine design and scheduling software;
• The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively; and
• Unrestricted Quarry Managers’ Certification would be advantageous.

What We Offer
We offer a diverse range of roles across our multi pit mining operations through to our complex and technically challenging hydrometallurgical process plant.

• A permanent position working directly for Minara Resources;
• 13.5% superannuation contribution;
• An incentive program paid monthly; and
• Our employee relocation assistance program plus much more.