Senior Mining Engineer – 3 Month Planning

Fortescue has an exciting future ahead. As well as producing over 180 million tonnes of iron ore per year, we’re diversifying our business to become an integrated global green energy and resources company. 

Senior Mining Engineer – 3 Month Planning

Work Location: Eliwana - Fortescue’s Eliwana mine is located on the traditional lands of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama & Pinikura (PKKP) People.

Roster: 4D/3R FIFO ex Perth

We are currently looking for enthusiastic and high performing Senior Mine Planning Engineer to join the Eliwana operations planning team. Reporting to Medium Term Planning Superintendent, this role will lead a small team of engineers to deliver the 3-month plan including operational and optimised mine designs as well as key inputs into 2 year planning.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of engineers to prepare, optimise and deliver the 3 month plans on a monthly basis for delivery to the 2 week site and integrated planning teams.
• Delivery of optimised infrastructure, pit and waste dump mine designs.
• Liaise with support functions, including Geology, Geotechnical, Surface Water and Hydrogeology to understand risk and opportunities to the operation and to enable timely achievement of mining milestones.
• Assessment of sequencing, blending and mining methodology options for both cost and productivity metrics.
• Communicating plans, scenario’s, and designs with relevant stakeholders.
• Delivering product quality, pit progression, waste schedules, fleet requirements and other technical guidance to other stakeholders.
• Liaise with 2 year and 2 week plans to ensure alignment across the time horizons.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in mine engineering or equivalent. 
• Minimum 6 Years proven experience as a Mining Engineer, preferably with exposure to 3 months planning, or short term planning
• Practical approach to engineering and design problems
• Experience in Open Pit mining and Blending methodologies
• Experience with Alastri and Vulcan software highly desirable
• Team orientation and strong ability to take initiatives
• Excellent communication/presentation skills with the ability to convey technical detail, potential risks and opportunities within the planned works to a variety of stakeholders

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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