Senior Mining Engineer - Short Term 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 – Short Term Planning (2 Week Planning)

Work Location: Christmas Creek 

Roster: FIFO ex. Perth 4D/3R

We are currently seeking a highly motivated Senior Mining Engineer to join the Christmas Creek operations planning team. Reporting to the Superintendent - Short Term Planning, the role is responsible for leading the weekly planning engineers to produce and communicate the weekly mine plan, consisting of a load and haul plan, a drill and blast plan, and a blend plan.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Supervision of weekly planning engineers on day-to-day basis to ensure the timely delivery of the weekly mine plan and all associated deliverables to achieve the product tonnes, grades and mining targets set in the 3 month plan
• Ensuring required standards and compliance measures are maintained and followed
• Recruit, train, mentor and retain team members
• Monitoring the implementation of the weekly plan and taking corrective action where required
• Providing input to the daily, 3MP and 2YP

Qualifications and skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience in mine engineering in large-scale, open pit mining operations, preferably in iron ore, with a focus on short-term scheduling and/ or drill and blast engineering
• Previous experience in technical leadership roles highly desirable
• Strong scheduling software skills, experience with Alastri software highly desirable
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical detail to a variety of stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with strong attention to detail
• Team oriented with the strong ability to take initiative

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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Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified