Senior Mining Engineer | Mt Arthur Coal | Muswellbrook
Australia
About the Role
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About the Role
Mt Arthur Coal are looking for a Senior SRF Scheduler to join our Short Term Planning team within Technical Services to help develop safe and efficient mine schedules. The role is offered as a Mon-Fri work week.
Some of your responsibilities include;
- The ability to manage, engage, lead and coach a team of technical personnel
- Be a visible and active safety leader
- Mentor and guide the broader teams of production, planning and scheduling engineers to ensure that the designs and mine plans supporting the monthly to 6 month integrated planning horizons are delivered on time, to a high quality.
- Identify, assess, manage, and communicate risks to the execution of the mine plan to senior leadership.
- Monitor and track operational execution against mine plans.
- Effectively communicate planning outputs to internal and external stakeholders;
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders to deliver key design objectives.
About You
As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary qualification in Mine Engineering or related discipline. 5+ years of mining engineering/technical experience.
A strong working knowledge and/or experience base across the following aspects is required:
- Deswik and/or Vulcan
- SPRY (or equivalent) scheduling software
- Experience in opencut mining, with drill and blast, mine planning and scheduling exposure. Exposure to through-seam mining highly regarded.
- A high level of competence in mining software applications used for planning and scheduling, with Spry and Deswik highly regarded
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.