Overview
We are recruiting!
Our client in Lusaka, is looking for a Mine Engineer, to join their team for a job vacancy within the Mining industry.
Overview
To provide detailed mine planning and engineering to the mine operations site.
Responsibilities
- Hire and build a distributed, happy, and successful team in line with current legislation
- Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team and the operation(s)
- Develop and implement short range mine plans (surface initially then underground)
- Prepare detailed maps, cross sections, or other drawings from geologic, topographic, cost, production, and other data
- Provide drilling and blasting engineering along with engineering management and support for projects as assigned
- Provide production, maintenance, equipment, and unit costs
- Work closely with mining staff to conduct and monitor mining, blending and transport
- Survey land for mining operations
- Assist in the optimization of the mining process
- Determine cost estimates for the development of mining properties
- Identify and implement cost-saving measures
- Ensure that any contract complies with company and governmental policy
- Assist geologists with mapping geological disturbances and anomalies in affected mining areas
- Maintain accurate records and maps
- Assist and cooperate with governmental inspections and corporate audits
- Uphold environmental health and safety policies
- Understand mining KPIs and seek to improve them
- Draft quarterly OKRs and mining KPIs for teams
- Lead and drive significant results for multiple teams.
- Leading business critical cross-functional initiatives in addition to managing a team.
- Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train engineering seniors to do managerial interviews
- Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes
- Hold regular 1:1s with team members and skip-level 1:1s with indirect reports
- Provide management mentorship
- Enable team planning collaboration within mining groups
- Contribute to the sense of psychological safety of multiple teams.
- Give regular and clear feedback around the individual’s performance
- Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for the company are met, by working with functional team members
Education and Training Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, geomatics, geology, or civil engineering
- Experience in surface mining, short range mine planning, drilling and blasting, geological modelling, and surveying.
Professional Organizations and Associations (Optional)
- Registered as a Professional Engineer
- Societies for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.
