MinRes can offer you!
- World Class Facilities: Experience mining excellence at sites equipped with cutting-edge facilities – enjoy award-winning meals crafted by MinRes’ own professional chefs.
- Career Development: We are committed to your professional growth. Upskill, lead, and thrive through industry-leading training, mentoring, and leadership development programs.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We value what matters most. Access a range of benefits designed to support your family, health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and financial future.
The Opportunity
MinRes is seeking Senior Geotechnical Engineer to provide geological support to our provide site-based geotechnical design, hazard management, monitoring, and operational support for mining operations at our Wodgina Lithium site. You will play an integral role ensuring compliance with the Ground Control Management Plan (GCMP) and support safe, efficient mine operations while driving continual improvement in geotechnical practices.
This role commences on an 8D6X roster from Perth.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with business geotechnical requirements, Mine Safety Regulations, and Principal Mining Hazard Management Plans (PMHMP)
- Work with technical and operational stakeholders to implement and maintain the GCMP.
- Work with the technical services team to design and implement risk-based slope monitoring plans.
- Provide risk-based geotechnical advice for geotechnical hazard identification and control.
- Communicate site-specific geotechnical hazard awareness and best practice to the site workforce in formal training sessions.
- Support operations by providing specialist geotechnical inspection and advice related to the tailings storage facilities.
- Conduct geotechnical mapping of freshly exposed batters and maintain the geotechnical hazard map.
- Maintain monthly Quality Control (QC) reports focusing on geotechnical hazard management, pit slope monitoring, post blast assessment and design compliance.
- Apply a trigger-action response plan (TARP) system to monitor slope stability and respond proactively to progressive deformation trends
- Maintain the fall of ground register, geotechnical mapping databases, and geotechnical work requests.
- Plan and budget for geotechnical monitoring equipment and geotechnical data collection tooling.
- Collaborate with operations, planning, technical services, and other sites to strengthen geotechnical practices and support safe, efficient production outcomes.
What is required?
- Recognised tertiary degree in Civil, Geological Engineering, or Engineering Geology (or related discipline)
- Post-graduate qualification in Geotechnical Engineering / Engineering Geology advantageous
- Experience working within an open pit production mining environment providing site-based monitoring, data collection and geotechnical engineering advice.
- Proficient in hazard mapping, data collection, stability modelling, and geotechnical reporting.
- Familiar with industry-standard mining and geotechnical software (e.g., RocScience suite, Surpac).
About Wodgina
The Wodgina lithium is a world class hard rock lithium asset, located 120km south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. MinRes manages all mining operations at Wodgina, including a spodumene concentrate processing plant with an annual capacity of 900,000 tonnes (SC5.5).
About Mineral Resources (MinRes)
MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX’s best-performing companies since listing in 2006.
At MinRes, the future's bright. Be part of our next chapter.
