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The Opportunity
Reporting to the Principal Mining Engineer – LoM Planning, you will develop mine plans across various time horizons from 5 year through to Life of Mine, supporting sustaining project studies for MinRes' iron ore operations.
You will engage with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure business-wide objectives and constraints are embedded into long-term planning outcomes.
Working across corporate offices and in close collaboration with operations, Technical Services and the design and construction teams. You will play a key role in unlocking value through mine life extension, greenfields projects and high quality mine closure planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain mining models from first principles, reflecting updated resource knowledge, extraction assumptions, sensitivity analysis and operational performance
- Conduct pit optimisations and pit shell selections to maximise strategic value
- Produce designs for ultimate pits, stages, waste dumps and mine layouts to support strategic level mine planning
- Engage with key stakeholders across the business to develop a thorough understanding of objectives and constraints that inform strategic planning assumptions and decisions
- Synthesise and process data to develop useable, repeatable assumptions for input into strategic mine plans
- Scope, design and integrate rehabilitation and closure planning into greenfields and project execution phases
- Undertake scenario and project analysis to support approvals, reserve reporting and life extension opportunities
Develop and adjust mine layouts in response to strategic risks and opportunities, including detail to support primary and secondary mining approvals and efficient mine closure
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What is Required:
- Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering or related discipline
- Extensive experience in operational mining engineering or strategic mine planning roles highly regarded
- Advanced skills in mine planning software (Vulcan, Surpac, Minemax, Alastri suite of programs) with advanced skills in MS Office, Power BI and GIS tools highly regarded
- Experience within bulk commodity supply chains and multiple commodities and/or multiple processing environments
- Experience in a production analysis and improvement role highly regarded
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement
- Ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing demands to meet targets
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a collaborative and agile mindset
About Mineral Resources
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.
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