Medium Term Mine Planning Engineer - Anglo American

This role is open to all the Kumba, Anglo American, and?De Beers Group?employees. Kumba employees?will be given initial consideration for the role. 

We have an exciting position for a Medium-Term Mine Planning Engineer, who will be responsible to support and deliver medium-term mine plans for Sishen Mine.

Be part of the team. The team that makes it happen. 

Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives", delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible

Kumba Iron Ore

We produce high-grade iron ore, the key component in steel widely used in construction and manufacturing across the world. Our activities include all aspects – exploration; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling. In South Africa, we have mining operations in the Northern Cape province, as well as a head office in Centurion, Gauteng, and a port operation in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape.

Job Description:

As a  Medium-Term Mine Planning Engineer, you will provide Technical Services as required and your responsibilities will include: 

• Assisting with Development of Medium Term (5year, budget, 12 months) schedules and mine plans.
• Provide technical expertise and input to short Term Planning.
• Meeting mining objectives and conform to KIO mining standards, geotechnical and operational physical standards to ensure safe mining operations within legislative guidelines.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant legal, environmental, occupational health, and safety and risk management standards and best practices.
• Contributing to continuous improvement and asset optimization initiatives to enhance mining processes.
• Managing internal and external relations, to ensure that business needs are met. 
• Managing a safe and healthy work environment where workers and contractor can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
• Keeping environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance to statutory requirements is met.

This role is in the Technical Services department at a Band 6 level reporting to the Section Manager Long Term Planning

Qualifications:

• BEng – Mining Engineering or BTech
• Driver’s Licence:  Code B (Light Vehicle)

Experience:

• 3 Years Operational experience in Open Cast Mine Planning and related operations
• Good understanding of the mine value chain and affected stakeholders
• Experience in a Medium and/or Long term plan development process would be advantageous
• OPMS/RPM & Deswik planning software experience would be advantageous