The Role
Dacian Gold is now seeking to employ a Senior Mining Engineer / Alternate Quarry Manager provide coordination and technical expertise for the mining activities of their Open Pit mining operations.
 
This role is offered on 9 days on, 5 days off Fly In Fly Out roster from Perth to Laverton.

Reporting to the Mining Manager – Open Pit, responsibilities of this role will include;

• Fulfil the role of Statutory Alternate Quarry Manager when required;
• Manage the delivery of short and medium term production targets;
• Assist with management of the open pit contractor to achieve both short and long term production targets;
• Plan, design, review, adjust and optimise production designs and plans such as development, drill and blast and project items to ensure timely and cost effective delivery of production targets and projects;
• Plan, review and adjust mine designs to ensure timely provision of approved mine plans for issue to operational personnel;
• Assist in establishing mine technical services systems, processes, systems and standards, to deliver robust production functions for the MMGP. The systems established must ensure effective consultation with all technical service departments including geology and surveying;
• Ensure that mine infrastructure requirements are adequately accounted for in all mine schedules and that infrastructure projects are comprehensively scoped, specified, procured, resourced and installed as required by the mine schedule;
• Assist in the development of ‘Life of Mine’ designs including the provision of information that ensures designs and schedules are reasonable and achievable;
• Liaise with MMGP technical teams and provide input and assistance as required, including advice and review of the impact of production requirements and ability to meet both short and long term development and stope production targets;
• Provide leadership and guidance to technical personnel and manage the resources for which you are responsible such that support is available to the wider MMGP team; and
• Reasonable duties as is required to ensure smooth operation of the mine;

The Person
Dacian is in an exciting growth phase.  The culture is representative of this phase – an ‘all hands on deck’ team approach is taken by all staff to ensure that we meet and exceed schedule, targets and deliverables.

We are looking for a Senior Mining Engineer who is highly motivated and enjoys working alongside likeminded professionals in a growing team and a growing company.  Someone who is keen to get in on the ground floor and share their knowledge whilst gaining exposure to multiple parts of the wider operation.

The ideal candidate for this position will meet the following criteria;

• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or related discipline
• Unrestricted Quarry Manager’s Certificate
• A minimum of five year’s post-graduate experience
• Sound knowledge of statutory safety requirements relevant to mining
• Technical expertise in relation to Open Pit mine design, drill and blast, optimization and planning
• Proficient with computer scheduling software (Deswick, Surpac, etc)
• Operational site based mining experience (ideally Gold) and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic production environment

Shortlisting for this role will commence immediately.  Please apply now.