Reference No. 267 11 RR

Job Description:

Our client, an international mining group is seeking a UG Mine Manager who will build, develop, and lead an effective team capable to deliver the strategy to transition their mine to a major underground operation, to be executed in line with specific instructions from Senior Manager – Underground Mining and requirements of relevant Mining Legislation.

Responsibilities:

• Understands key underground production and development processes in large scale trackless mining environments.
• Understanding of safe and effective underground production practices, management, support systems.
• Establishing Paste and Backfill  infrastructure in Underground environment.
• Able to manage performance based on interpretation of data and can initiate and drive the operational improvements as required.
• Demonstrated ability of delivering to production and cost targets.
• Ability to effectively lead and communicate to all levels of the team.
• Training and developing new and inexperienced workers to become safe and effective underground.
• Strong understanding of mining cost drivers and their impact to the overall financial results of the operation.
• Ability to develop operational budgets
• Ability to drive the establishment of required planning systems and approaches.
• Strong knowledge in underground contract management practices and demonstrated ability in managing underground mining contracts.
• Understands company project management standards and has applied them in a minor project to conceptual level.
• Ability to lead a minor project and interact with test work and engineering consultant service providers.
• Generates innovative solutions, which continuously improve the performance of existing assets, products, services or processes.
• Build, develop and lead the mining team in line with instructions given by the Senior Underground Manager.
• Establish and maintain processes to ensure the development of optimised short-term, and medium-term plans that ensure delivery of the budget requirements and the operations strategy.
• Ensure that the use of all resources is optimised to ensure delivery of the plan.
• Identify areas for improvement in operational blueprints (systems, processes, procedures and tasks)
• Establish and maintain systems for identifying opportunities to drive operational excellence.
• Ensure collaboration with all departments to achieve streamlined delivery to plan.
• Identify and interpret safety risks and resolve emerging issues; and ensuring that appropriate focus and resources are available to achieve safety objectives.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• 10+ years' proven experience in mine production in underground mining environment
• Bachelor of Mining Engineering (BEng) or an equivalent tertiary qualification.
• Underground Mine Managers Certificate.
• Advanced understanding of project management standards and has applied them in a minor – medium project to conceptual level.
  
   

Benefits and Contractual information:

• Permanent opportunity
• Competitive annual package

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Ruan Roodt

Senior Consultant

CA Mining

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