- Certificate
- Northern Cape,
Posted 2 months ago

Ref: 696241-101
Job Description:
The incumbent will be responsible to construct mine excavation layouts for short-, medium- and long-term planning and control purposes in compliance with statutory and company requirements.
Position details:
Type: Permanent
Operation: Mineral Resource Management
Key responsibilities:
Arrange, schedule and co-ordinate planning meetings
Schedule and manage the short interval control meeting
Keep record of all decisions taken in mine planning meetings
Report deviations from plan monthly
Assist to generate relevant action plans to overcome production shortfalls
Update the rolling plan
Maintain mine design according to mine standards
Monitoring and ensuring mining according to plan and design
Assignment of workplace
Ensure the monthly plan is aligned to the budget.
Compile the month plan and ensuring that is signed-off
Capture and distribute the high-risk area identified during planning meetings
Ensure that the risk matrix has been done on all ends (workplaces) before mining commences
Implement and communicate planning changes to the production personnel
Ensure that all the planning minutes are available on the server
Liaise with other MRM department (i.e., geology, survey, ventilation, rock engineering) to ensure adherence to quality mining
Capture and distribute the high-risk area identified during planning meetings
Adjustment or capturing of new workplace during the month
Prompt design changes due to geology or structures
Assist mining personnel with any planning related or technical issues i.e., capturing of daily bookings
Month-end reconciliation of the planned vs. actual i.e., broken square meters, tons, grade ounces, waste and reef meters
Compilation of month end reports
Capturing of daily bookings
Compilation and distribution of daily report.
Analysing and distribution of trends and statistics i.e., loss blast analysis report.
Computing the analysing of the measuring results i.e., depletion rate vs development
Enable ease of ore reserve management i.e., statistics on mining blocks available
Update the monthly focus and prepare the safety meeting presentation
Flag any discrepancy from pre planning and month plan by indication and reporting on critical ends mined
Update the yearly focus based on measuring results
Surpac administrations
MS Project – i.e., M/O Equipping schedule
Job Qualification & Experience:
Minimum requirements:
Qualification
Grade 12/ NQF Level 4
Mining related Degree or Diploma
Microstation, Mine CADD, Mine 2-4D, Studio 5, EPS and GEMCOM background
Intermediate level user of mining related drafting software
Valid Driver’s license
Experience:
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in mining environment (Manganese open pit & underground)
Experience in mine planning, design, and scheduling
Proficient in Microsoft Office
Skills/competencies:
Short to mid-term Planning
Generate Surpac designs and schedules
Generate relevant Planning reports
Liaise with production personnel and other stakeholders as per the Mine Planning Process
Conduct benchmarking exercises
Prepare the budget plan
Compile the planning documentation i.e., TSD
Sign-off the mining rates and mining dimensions
Short term planning – design and schedule the three-to-five-year plan
Copying, creating and maintaining of all Surpac files.
Ensure that the final reporting scenarios and file names are saved on the server
Revise boundary and investment centres.
Ensures that the Resource Model is approved by the MRM manager
Evaluate the budget against the latest resource model
Run different scenarios based on profitability.
Smoothing of the production profiles
Long term Planning
Life of mine design and schedule
Extraction strategy
Design Parameters
I.C. requirements (half level profile) and shafts capacity management
Defining boundaries and confident level
Defining shafts name plates and revision
Evaluation of the LoM figures – t, m², m³, t/m³ & MTU
Analyse figures and reports (production profiles per section)
Smooth profiles and adherence to Shafts name plates Cost the LOM
Company Description:
Consultant to the mining industry
This advert is being advertised in collaboration with our recruitment partner MCHIR.
Mine Planner, Northern Cape (Microstation, Mine CADD, Mine 2-4D, Studio 5, EPS and GEMCOM) – Ref: 696241-101
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