Description MAIN PURPOSE: The Mine Engineer will report to the Senior Mine Engineer. This role is accountable for providing engineering support for mine design, ventilation, drill and blast and mine projects.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES/ACTIVITIES:
- Participate in Department and individual Health & Safety Management plans, perform work according to Eagle Mine policies and procedure, comply with Federal & State regulations.
- Develop infrastructure designs and plans to support mining; to include ventilation, water management, and LTE network.
- Responsible for designing, planning, optimizing, and maintaining the underground ventilation and environmental control systems
- Conduct routine ventilation surveys to maintain compliance with Eagle Mine policies and government regulations
- Generate, update, and distribute official underground escapeway maps in compliance with regulatory standards
- Prepare, verify, and approve drill and blast designs as required
- Support technical reviews, cost forecasting, resource allocation, life of mine, monthly, and weekly progress tracking, and reporting as required
- Review current mining operations and investigate other methods to improve efficiency in mine operations
- Support mine projects to include AFE, pre-feasibility studies, and project reporting and tracking
- Develop, plan, and manage underground engineering capital and operating projects to include AFEs, pre-feasibility studies, and project reporting and tracking
- Undertake continuous improvement projects related to mining or maintenance activities as directed.
- Conduct project evaluations on mine improvement projects and present results to management.
- Support the drill and blast planning and scheduling in accordance with the short-range mine plan
- Support initiatives by identifying opportunities, products, or techniques for reducing drill and blast costs while improving the productivity of our loading fleet
- Other duties as assigned
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Mining Engineering or related field; appropriate combination of education and experience may be acceptable in lieu of degree requirements.
- 1-5 years of technical and/or operations experience in underground mining environment required.
- High level of competence using mining software such as Deswik, Vulcan, Ventsim preferred.
- Knowledge with mine ventilation systems required.
- Experience in operations with complex multi ore body planning preferred.
- Strong safety, health and environment commitment and improvement mindset required.
- Strong problem-solving skills preferred.
KEY PERSONAL COMPETENCIES:
- Action Oriented - Initiates timely action to address important issues.
- Collaborates - Encourages unity rather than us vs. them thinking
- Communicates Effectively - Clear, concise, and professional in communication.
- Decision Quality - Considers various inputs, criteria, and trade-offs to arrive at effective decisions and recommendations.
- Ensures accountability - Follows through on commitments.
- Manages Ambiguity - Accepts needed change despite the uncertainty it brings.
HSEC ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Everyone in the workplace is responsible for his or her own safety and for the safety of their co-workers. Employees are responsible for performing all tasks in accordance with relevant HSEC Site Procedures, so as to work safely and keep the workplace safe. Eagle Mine, LLC is responsible for determining steps required to ensure health and safety of all employees, protection of the environment, and the community. Specifically, all employees must:
- Accept personal responsibility for HSEC
- Identify hazards, unsafe actions, and conditions that could result in damage to property, injury, impacts to the environment, and the community
- Obey any instruction issued to protect their own personal health and safety, and the health and safety of others, protection of the environment and the community.
- Report, as soon as practicable to their Manager any situations where HSEC requirements are not being conformed to within their work area
- Avoid endangerment to any other person through any act or omission
- Only use equipment you are trained to use and operate the equipment in a way that is safe, protects the environment and doesn’t cause undue community impacts.
- Participate in HSEC training provided to them
- Report all incidents; including but not limited to injuries, near miss, community interactions and impacts, environmental impacts, spills, unsafe work practices, etc.