Mine Planning Technician

WHAT DOES AGNICO EAGLE VALUE?

At Agnico Eagle, our values never waver. We believe in trust, respect, equity, family and responsibility. Why? Because they express who we are, and they have helped us succeed in business for over 60 years. We value you – your unique set of skills and experience. We value your willingness to build those skills and make a meaningful contribution to our company. And, we value your commitment to treat every person on our team with respect, helping us to operate safely, protect the environment and make a positive contribution to our local communities.

About Our Operation

Canadian-based and led, Agnico Eagle is Canada's largest mining company and the second largest gold producer in the world. It produces precious metals from operations in Canada, Australia, Finland and Mexico and has a pipeline of high-quality exploration and development projects. Agnico Eagle is a partner of choice within the mining industry, recognized globally for its leading sustainability practices. Agnico Eagle was founded in 1957 and has consistently created value for its shareholders, declaring a cash dividend every year since 1983.

Agnico Eagle Mines' Macassa Mine is situated on the traditional homelands of the Apitipi Anicinapek Nation, Beaverhouse First Nation, and Matachewan First Nation. In honoring our relationships with and commitments to our Partner Nations, Agnico Eagle prioritizes the hiring of Members from these Nations. To support this commitment, members from these Nations seeking employment opportunities at the Macassa Mine are encouraged to self-identify during the job application process. This ensures that we can consider your application appropriately in line with our dedication to supporting our Partner Nations.

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Your Next Challenge

Reporting to the Mine Planning General Supervisor, you will be part of the Engineering Department. You will also ensure that the goals and objectives are achieved while promoting and respecting Agnico Eagle’s values, Health & Safety Code of Conduct and the environment.

• Produce development and stope layouts;
• Provide plans and design layouts to all within distribution list;
• Ensure all design information is available for survey prints to be issued;
• Check work of peers for correctness and accuracy;
• Design a mining area, with minimum direction and supervision, from a concept provided for them;
• Develop mining plans in conjunction with other departments such as maintenance, electrical, geology and underground and are required to follow all acts regulations under the OHSA and Reg. 854;
• Lead conceptual meetings, identifying new development requirements that may be coming due and identifying all projects, which may be falling behind;
• Stay current of activities within respective headings and remain up-to-date of production, development and drilling rates to accurately schedule and prioritize required work;
• Reconcile stopes and development upon completion;
• Paste cycle tracking- ensuring all plans and prints are available for paste filling stopes;
• Provide input to the Scheduling Team to develop and maintain a rolling 3-month plan, which will allow the mine to meet its production/exploration commitments and goals;
• Work jointly with Underground Captains to develop daily and weekly plans in a timely manner;
• Visits to underground workings regularly to assess conditions, gather data and make recommendations for improvements;
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• Technical Diploma in Mining Engineering or equivalent;
• Relevant experience in an operating mine;
• Experience in underground Hard Rock Mining Environment is considered an asset;
• Working knowledge of mine design software is considered an asset (Deswik – Scheduler, CAD & Op’s);
• Excellent working knowledge of all Microsoft Office Suite applications, especially Outlook, Excel, Word Teams & PowerPoint.
  
  

Your Work Schedule

• Schedule: 4/3 schedule at our Macassa Mine in Kirkland Lake, ON.