Mine Planning Engineer
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Job Summary
The Mine Planning Engineer is responsible for designing, scheduling, and optimizing mining sequences to ensure safe, sustainable, and profitable mineral extraction. This role bridges the gap between long-term strategic life-of-mine (LOM) goals and daily pit or underground operations. The ideal candidate uses advanced spatial modeling and scheduling software to balance ore quality, equipment utilization, and waste management.
Location: Challis, Idaho, United States (2x2 rotation)
Key Responsibilities
- Mine Design & Layout: Develop and optimize detailed pit phases, pushbacks, stopes, haul roads, waste dumps, and stockpile layouts using specialized industry software.
- Production Scheduling: Prepare rolling short-to-medium-term mine plans and production schedules (ranging from weekly targets to 24-month forecasts) to meet extraction and processing goals.
- Reconciliation & Variance Analysis: Track, analyze, and report on actual daily production versus the established mine plan. Identify deviations, analyze root causes, and implement corrective action plans.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate directly with Geology, Geotechnical, Survey, and Daily Operations to integrate physical constraints, regulatory conditions, and safety measures into executable mine plans.
- Economic Optimization: Run evaluation scenarios to maximize resource recovery, ensure appropriate ore blending, minimize haulage cycle times, and lower cost-per-tonne metrics.
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Responsibilities
The Mine Planning Engineer designs, schedules, and optimizes mining sequences to ensure safe and profitable mineral extraction. They bridge the gap between long-term strategic goals and daily operations by coordinating with various departments.
Requirements
The role requires proficiency in advanced spatial modeling and scheduling software to manage pit phases and production targets. Candidates must be capable of performing variance analysis and implementing corrective actions to meet extraction goals.
Skills
- Mine design
- Production scheduling
- Variance analysis
- Spatial modeling
- Haulage optimization
- Ore blending
- Geotechnical coordination
- Life-of-mine planning
- Waste management
- Equipment utilization
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Categories
- Engineering
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Environmental & Sustainability
Keywords
- Mine Planning
- Life-of-mine
- LOM
- Production Scheduling
- Spatial Modeling
- Pit Design
- Stopes
- Haul Roads
- Waste Dumps
- Stockpile Layouts
- Variance Analysis
- Geology
- Geotechnical
- Survey
- Economic Optimization
- Resource Recovery
- Ore Blending
- Cost-per-tonne
- Mining Engineering