Specialist Engineer, Mining, Short-term planning
Newmont · Kenyasi
Workplace Type: Onsite
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The Accra Hub is Newmont’s corporate office in Ghana, serving as the strategic centre for our operations in West Africa. Located in Ghana’s vibrant capital city, the Accra Hub brings together a diverse range of professionals, including project managers, engineers, finance experts, human resources practitioners, communications experts, and external relations professionals, who support the Ahafo South and Ahafo North mines while collaborating across Newmont’s global network.
The office fosters a dynamic and collaborative environment, integrating local expertise with Newmont’s world-class standards. The office fosters a dynamic and collaborative environment, integrating local expertise with Newmont’s world-class standards. Working with our Accra team means being part of a mission to responsibly unlock Ghana’s mineral wealth and uplift communities.
Joining the Accra Hub offers the opportunity to grow your career, collaborate with talented professionals across Newmont’s global network and help shape the future of mining in Ghana.
Your Impact:
- Develop, manage and complete deployment detailed engineering packages, including design, analysis and optimization, to support project execution and ensure alignment with technical standards and project objectives at times through others by leading a team of other Engineers.
As Part of Our Team, You Will:
- Develop and oversee integrated underground mine plans from the medium-term horizon through daily execution, ensuring alignment with the Business Plan, Quarterly Forecast, 5-Year Plan, production objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the development, review and issue of rolling medium-term, monthly, weekly and daily schedules, ensuring tactical plans remain aligned with approved production, development and financial commitments.
- Ensure that underground development, production stopes, backfill, ventilation, egress, mine services and infrastructure are integrated and physically sequenced to deliver safe, practical and executable plans.
- Establish and maintain fit-for-purpose planning inputs, assumptions and controls, including approved models, geotechnical criteria, productivity rates, equipment and workforce assumptions, operating constraints, costs and schedule basis.
- Coordinate cross-functional planning inputs and reviews and secure the technical reviews, operational acceptance and approvals required for plan issues and execution.
- Direct schedule optimization, resource levelling and constraint management, confirming equipment, workforce, services and infrastructure readiness before plan commitment.
- Oversee performance-to-plan, spatial, plan-on-plan and horizon-to-horizon reconciliation, ensuring variances, root causes and inform subsequent plans and assumptions.
- Lead planning and execution risk management, change control, recovery planning, production reforecasting and budget realignment.
- Facilitate planning and commitment reviews, communicate approved priorities and trade-offs, and provide direction and influence to Mine Operations for disciplined plan execution.
- Lead and develop planning capability through work prioritization, coaching, continuous improvement and effective management of assigned specialist or contract resources.
Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):
- Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering from a recognized institution. A closely related engineering degree may be accepted only where accompanied by demonstrable underground mine-design and planning competence
- Applicable Ghana Minerals Commission competency certification, where required by the statutory duties or appointment assigned to the position.
Preferred / desirable Qualifications
- Current professional registration or eligibility for registration with a recognized professional engineering institution, preferably licensing through the Engineering Council Ghana/GhIE pathway.
Experience
- A minimum of 8 years’ relevant mining-engineering experience is required, including substantial recent underground mine-planning experience and demonstrated delivery across short- and medium-term planning horizons.
- Experience must include underground design and scheduling, operational performance analysis and reconciliation, cost/physical integration, risk and change control, and multidisciplinary technical assurance.
- At least 5 years of direct underground mine-planning experience is preferred.
Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of underground mining methods, development and production operations, including the interaction between development, stoping, backfill, drill-and-blast, materials handling and mine services.
- Advanced knowledge of short- and medium-term underground mine design and scheduling, including stope and development design, production sequencing, physical precedence, schedule logic, productivity assumptions, access, congestion and operational constraints. The current scheduling specification requires development, stopes, backfill, ventilation, egress and services to be fully sequenced with appropriate capacities.
- Advanced knowledge of performance-to-plan and mine-plan reconciliation, including spatial and volumetric compliance, plan-on-plan comparison, root-cause analysis, recovery planning and controlled adjustment of planning assumptions.
- Competent knowledge of underground drill-and-blast principles, sufficient to integrate development and stope designs, production drilling, blasting sequences, safe firing requirements and execution constraints into executable plans.
- Competent knowledge of cost and physical modelling, including productivity and cost drivers, physical–financial integration, budget and forecast alignment, and evaluation of operational alternatives.
- Competent knowledge of operational optimization and scenario analysis, including trade-off evaluation, value improvement, schedule risk, variability reduction and identification of practical recovery options.
- Competent knowledge of mine-planning risk management and change control, including identification and ranking of execution risks, mitigation controls, basis-of-schedule changes, horizon alignment and formal approval requirements.
- Competent knowledge of geotechnical, ventilation, hydrogeological and infrastructure interfaces affecting stope geometry, opening dimensions, pillar requirements, ground support, sequence, ventilation capacity, dewatering, utilities and infrastructure readiness.
- Competent knowledge of mine-planning governance, including the Mine Design, Planning and Cost Standard, Underground Mine Design Specification, Mine Scheduling Specification, Basis of Design/Basis of Schedule controls, technical review, QA/QC, approval, version control and records requirements.
- Competent knowledge of integrated business planning, including alignment of tactical and operational plans with the Business Plan, 5-Year Plan and endorsed Resource Development Strategy.
- Ability to develop Operational Plans as forecasts, monthly, weekly and tactical plans that transpose the Business Plan into executable work.
- Knowledge of resource-to-reserve processes and Qualified/Competent Person requirements is preferred, particularly where the specialist will contribute to Business Plan, 5-Year or reserve reporting.
Technical Skills:
- Advanced Underground mine, stope and development design. Formulate, review and ensure safe, executable designs using approved inputs, criteria, geotechnical guidance and operational constraints.
- Advanced short- and medium-term scheduling. Build and ensure integrated schedules covering dependencies, resources, capacities, infrastructure and ventilation, aligned across tactical, Business Plan and longer-term horizons.
- Advanced Deswik design and scheduling. Proficient in Deswik mine design and scheduling.
- Familiar with Pitram usage. Extract, validate and interpret production and equipment data for schedule updates, reconciliation, performance analysis and recovery planning.
- Use of Deswik MDM. Applies controlled data-management, versioning and approved updates to maintain data integrity, traceability and current-plan use.
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite. Performs technical analysis, structured reporting and management-level presentation of plans, performance, risks and options.
- Scenario and options analysis. Tests alternatives, assumptions and constraints, evaluates impacts and recommends defensible actions.
- Advanced reconciliation, spatial compliance and variance analysis. Reconcile actuals to design and schedule, identify root causes and implement approved corrective actions.
- Data analysis and cost/physical integration - Competent. Integrate schedule physicals, productivity, cost, equipment and execution data to support forecasts and decisions.
- Risk assessment and change control - Competent. Maintain planning risks and controls, assess schedule impacts, and apply required review, approval and communication before changing approved plans or assumptions.
- Technical reporting and presentation - Competent. Prepare concise schedule-basis, reconciliation, risk, scenario, physical and cost reports, and present complex conclusions to operational and leadership stakeholders.
- Technical influence and coaching - Competent. Secure stakeholder support, provide technical direction and coach less experienced planners without formal direct-report accountability.
Problem Solving Ability
- Work in established systems and processes.
- Compare data collected from processes with a known model or system.
- Imagine how tasks might be completed without direct, physical, hands-on feedback.
- Solve problems where trial & error may not be sufficient, other methods may be required.
- Extrapolate patterns to make predictions.
- Improve work methods using significant data and patterns, determine whether a diagnosis is correct or whether it may occur from another pattern.
Social Process Skills:
Self-awareness:
- Understand own behavior and is aware of impact on others, adapt behavior to suit context and circumstances.
- Reflect on own behavior in a variety of situations, learning from the interactions, request feedback and identify areas for improvement.
- Recognize and accept the need to put the overall business needs ahead of their own and can deal with the internal conflict/stress that may generate.
Team process:
- Understand role as a team member and team leader (where applicable) and can adjust behavior as needed.
- Understand the behavior of other individuals and the effects on the team, resolve conflicts as needed.
- As a team leader, foster a climate that is inclusive and where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate, receive feedback and coaching.
Collaboration:
- Establish and nurture relationships with stakeholders by listening and asking questions to better understand others.
- Understand how to influence or negotiate with others to achieve productive outcomes.
- Can effectively balance positive interactions with getting the work done.
Your Work Environment:
- The position is located at the Ahafo South site for Apensu Underground project.
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