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- You are responsible for designing, implementing, and ensuring quality assurance/quality control for all ground control practices, which encompass various rock bolting methods, shotcrete applications, and backfill procedures.
- You will play a crucial role in identifying and mitigating potential geotechnical hazards associated with ongoing activities and future mining plans. This involves conducting inspections, monitoring, and utilizing modeling techniques to enhance safety and stability.
- You will be involved in rehabilitation planning, tracking progress, and reporting on the rehabilitation efforts within the mining operations.
- You perform comprehensive reviews of short-range mine planning, which includes development design, drift and fill, long-hole stope design, and backfill design. Your focus will be on addressing geotechnical hazards and concerns.
- You will oversee projects related to ground support, rehabilitation, and backfill placement. This may involve both internal and contractor management to ensure the successful completion of these projects. Additionally, you will be responsible for creating Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) documents for capital projects and purchases.
- You play a pivotal role in mine planning, both in the short and mid-range. This encompasses mine design, backfill design, short-range planning for development, production, and backfill to align with long-range objectives. You will regularly provide weekly and monthly reports on mining progress and conduct plan vs. actual reconciliations. Coordination with geology, survey, and mine operations teams to align priorities is also a part of your responsibilities.
- Ensuring the safety and health of themselves and others in the workplace by being responsible for their actions and taking due care while performing their work
- Identifying, eliminating, and reporting hazards as soon as practicable
- Reporting incidents and accidents as soon as practicable
- Disclosing all information regarding incidents and cooperating in incident investigations
- Assisting in the resolution of health and safety matters in a positive and timely manner
- Using and maintaining PPE
- Providing suggestions for improving work processes
- Assisting Management by supporting change to achieve desired targets
- Ensuring that plant and equipment operate within their safe working limits
- Ensuring that correct equipment is used for the job
- Participating in risk assessment methodology
- Participating in safety initiatives
- Receiving training and instruction as required
- Maintaining good housekeeping standards
- Designs, implements and provides QA/QC for all ground control practices including various rock bolting methods, shotcrete, and backfill.
- Identifies and mitigates potential geotechnical hazards related to current activities and future mining plans through inspections, monitoring, and modeling.
- Rehab planning, tracking, and reporting
- Reviews short-range mine planning including development design, drift & fill and long-hole stope design, and backfill design for geotechnical hazards/concerns
- Projects relating to ground support, rehab, backfill placement: o Internal and/or contractor management to ensure project completion o Creates AFE (authorization for expenditure) documents for capital projects and purchases
- Degree in Geological Engineering, Mining Engineering, or related degree with geotechnical certificate and experience
- 5+ years of underground hardrock mining experience directly involved with geotechnical support and recommendations Technical Competencies Experience and advanced capabilities with any of the following skillsets:
- Ground support techniques and geotechnical modeling
- Project management
- Mine costing and financial analysis techniques to explain variances, evaluate projects and prioritize allocation of resources
Underground Geotechnical Engineer - Alaska, United States - P&C Recruiting | HR
Description
POSITION SUMMARY
As our Geotechnical Engineer, you will inspect, evaluate, and give recommendations regarding ground control and stability of active underground workings at a hard rock mining operation.
Other responsibilities will include backfill analysis, corrosion mapping, pull testing, rehab mapping, and monthly reporting to the engineering and operations groups.
You'll start each day organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing work activities to promote a safe, healthy, and accident-free work environment.You will be called upon to work cooperatively with others as part of a team, and encourage collaboration, trust, and openness among employees.
Here's what you can expect in this role:Complying with all necessary requirements put in place to prevent incidents, injuries or losses
Other Duties May be Assigned Technical functions for the role may include:
o Mine design
o Backfill design
o Short range planning of development, production, and backfill to meet long range goals
o Weekly and Monthly reporting of mining progress
o Plan vs. Actual reconciliation
o Coordinates priorities with geology, survey, and mine operations
In addition to the technical functions above, the following behavioral functions are a key element of the role:
Problem solving:
identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully
Interpersonal Skills:
maintains confidentiality, remains open to others' ideas and exhibits willingness to try new things. Cross-trains with other roles in order to expand skillset of self and others.
Oral communication:
speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, demonstrates group presentation skills and conducts meetings.
Written Communication:
edits work for spelling and grammar, presents numerical data effectively and is able to read and interpret written information.
Planning/organizing:
prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans.
Quality control:
demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure quality. Ensures technical deliverables are provided to customers within time and quality expectations.
Adaptability:
adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
Dependability:
consistently at work, follows instructions, responds to management direction and solicits feedback to improve performance.
Safety and security:
actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures, and uses equipment and materials properly.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience