Principal Planning Engineer (Open Pit)

From humble beginnings in 2011, Evolution Mining is now a leading gold producer, operating six mines across Australia and Canada. Enacting our vision to be inspired people creating a premier global gold company, we are indeed a bold team with a bright future. Our operational diversity offers our employees access to many experiences and career opportunities within the one company. So, whether you choose to work at one of our underground or open pit operations, explore for our future as part of our Discovery team, or join our Group Office, we know you’ll have a bright future with us.

Working in our Brisbane Office, you have a front row seat to our company vision and are a part of the bold, inspired teams who are engineering its success. We’re an agile, entrepreneurial company and we value smart people and creative thinking. When you work with us, you’ll always have the opportunity to progress from where you started. Based in the Brisbane CBD, our people work with teams located across Australia and Canada which makes for interesting work and countless ways to learn and grow.

Your Benefits 

At Evolution, we support, develop and reward everyone who chooses to be a part of our bright future. Your benefits include relocation support assistance, novated car leasing, life insurance and income protection, short-term and long-term incentives, an employee share scheme, referral bonuses, a recognition program, study assistance, discounted health insurance and wellness days. 

We understand that flexible work means something different to everyone and encourage you to have a conversation about the flexible work options available.

The Principal Planning Engineer (Open Pit) will unlock the value of Evolution Mining’s portfolio through consolidated strategic planning of our Open Pit assets and the delivery of the Life of Mine Plan for CGO and MGO within the Long Term Planning fuction.

About the role

This role is responsible for identifying opportunities for value accretion across the business, supporting the development of ongoing and new projects and providing guidance on current Evolution and global best practice and innovation in Open Pit Mine Planning.

• Identify site strategic scenarios and deliver optimised mine designs and schedules to enable selection of a preferred pathway for the Evolution Mining Life of Mine plan
• Enage with corporate and site stakeholders to collate and integrate sound inputs into the possible scenarios
• Contribute to the identification of risks and opportunities, including critical action development. 
• Participate in person, during LOM-Season workshop at the technical hub. 
• Assist the Study team in delivery of the Mine Extension Studies. 
• Collaborate with site teams to align tactical objective with strategic plan 

About you

To succeed in this position, you will have proven experience in long term mine planning or studies.  It is also important that you have or can demonstrate:

Capability in influencing and developing Open Cut Technical Services Management practices and supporting the professional and technical growth of the mining engineering teams.

• Effectively communicate complex process ideas at all levels with an ability to build relationships across functions and operations from Operator to Board level.
• Proven experience at a comparable level within an organisation in either a Group (or significant Site based operation) where you held accountability, delivering operational efficiency, driving accurate and reliable interpretations/decisions, and implementing best practice in both technical and operational areas.
• Software capability to derive and deleiver an optimised strategic open pit mine plan and schedule (Deswik, Minemax and Whittle exposure advantageous)
• Bachelor or Masters qualification in mining engineering or related discipline
• Significant open pit experience in the Mining Industry - preferrable Gold.

At Evolution, as our name suggests, change and transformation is in our DNA. We want the Evolution experience to be your career highlight. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce that represents the communities in which we operate. We provide a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all and candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We are focused on keeping our people safe and healthy and creating sustainable value in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Join our bold team to start your next exciting chapter. 

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