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Mine Planning Engineer Australia

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Barrick is the world leader in gold production with the industry's largest unhedged gold production and reserves. With over 20,000 employees around the globe, our vision is to be the world's best gold mining company by finding, acquiring, developing and producing quality reserves in a safe, profitable and socially responsible manner. Achieving our vision depends on having the best employees in the world.
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Barrick is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has 27 mining operations with many advanced exploration projects located across 5 continents and a large number of tenements located on some of the most prolific and prospective mineral trends. 11 of Barrick’s mining operations are found within the Australia Pacific region, with its regional head office located in Perth, Western Australia.
Barrick Kanowna has a strong presence in the Eastern-Goldfields of Western Australia centred around the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. The Kanowna operation processes 2 million tonnes of refractory and free milling ore per annum from three underground mines in the region. It has significant exploration lease holdings and is one of the largest employers in the area.
The Position:
The Mine Planning Engineer provides mine planning, designs and technical support to optimise the mine operations, enabling the business to meet its long and short term objectives in terms of production and cost.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Ensure that development planning incorporates the short, medium and long term planning requirements
  • Help to identify strategies to optimize mining process with a view to increasing mine production
  • Assist with the delivery of continuous improvement targets and monitor the achievement of these targets.
  • Providing engineering advice, designs and costs for budget and SBP to management team;
  • Planning for future mining of the reserve, to ensure it is accessed in the most effective way
Position Requirements:
  • 4 years mining experience
  • Degree in Mining Engineering
  • Understanding of Backfill systems/Paste fill
  • Basic Geotechnical systems/methodology
  • General Mine 2-4d and Mine CAD skills
The Company is committed to high quality safety, environmental and continuous improvement practices and applicants should be able to demonstrate shared values in this area.
This position offers a competitive salary package in line with qualifications and experience. Standard benefits include superannuation, premium private health cover for the whole family, salary continuance, salary packaging options and 20 days annual leave per year
This is a Residential Position based in Kalgoorlie

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