Job title : Chief Rock Engineer – Mokopane
Job Location : Limpopo,
Deadline : October 23, 2024
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Job Description:
Key tasks of the role are:
- Develop/contribute to tactics and plans for mining successive cutbacks at increasing depth and complexity.
- Draft Rock Engineering systems, policies, protocols and standards to satisfy Regulatory, AA Group Geotechnical Standard and mandatory Fall of Ground Critical Control requirements.
- Participate in industry technical forums and liaison with external parties (e.g. local government, other mining companies).
- Benchmarking the state of rock engineering practice in relation to established best practice (technology).
- Review and sign off mandatory codes of practice and rock engineering related systems.
- Investigate opportunities to optimize efficiency and cost, driven by rock engineering input.
- Conduct and sign-off geotechnical modelling for mine design and sequence purposes.
- Conduct/contribute to feasibility studies for new on-mine projects.
- Develop and implement the monitoring strategy to ensure safe operations and maximised extraction.
- Liaison with Principal Rock Engineering to facilitate Governance.
- Responsible for the rock engineering service at the mine, including Human Resources optimization and talent management.
- Business and technical risk analysis.
- Cross discipline (Mining, Planning, Safety, Geology, Hydrogeology and UG Geotechnical) input in mine planning.
- Support the overall operational management of the Mine.
- Manage QA/QC of support and rockfall systems in conjunction with Principal Rock Engineering.
- This role is at a band 6 level reporting to the Technical Services Manager.
Qualifications:
- Legal requirement: Chamber of Mines Rock Mechanics Certificate
- Mining or Geology Degree (4 years) or equivalent
- Member of South African National Institute of Rock Engineering
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- 8 years Post qualification experience in mining rock engineering
- Experience in managing a team of qualified rock engineering/strata control staff.
- Established expertise rock engineering
- Sound knowledge to integrate with mining, Safety & Health. Legislation, ventilation, geology and planning disciplines.
- Sound knowledge pertaining to people management.
- The understanding of and experience in asset management principles around mining, equipment and associated operational / maintenance standards /philosophies will be required.
- Working knowledge of specialist rock engineering computer programs and models.
- Well versed about world “best practice” and latest research findings.
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