Job Description:

• Independently conduct Mine Planning reviews, providing suitable recommendations and drive implementation rollout on site.
• Mentor and provide guidance to site-based engineers and operational teams to ensure implementation success of the plan and increase technical capability.
• Autonomously manage consultants engaged in the execution of specific work packages.
• Proactively support the LOAP process by providing inputs, assumptions and constraints as required.
• Support the consolidation, review, documentation and presentation of inputs to senior leadership.
• Independently complete assigned mine planning tasks aligned with the scope, specifications and standards for LOAP development, assessment and implementation utilising relevant software.
• Provide detailed mine planning and operational execution expertise to support process.
• Complete operational testing to ensure that LOA plans may be executed with confidence in the field.
• Proactively engage with and influence key stakeholders to build alignment and drive integrated planning outcomes.
• Support the development and implementation of systems, processes and standards for LOAP execution.
• Maintain and adhere to planning, scheduling and reporting systems for LOAP execution.
• Identify and assess opportunities to maximise value to Anglo American while always ensuring safety, health and environmental impacts are considered appropriately to promote sustainable operations.
• Identify, mitigate and escalate all risks that might affect successful delivery of LOAP plans.
• Support the review of LOAP options for business planning and investment decisions as required.
• Participate in Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Reporting processes on an annual basis as required.
• Participate in the review of measures for mining operations to monitor compliance to plan.

Qualifications:

• Required: expertise must have been obtained from a formal qualification in Mining Engineering or other relevant Engineering discipline. Qualifications such as:
• Minimum requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering.
• Desired: Masters or PhD in relevant discipline.

Role-specific knowledge:

• Demonstrated experience working in an operational mining environment preferably with the relevant commodity.
• Demonstrated application of academic qualifications through experience working in the field.
• A demonstrated thought leader and considered an accomplished practitioner in strategic mine planning.
• Track record of leading ideas generation; translating these into practical initiatives to be implemented and demonstration of successful execution and delivery of LOAP for individual mine operations.