Specialist LOAPTechnicalMining - Johannesburg, South Africa - De Beers Group

    De Beers Group
    De Beers Group Johannesburg, South Africa

    Found in: Talent ZA C2 - 1 week ago

    De Beers Group background
    Associate / Permanent Employee
    Description
    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.