Onsite Principal Surface Mining Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Surface Mining Engineer at Gold Fields ensuring technical guidance and risk management across global operations. Leading team efforts to develop best practices in open pit mining.

Responsibilities

  • Provide surface mining leadership and guidance by delivering proactive safety, technical, and operational support across the Group.
  • Develop and maintain mining standards and risk controls, including surface mining SOPs, technical requirements, contractual diligence, quality assurance, and risk management practices.
  • Drive performance benchmarking and KPI implementation, including drill and blast strategy, tactics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Support strategic and operational planning, contributing to business planning, mine studies, capital projects, contract reviews, and ore reserve/resource processes.
  • Promote capability development and technology advancement by mentoring personnel and investigating, benchmarking, and implementing leading mining technologies.
  • As required review, quantify, and develop plans to mitigate surface mining risks and ensure effective communication to all stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Mining Engineering qualifications
  • Extensive demonstrated experience of relevant industry experience in both technical and operational capacities
  • Knowledge of various surface mining operating environments in a variety of operational and technical roles
  • Proven technical execution skills (data collection, analysis and fit for purpose modelling)
  • Knowledge of various surface mining operating systems including fleet selection and performance benchmarking
  • Project Management, continuous improvement, and management operating systems experience
  • Capable of interacting at a technical level within different geographical Regions and at different levels within the organization
  • Resilient, adaptable, and results-driven with a collaborative leadership style.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance allowance
  • Access to Long Service Leave after 5 years
  • Salary continuance and life insurance

Job title

Principal Surface Mining Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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