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Description

You will bring strong experience in planning, scheduling, and design of underground production engineering and construction to this position.  In support of these activities, you will be responsible to chair weekly planning meetings, engage mine operations, process, site services, and maintenance departments and set priorities. From these meetings you will compile rolling 3-month plans and 2 week plans with reconciliations of actual performance to plan.

Requirements of the position:
- Bachelors degree in geological, geotechnical or mine engineering
- You must be eligible for registration with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS)
- A minimum of five or more years of relevant underground production mining experience (longhole stoping and blasting design experience preferred)
- Equivalent combination of education and work experience considered
- Strong communication, planning and organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Strong proficiency with 3D mine design software (Vulcan)
- Experience in planning and scheduling
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Ability to work with little supervision and to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Work a rotational schedule and commute to site by aircraft

Assets:
- Experience in backfill, shotcrete, and grouting recipe creation, planning, placement, and QA/QC
-Experience in raisebore/drillhole design and layout creation.
- Experience in other underground mine engineering functions (drafting, geotechnical monitoring, surveying, ventilation)
- Familiarity with mine planning software (Deswick, XPAC, etc.)
- Good working knowledge of AutoCAD, Excel, Access, PowerPoint

Applicants will be considered for a level within the job progression which is appropriate to their qualifications.