Production Engineer

Role Details:

Reporting to the Senior Engineer: Production, you will facilitate the safe and optimal extraction of gold from underground mining operations.

Safety is a core value at Gold Fields, and we expect all levels of employees to always act in a manner that seeks to enhance the safety culture and performance of our company.

This role is offered on an 8 days on 6 days off roster and is Fly in Fly out from Perth.

Benefits include:
Gold Fields has a vast array of benefits including:

• 6 % Site Allowance & Quarterly Bonus Scheme & Private Health Insurance Allowance
• Salary continuance scheme and life insurance
• Virgin Velocity reward points
• Continual training and ability to expand your career
• Salary Sacrifice options

Duties of the role:

• Develop and implement short-term schedules, ensuring they are in line with the operational targets of the monthly and quarterly production plans
• Design of stopes and subsequent drill and blast plans to maintain minimal dilution and maximum recovery
• Develop, implement and record mine information to ensure safe and economic target delivery
• Reconciliation of mined plan versus actual to identify improvement areas
• Interact with all members of the technical and operational mining team and ensure goal unity through concise communication
• Actively identifying risks and threats to safely achieving targets and develop, establish and manage programs to ensure risk elimination/minimisation
• Apprising the Senior Engineer of issues that may affect safe and efficient production through frequent communication in an appropriate manner
• Enhancing the capability of the business to achieve improved performance and growth by actively contributing to business and cultural improvement initiatives, encouraging team members to participate and identify barriers to goal achievement
• Undertake additional / alternative responsibilities as reasonably requested by the Senior Engineer: Production
• Facilitating the Lean and Short-interval control meetings
• Departmental data management

About You:

You will have:

• Qualifications in Mining Engineering
• Underground engineering experience, with exposure to all production phases, preferably gold.
• Completion of underground time
• WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency or ability to obtain is desirable
• Exposure to contract mining environments
• Experience using Microsoft office and mining software such as Deswik
• Current WA Dangerous Goods Card
• Valid Driver’s License

Applications can be submitted via: https://careers.goldfields.com/Australia

We are committed to achieving a diverse and inclusive workforce, and strongly encourage applications from female, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, as well as candidates with culturally diverse backgrounds.