Lead Long Term Planning (Open Pit)

Your Impact:

• To lead the development and execution of integrated open-pit long-term mine plans that support five-year and Life of Mine business objectives, reserves and resources deliverables, and informed enterprise, exploration and capital investment decisions.

As Part of Our Team, You Will:

Long-Term Mine Planning and Optimisation

• Formulate optimised open-pit mine designs and detailed phase designs that define the sequence of mining activities over the Life of Mine.
• Develop and maintain integrated long-term mine plans, detailed five-year production plans, development milestones and closure activities.
• Lead the site-specific open-pit planning team to deliver accurate and achievable budgets.
• Conduct options and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making and improve value.
• Formulate and execute cut-off grade strategies that optimise economic returns from mining operations.
• Update mine extension plans in response to exploration results and changing market conditions.

Reserves, Resources and Project Integration

• Lead mineral reserves and resources estimation in accordance with applicable international reporting standards.
• Coordinate conceptual mine-project design, focusing on innovative and cost-effective solutions.
• Integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into long-term planning.
• Present mine and phase designs, options, trade-offs and Life of Mine schedules for stakeholder review, approval and feedback, and facilitate regular plan reviews to incorporate new data and strategic changes.

People Leadership and Collaboration

• Explain the purpose of the team’s work and how it adds value to the business.
• Allocate work, identify critical issues, review delivery and provide feedback and coaching to support team performance.
• Build and develop the team in partnership with the Director Long Term Planning.
• Create an inclusive environment where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate and receive feedback.
• Build stakeholder commitment and lead through influence across multidisciplinary site and leadership teams.

Your Training, Skills and Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Degree in Mining Engineering or other related fields.
• Recognised Competent/Qualified Person for Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources reporting.

Additional Knowledge:

• Practical open-pit mining experience at site.
• Working knowledge of open-pit mine planning, including design, scheduling, business planning, resource-to-reserve conversion and business improvement.
• Knowledge of operational value drivers, open-pit design and scheduling optimisation, mine automation and technologies, functional cost modelling, mine-plan compliance monitoring and safety-in-design concepts.
• Knowledge of mine engineering design and scheduling software, including MineSight, Vulcan or Deswik.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to leadership and supervise and develop Long Term Planning Engineers.
• Technical report writing
• Knowledge of integrated masterplans.

Experience:

• 5-8 minimum years of hands on mine planning experience in open-pit short/medium term and or long-term mine planning.

Technical Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in open-pit mine planning concepts, procedures and software applications.
• Advanced capability to design and implement solutions that optimise value and reduce variability in mine planning.
• Competence in functional cost modelling and related tools.
• People-management capability, including generating stakeholder buy-in and influencing at Site Leadership level to deliver integrated plans.
• Ability to manage time constraints, competing priorities and work prioritisation in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Advanced proficiency in relevant mining software and Microsoft Office Suite.

Problem Solving Ability:

• Works effectively within established systems and processes and compares data against known models or systems.
• Processes information of varying complexity and uses data and patterns to make predictions and improve work methods.
• Solves problems where trial and error may not be sufficient and tests alternative approaches before recommending a solution.

Social Process Skills:

Self-awareness:

• Understands the impact of personal behaviour, adapts to the situation, seeks feedback and puts overall business needs first.

Team process:

• Adjusts effectively between team-member and team-leader responsibilities, resolves conflict and fosters an inclusive environment for collaboration, feedback and coaching.

Collaboration:

• Builds and sustains stakeholder relationships by listening, asking questions, influencing and negotiating to achieve productive outcomes.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Safety conscious and willing to stop unsafe work.
• Collaborative, inclusive and accountable.
• Analytical, strategic and focused on continuous improvement.

Your Work Environment:

• The location for this position is Accra.
• The role collaborates with complex sites or multiple sites and works closely with Site Technical Services, Senior Leadership Team functions and the Long Term Planning Team.