Superintendent Mine Planning📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Superintendent, Mine Planning to join its team on a full-time basis. This role is central to developing and maintaining comprehensive mine plans that align with production and business objectives. The Superintendent will coordinate closely with various departments to ensure efficient and effective mining operations.

Role Purpose and Context

The Superintendent, Mine Planning is responsible for developing and maintaining short-term, medium-term, and life-of-mine plans. This involves critical coordination with Geology, Mining Operations, Processing, and Technical Services to achieve established production and business targets. The role focuses on optimizing resource utilization, ensuring safety, enhancing efficiency, and improving cost-effectiveness across all planning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain short-, medium-, and long-term mine plans in collaboration with relevant technical and operational functions.
• Produce and review mine designs, production schedules, extraction sequences, and development plans to optimize resource utilization, safety, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• Coordinate with Geology to integrate resource models, reserve updates, and grade control information into plans and production forecasts.
• Monitor actual mining performance against approved plans, analyze variances, identify constraints and risks, and recommend corrective actions.
• Conduct mine optimization studies and evaluate mining methods, equipment requirements, and operational strategies to maximize resource recovery and minimize operating costs.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities within mine planning processes, systems, and technologies.
• Prepare annual operating plans, production forecasts, manpower requirements, budgets, and capital expenditure proposals for mine planning and development.
• Maintain the accuracy, integrity, and availability of mine planning data, survey information, and technical reports.
• Lead technical studies, feasibility assessments, mine expansion plans, and resource utilization reports.
• Review and approve planning deliverables, technical reports, designs, and schedules against company standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Supervise Mine Planning personnel, provide technical guidance and coaching, and deploy department resources effectively.
• Implement HSE requirements in planning activities and participate in risk assessments and incident investigations.

Required Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in mine planning or a closely related field. This experience should demonstrate a strong understanding of mine planning principles, methodologies, and operational coordination.

Key Performance Outcomes

Success in this role will be measured by the following key outcomes:

• Alignment of short-, medium-, and life-of-mine plans with approved production and business objectives.
• Accuracy, availability, and compliance of mine designs, schedules, forecasts, and technical reports with company and regulatory requirements.
• Timely identification and resolution of planning variances, constraints, and risks through effective corrective recommendations.
• Continuous improvement in resource recovery, operating efficiency, and cost effectiveness through mine planning activities, while consistently meeting HSE requirements.

Application Information

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this full-time position. Further details regarding the application process will be provided upon interest.