Senior Production Engineer – Sandfire Motheo

Job Description

This position is responsible for providing leadership in production engineering support to mining execution.

Key Responsibilities:
– Allocate production engineering support and maintain coverage across mining operations.
– Lead contractor drill and blast QAQC audits and track actions from design to post-blast review.
– Review blast designs for compliance with approved parameters and route approval to authorised personnel.
– Analyse fragmentation, dilution, ore loss, dig rates and downstream impacts with relevant teams.
– Lead production quantity reconciliation and technical verification of contractor submissions.
– Monitor plan execution and coordinate engineering responses to operational constraints.
– Set standards for engineering field inspections, as-built checks and design compliance.
– Lead assigned mining infrastructure projects with scope, risk, cost and schedule controls.
– Verify GET and foreign material risk controls are embedded in dig plans and handovers.
– Coordinate production improvement trials with the optimisation and operations teams.
– Coach Production Engineers and graduates; review their work before release.
– Maintain technical records and escalate material safety, production and cost deviations.

Requirements:
– Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent recognised qualification.
– ERB registration appropriate to the role.
– Valid Class B driver’s licence.
– Hold the relevant Botswana blasting licence where duties require it; technical review alone does not confer firing or approval authority.
– At least 8 years in open pit mining engineering, including 3 years in production engineering leadership and drill and blast performance management.