Specialist Mining Engineer - Short-Term Planning | Mt Arthur Coal | Muswellbrook

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About the Role

Here at Mt Arthur Coal, we are looking for a short-term design engineer to join our Technical Services team to help develop safe and efficient designs to support the operational teams.

This opportunity is open to candidates with all levels of experience and offers fantastic career development.

Some of your responsibilities will include, however are not limited to:

• Develop safe, efficient excavation and dump designs;
• Optimise mine plans by providing options to maximise value through mine design;
• Effectively communicate planning outputs to internal and external stakeholders;
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders to deliver key design objectives.

Our team has an exceptional culture where success across the group is celebrated and work/life balance is appreciated. This role is based in Muswellbrook where you can enjoy the residential lifestyle on a Monday-Friday basis with flexibility.

Our leaders are committed to the development of individuals to assist them achieving their career goals. We have provided development opportunities for our people to move throughout the technical services team and into frontline production roles where they have demonstrated professionalism and extended their technical capability.

As the successful candidate, you will have a tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or similar and relevant experience in an open cut mining operation.

You will be required to liaise, negotiate and influence a range of internal and external stakeholders, so effective collaboration, stakeholder engagement and communication skills are critical.

You will demonstrate a strong commitment to safety and value the importance of building team culture through regular collaboration with team members and key stakeholders.

A strong working knowledge of the following software packages is required:

• Vulcan and/or Deswik
• SPRY
• Microsoft Office Suite

Please apply before 5th February 2024

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