Reporting through our Underground Development Manager, the Senior Mining Engineer focuses on long-term mine planning — life-of-mine, annual and quarterly plans, design and technical studies — and provides technical leadership across the team. The Mining Engineer focuses on ventilation design and monitoring and the delivery of engineering and capital projects. Both roles are hands-on, technical and central to how we get Sunday Creek into production.
What You'll Drive🔸 Contributing to mine design, scheduling and technical studies — from annual and quarterly plans through to life-of-mine plans and PFS/FS-level studies, depending on the role
🔸 Designing, monitoring and optimising the underground ventilation circuit to meet Victorian OHS Regulations 2017 (Part 5.3)
🔸 Supporting drill and blast design, execution and performance monitoring
🔸 Delivering engineering and capital projects, from scope through to commissioning
🔸 Liaising with geology, geotechnical, survey, environmental and operations teams to keep plans technically robust and operationally feasible
🔸 Supporting budgeting, cost forecasting and short-term scheduling and reconciliation against plan
🔸 Communicating plans, options and risk trade-offs clearly to site leadership and stakeholders
🔸 Conducting inspections, hazard identification and task observations to support safe production
🔸 For Senior Mining Engineer: providing technical direction and mentoring to the Mining Engineer and future junior/graduate engineers
Who You AreYou could be early in your ventilation and project delivery career, or you could be the person other engineers come to for the long-term plan — either way, you think several steps ahead, back your numbers, and can explain trade-offs clearly to people who aren't engineers. You're comfortable moving between the detail of a design and the big picture of the mine plan, and you take ownership of the details that keep people safe underground.
Your BackgroundSenior Mining Engineer✔ Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or a relevant engineering discipline
✔ Extensive experience in underground hard rock mining, ideally sub level stoping
✔ Proven long-term planning, life-of-mine scheduling and technical study experience
✔ High proficiency in Deswik or equivalent mine planning software
✔ Experience with ventilation and/or paste-fill design considerations (desirable)
✔ Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
✔ Effective planning, organisation and time management
✔ Experience mentoring or providing technical direction to junior/graduate engineers
Mining Engineer✔ Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering or a relevant engineering discipline
✔ Underground hard rock mining experience; ventilation design/monitoring experience highly regarded
✔ Proficiency with Deswik, and Ventsim/Pumpsim Design, or willingness to learn
✔ Sound understanding of drill and blast principles
✔ Exposure to project delivery or capital works (desirable)
✔ Strong organisational skills and ability to work independently in office and underground
📌 The Practical Details 📍 Location: Clonbinane, VIC
🗓 Roster: Monday – Friday, 5:2
📝 Contract: Permanent, Full-time
👤 Reports to: Underground Development Manager
📅 Start date: ASAP
Required checks:- Field-based medical
- Right to work & qualifications verification
- National police check
- Manual driver’s license
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