Senior Geotechnical Engineer

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Detail information about job Senior Geotechnical Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy

• 8/6 FIFO from Perth or DIDO from Kalgoorlie
• Permanent role with a growing gold company
• Long mine life in an underground gold operation

Saracen Mineral Holdings (ASX:SAR) is an ASX listed gold producer with its core assets located in world class gold provinces in Western Australia. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Geotechnical Engineer for our Carosue Dam Operations situated 120kms north east of Kalgoorlie, WA. For the successful candidate Saracen provides a safe and positive working environment with excellent camp amenities, a great company culture, a family friendly roster (8/6) and a competitive salary package.

Carosue Dam is an underground mining operation, with two underground mines in production and a third in early development.  Carosue Dam is at an exciting stage of its underground mine development with ongoing drilling and technical studies underpinning a long life, low cost operation employing bulk mining methods with engineered backfill.   

This role represents a rare opportunity to provide front end technical input into a large, long life underground operation.

Reporting to the Geotechnical Superintendent, you will be responsible for:

• Providing geotechnical advice to mining operations to ensure geotechnical risks are effectively identified, managed and controlled.
• Providing geotechnical input into short and long term production planning and scheduling processes.  
• Geotechnical assessments of the LOM design, development designs and level extraction plans.
• Building and maintaining geotechnical systems of work, procedures and management plans to establish the geotechnical team.
• Data analysis, geotechnical design and continuous improvement activities.
• Undertaking geotechnical project tasks required for business improvement and cost control.
• Providing back to back operational coverage and underground assessments when required.

You will be expected to manage the geotechnical aspects of the operation in the short to mid-term timeframe as well as identify and implement technical improvements. It will be expected that you will be able to build systems of work to establish efficient work processes and procedures to support the geotechnical team.

To be successful in this role you will require the following skills and experience:

• A tertiary qualification in Geotechnical Engineering/ Rock Mechanics, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering or Structural Geology.
• Approximately 5 years of geotechnical engineering experience including a minimum of 3 years in an underground operation.
• Demonstrated track record of involvement and achievement in successful projects, working both independently and collaboratively.
• Strong understanding of statutory requirements and geotechnical considerations for underground and open pit mining.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proficient in mining and geotechnical software such as Deswik, RocScience, IMS and numerical modelling software.
• Backfill and open pit experience will be well regarded.

'Saracen is committed to achieving a diverse workforce, and we strongly encourage Female, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants and applicants who reside in our local communities to apply'.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately.

All applicants must have the right to work in Australia.