Senior Mine Planning Engineer - Jundee Operations

About the role

Northern Star Resources is looking for a Senior Mine Planning Engineer to join its Jundee Operations team. Reporting to the Underground Manager, you will lead a team of planning engineers, build their capability and deliver monthly, three-monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts. The position runs on an 8 days on, 6 days off roster, FIFO from Perth.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team of Mine Planning Engineers, providing leadership, mentorship, training and development.
• Deliver monthly, three-monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts and quarterly reforecasts.
• Undertake all planning activities, including medium- and long-term planning.
• Produce spatial compliance reports (actual vs budget), prepare annual budgets and life-of-asset plans.
• Undertake underground mine design, level extraction plan preparation and economic evaluation.
• Prepare ore reserves in line with JORC Code definitions.
• Liaise with Production, Paste Fill, Geotechnical and Geology workgroups to turn medium- and long-term priorities into short-term plans.
• Identify and implement opportunities to optimise mining processes and drive business improvement.

Required profile

• Demonstrated underground mining planning experience in a hard rock environment.
• Experience in short, medium and long-term planning and forecasting.
• Tertiary qualification in Mining Engineering; WA First Class Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency is desirable.
• Current "C" class Western Australian driver's licence.
• Ability to communicate well and work collaboratively across operations, contractors and project teams.

Required skills

• Deswik packages (Scheduler, CAD, SO)
• Financial modelling and cost estimation

What we offer

• Fortnightly pay, quarterly STI and top-tier health insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Bonus program with quarterly and annual incentives, employee share plans and salary packaging options.
• Parental leave, wellbeing support and 5 weeks annual leave for site-based employees.
• 5 weeks annual leave for site-based employees.