Perth CBD, WA
12-Month Initial Contract | High Likelihood of Extension | Immediate Start Available
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Mine Planning Engineer to join a major resources organisation supporting the integration of mine planning and infrastructure requirements across large-scale open pit mining operations.
This position plays a critical role in connecting operational and medium-term planning outcomes with infrastructure development requirements, ensuring mining activities remain aligned with future energy and infrastructure strategies.
Working within a highly collaborative technical team, you will partner closely with mine planning, operations, technical services, and infrastructure stakeholders to support planning integration across a dynamic mining portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary interface between mine planning and infrastructure teams
- Participate in planning meetings and collaborate closely with 2-Year Planning and Operations Planning teams
- Translate approved mine plans into near-term infrastructure and energisation requirements
- Monitor and assess changes to approved mine plans and identify impacts to infrastructure schedules
- Maintain integrated pit and infrastructure planning registers
- Model mobile equipment charging requirements, including charger numbers, locations, and deployment timing
- Assess infrastructure constraints and integrate these into mine sequencing activities
- Identify and resolve conflicts between mining schedules, fleet deployment, and infrastructure readiness
- Support quarterly planning cycles and change management activities
- Evaluate cost, schedule, and delivery impacts arising from planning changes
- Support trade-off studies and planning optimisation initiatives
- Ensure planning datasets are maintained and published accurately to enterprise planning systems
- Contribute to the standardisation and continuous improvement of planning processes
You are a motivated and proactive Mining Engineer who enjoys working across multiple stakeholder groups and thrives in a fast-paced environment. You're a go-getter who takes ownership, challenges the status quo, and actively looks for opportunities to improve planning outcomes and drive value.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Mining Engineering or a related discipline
- Minimum 2 years' experience in open pit mining operations and mine planning
- Experience in short- to medium-term mine planning environments
- Strong understanding of mine sequencing and production planning
- Mine design experience
- Experience using mine planning software such as:
- Deswik
- Alastri
- Vulcan
- or similar planning packages
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to work effectively across technical and operational teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Pilbara mining experience
- Iron ore experience
- Exposure to fleet electrification, energy transition, or infrastructure planning initiatives
- Experience within large mining operations or mining consultancies
- Immediate start available
- Initial 12-month contract
- High likelihood of extension
- Perth CBD location
- Roster: 5:2 | 9-hour days
- Opportunity to work on innovative mining, infrastructure, and future fleet initiatives
- Collaborative and high-performing technical environment
- Exposure to major planning, infrastructure integration, and decarbonisation projects
If you're an experienced Mine Planning Engineer looking to contribute to large-scale mining and infrastructure initiatives while working on projects shaping the future of mining, we'd love to hear from you.
At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.
You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.
