Specialist Engineer, Mining, Short-Term Planning

About the role

Newmont's Accra Hub, its corporate office in Ghana supporting the Ahafo South and Ahafo North mines, is hiring a Specialist Engineer, Mining, Short-Term Planning. The role develops and manages detailed underground mine plans from the medium term down to daily execution, aligns them with the Business Plan, quarterly forecast and 5-Year Plan, and leads a team of other engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and oversee integrated underground mine plans from the medium-term horizon through daily execution, aligned with production, development and financial commitments and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the development, review and issue of rolling medium-term, monthly, weekly and daily schedules, and ensure underground development, production stopes, backfill, ventilation, egress, mine services and infrastructure are physically sequenced.
• Maintain planning inputs, assumptions and controls such as approved models, geotechnical criteria, productivity rates, equipment and workforce assumptions, costs and schedule basis.
• Coordinate cross-functional planning reviews and secure technical reviews, operational acceptance and approvals; direct schedule optimization, resource levelling and constraint management.
• Oversee performance-to-plan, spatial and plan-on-plan reconciliation, and lead planning risk management, change control, recovery planning and production reforecasting.
• Facilitate planning and commitment reviews, communicate approved priorities and trade-offs, and coach and develop planning capability.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering; a closely related engineering degree is accepted only with proven underground mine-design and planning competence.
• Ghana Minerals Commission competency certification where required by the statutory duties of the position.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant mining-engineering experience, including substantial recent underground mine-planning experience; at least 5 years of direct underground mine-planning experience is preferred.
• Experience in underground design and scheduling, performance analysis and reconciliation, cost/physical integration, risk and change control, and technical assurance.

Required skills

• Advanced knowledge of underground mining methods, short- and medium-term design and scheduling, and performance-to-plan reconciliation.
• Competent knowledge of drill-and-blast, cost and physical modelling, operational optimization, risk management and change control, and mine-planning governance.
• Preferred: professional registration or eligibility with a recognized engineering body, and knowledge of resource-to-reserve processes and Qualified/Competent Person requirements.