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Analyst - Mine Planning, Morocco

Country/Region:  MA
State:  MMD
City:  Marrakesh
Job ID:  10121

About Us

 

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

 

Work Location: Marrakesh, Morocco

 

Roster: Monday to Friday 

 

Duration: 18-Months 

 

Hiring Method: Internal Employee or Moroccan National hire 


 

Reporting within Decarb Solutions to Manager Green Equipment, Fortescue Morocco is seeking a Mine Planning - Analyst who will work in close collaboration with Project Managers across Fortescue Decarb and Fortescue Energy/Fortescue Zero to provide insight, analysis and optimization recommendations that contribute to delivering Mine Planning Capabilities in line with Fortescue standards for Benguerir - with the initial 18 month focus on project in Morocco.  

Key Responsibilities

 

 

  • The Mine Planning Analyst role will provide technical expertise to build out ore body knowledge and value capture. This will involve: 
    • Ensuring OCP suite of software solutions (Datamine and Deswik based) are deployed with complementary approaches and rigor to Fortescue. 
    • Help deploy 3D mining geology model and resources optimization techniques (including approach for scaling across mines). 
    • Ensuring core process disciplines are in place with the new Mine Planning team including Resource Definition, Resource Modelling, Resource Planning, Geotechnical optimization, Hydrology and Metallurgy
    • Helping build skills within OCP mine planning team working on Benguerir Mine to Fortescue standards and planning disciplines
  • This role will provide technical expertise on Long Term planning horizons and integrated planning.
  • Help to create Integrated Demand planning capability, with pull process back from end customer into Medium Term Mine Plans
  • Help Build out reconciliation processes between geological models and actual movement with KPIs around compliance to plan, grade v block out predictions, regression updates
  • Operationally cascade 5-year, Annual, Monthly, Weekly, Daily process
  • Compliance monitoring of Exploratory Mine's operational capacity, with spatial compliance for Annual plan being completed monthly
  • Development of “energy led” planning processes
  • This role will also provide technical expertise to deliver long terms plans via medium-short term planning by:
    • Active interfaces for integration with operations and scheduling
    • Survey and Drill and Blast team including full site compliance control
    • TMP design standards and compliance
    • Ensuring Drill and blast engineers use CAD for blast designs to manage blast vibration and airwave limits
    • Develop capable Production Engineers embedded in each shift
    • Building skillsets and competence in use of Deswik Tools including feedback and guidance on the quality and rigour of OCPs planning
    • Ensure deployment of high-performance governance schedule, reports (both production and stockpiles, daily monitoring, risk controls).

 

Key Stakeholders to work with:

 

Internal:   

  • Decarbonisation – Head of Decarb Morocco
  • Managers of Green Energy, Green Equipment, and Green Mining all based in Morocco 
  • Superintendent Mine Planning, Morocco
  • Operations Planning and Integrated Planning within Fortescue 
  • Mine Planning within Fortescue

External:

  • Clients Mine Planning Team
  • Clients Processing Team 
  • Decarb and Mining Efficiency Project Consultants

Qualifications and Experience

 

  • Degree in relevant area (e.g. Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, Civil or similar experience)
  • Strong computer competence (excel, powerpoint, basic project tools and development applications) critical, and coding skills beneficial 
  • 5+ years postgraduate in open cut mining and related operations
  • Experience in summarizing and presenting insights in a compelling and comprehensive manner including power point storylines and action oriented recommendations 
  • Mine planning and operational experience required 
  • Consulting or advisory experience would be beneficial 
  • Operations experience
  • Mine Planning experience (short, medium and long term)
  • Mining Technical Services (open cut commodities)
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills 
  • Self-direction and ability to work in an agile project approach – able to act pragmatically on clear initial guidance 
  • Data validation and identification of information requirements/gaps 
  • Problem solving 
  • Build requirements from stakeholder engagement 

Our Commitment

 

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

 

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.

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