Project Manager - Mine Planning
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
Position: Project Manager-Mine Planning
Location: Morocco based
Roster: Mon to Fri
The Project Manager - Mine Planning will lead the development and execution of innovative mine planning strategies aimed at advancing the company’s decarbonisation objectives.
This role is critical in driving the integration of sustainable mining practices, focusing on reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency, and optimising the environmental footprint of the mining operations.
The Project Manager will manage cross-disciplinary teams to design, implement, and monitor effective mine planning solutions that align with our sustainability vision, ensuring that projects are delivered efficiently, on budget, and in compliance with environmental regulations.
The role is full-time position based in Morocco with an initial contract duration of 18-months.
Key Responsibilities
• The Project Manager – Mine Planning is accountable to manage the Mine Planning team in delivering planning support to the OCP Group.
• Managing a technical team responsible for drill and blast engineering, production engineering, mine quality and mine surveying functions.
• Assisting OCP Mine planning team in transition to new systems and processes.
• Management of production engineering functions including daily and weekly mine schedules, traffic management, designs, and provision and use of data for fleet system.
• Management of mine planning functions including medium to long-term mine schedules.
• Management of drill and blast engineering function including drill and blast design, blast tie-in design, explosives forecasting.
• Management of mine surveying function including end of month volume reporting, aerial flyover, data transfer to/from fleet systems.
• Providing assistance to mine production to implement productivity improvement projects
Key Relationships
Internal: · Decarbonisation – Head of Decarb Advisory Morocco · Operations Readiness · Mining Efficiency · Maintenance Efficiency · Mine Planning Team · Decarb Advisory Team
External: · OCP Mine Planning team · OCP Processing team · Consultants
Qualifications and Experience
• 15+ years postgraduate in open cut mining and related operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering, Civil or similar with relevant experience
• Mine planning and operational experience.
• Experience working with project teams in Energy Transition or renewables business cases (including energy systems) is highly beneficial.
• Experience on agile based projects / working knowledge of Agile practices would be beneficial.
• Consulting or advisory experience would be beneficial
• Mine Planning experience (short, medium and long term)
• Technical Services leadership
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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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.