Job Title: Drill & Blast Engineer
Location: Oyo
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Duties
- Develop, implement and review best practices for drilling and blasting activities with a focus on blast optimization, ensuring that all activities are carried out in strict conformance with company policies.
- Supervise large scale drill & blast drilling operations while maintaining an effective team, to achieve optimum operational performance ensuring project viability.
- Control and manage the operating budget, monitor daily performance and report on monthly progress to senior management.
- Manage all drilling and blasting activities including explosives magazine, consumables and stock control, and oversee blast optimization with a specific focus on fragmentation improvement.
- Produce drill and blast proposals and designs for operational and practical implementation based on the Long Term Mine Planning Engineer’s concept designs, and according to short-term scheduling requirements.
- Liaise with the Mine Planning Engineer to ensure the short-term plan meets the requirements of the budget and forecasts.
- Manage a safe and healthy work environment where workers and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment and keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance to statutory requirements is met.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent.
- Operational experience as a Blasting/Drilling Specialist within a Mining operations environment.
- 4-6 years’ experience in Production, Blasting Operations, mine planning & pit layout.
- Knowledge of blast vibration management is desirable.
- Drilling and blasting related software understanding.
Application Closing Date
17th March, 2024.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: miningexploration76@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.