Principal Mining Consultant

Mining Plus is **expanding**

Mining Plus is looking for Principal Mining Consultants with up to 10+ years of open-pit mining experience. Full-time and flexible opportunities are available at either of our Australian Mining Plus offices, located in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane.

**Join Us**

At Mining Plus, are seeking highly skilled and experienced Principal Consultants to join our **Surface** Mining team.

The culture of our team is second to none

Our surface division currently has a diverse range of skillsets and commodity expertise, making Mining Plus one of the best places to work.

Mining Plus is a leading mining consultancy, providing due diligence, corporate advisory, ESG, decarbonisation, mining studies, geological and engineering support to a wide range of clients across the world.

Our flexible working options suit your lifestyle, whether you're seeking full-time, casual, or part-time work.

**The Role**

We will need a suitably qualified professional, with extensive industry experience, who will assist in growing our business and our people into the future.

As a recognized expert in your field who has built a reputation for excellence, you will feel equally comfortable working with clients, partners, and mentoring junior team members in our team.

**Core Functions**:

- Provide ongoing technical oversight and engagement in mining studies (Scoping, Pre-feasibility & Feasibility)
- Conduct mine asset due diligence and evaluations
- Conduct mine planning, optimization projects, and mine economic modelling
- Lead Mine Design and planning activities, including management of partner groups and sub-contractors
- Write and review technical engineering Reports (JORC, NI 43-101 or equivalent)
- Lead the mining engineering team projects requiring technical solutions within our ‘Define-Plan-Operate’ pillars
- Oversight of technical quality, and delivery of projects including design, review, and project management according to client-approved scopes of work
- Be a champion for practical mining solutions for projects and operations, leveraging our existing foundation of global best practices (fit for project)
- Actively leverage and advocate for industry-leading technology and support implementation engagements (collaboration with our partner groups)
- Lead and manage multi-disciplinary project teams, working with professionals to deliver high-quality projects on time and within budget
- Actively mentor and develop team members, in the interests of their long-term career objectives and operational needs

**Key Requirements**:

- 10 +years’ experience within the industry across a broad range of roles/sites
- You have a Mining Engineering bachelor’s degree
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and are legally entitled
to live and work in Australia
- You are competent in some or all of Mining Software, such as Geovia, Datamine
and/or Deswik mining software packages
- You have Fellow/ Chartered Professional of professional Affiliations and are
authorised to sign off in accordance with JORC/NI 43-101/SAMREC etc for multiple
commodities/styles
- You can conceive and complete work independently
- Excellent workplace safety practices (advocate for global best practices)
- Ability to train and mentor other employees and the Technical Team
- You have high impact business influence with the desire to lead business development activities
- You can effectively peer review and manage work at an expert level
- You have an effective client management style and can lead client interactions
within projects
- You have great time management and can demonstrate strategic thinking
- Project management of large global projects/ teams
- Ability to generate chargeable work

If you believe you have most of the skills and experience outlined above, we would love to hear from you

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