Senior Medium Term Planning Engineer - UG - FIFO to PNG

About New Porgera

New Porgera Limited (NPL) is a company incorporated in Papua New Guinea and owns the Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province. The Porgera Gold Mine will employ nearly 3,000 Papua New Guineans at full production, and over the last 30 years of life of the mine it has contributed approximately 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total annual exports.

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Medium Term Planning Engineer to join our Mine Engineering Services Team – Underground. Reporting to the Superintendent – Mine Engineering Services - Underground, you’ll play a key role in shaping the long-term success of the Porgera operation by delivering practical and strategic mine plans that optimise the life of mine.

You will have the opportunity to mentor and support junior engineers, sharing your knowledge and experience to help develop a strong, collaborative, and high-performing technical team whilst modelling safety behaviors' and managing risk. The position requires a high energy individual, hands-on management style and desire to continuously improve you and your team’s knowledge and systems and methods of work.

NPL operates in a complex environment that requires the successful applicant to be a self-starter, with strong ability in delivery to support the mines successful operation whilst coordinating the efforts of your team members to complete projects according to plan in a timely and safe manner.

About you

• You will bring a minimum of five years’ experience in both bulk and narrow vein hard rock mining, including previous experience in drill and blast and production engineering roles. Membership with AusIMM (or an equivalent professional body) is highly regarded, along with advanced proficiency in Deswik and hands-on experience with stope optimisation programs.

• As a key contributor to the underground mining operations, you will be responsible for delivering medium term mine plans that optimise the life of the asset while enabling the business to meet both short and long term objectives in safety, production, and cost.

• You will produce practical development and production designs based on new and updated geological resource models, and logically sequence and schedule mine areas to enhance overall production and economic outcomes.

• Responsible for developing functional infrastructure designs to support the efficient execution of mining activities and schedules, review and implement mine design and planning standards, analyse operational data and performance metrics to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• A key aspect of this role involves mentoring and supporting NPL team members, contributing to their professional growth and the overall capability of the technical team. Along with strong report writing and presentation skills, your ability to effectively manage technical consultants, is essential.

Why New Porgera

In return, you will be joining a world-class mining operation with the opportunity to impact the development and upskilling of our predominantly local workforce, combined with a team keen to learn and absorb knowledge.  This offers a unique opportunity to further shape the department and improve NPL’s social performance and people knowledge. 

You will be joining an operation that leads a team towards best-in-class safety practices demonstrating a "One Team" approach whilst contributing to the development of a highly capable national workforce, making a lasting impact on the industry.

This role is offered on a FIFO basis either from Papua New Guinea or Australia/New Zealand with a 21/14 roster on a contract basis with a highly competitive remuneration package.

To understand more about this position, please contact ••••@npltd.com