Drill and Blast Engineer (Engineering)

Full Time

  Stellar Recruitment

  Far West & North Central NSW, New South Wales, Australia

Drill and Blast Engineer

  • Work With the Mine Owner
  • Diverse and challenging role
  • Residential Permanent Position

Our client is a large coal producer who are operating and exploring a number of assets across Australia. With a major focus on growth in NSW. Due to some recent changes in their technical services team they are looking to bring on an experienced Drill and Blast Engineer. The team is looking for someone with highly developed technical, software and interpersonal skills to be based on site to play a pivotal role to maximizing production and efficiency.

Reporting to the Regional Manager your duties will include:

  • Contribute to the design of blasting plans
  • Provide technical input into the planning and coordinating of blasting activities
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Liaise with blasting contractors to ensure targets are being met
  • Ensure blasting performance while minimizing cost
  • Review any poor performance

To be successful in this position you will have:

  • Tertiary qualification in Engineering
  • 3 years + in an Open cut mining environment as a Drill and Blast Engineer
  • Experience with Through-Seam blasting would be desirable
  • Mine software capability such as Vulcan
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills