Engineering Lead

Barrick is looking for a Mine Engineering Lead to join the Technical Services team. In this role, you will provide strategic and long term mine planning support to Barrick’s LATAM-AP operating mine sites, development projects, and growth opportunities. Technical focus of value-add strategic planning is combined with bringing industry leading experience to help continued professional development of site-based teams. Frequent travel (30-50%) required.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to site mine engineering teams to deliver high quality life-of-mine plans, forecast, and budgets.
• Provide mine engineering support for regional project studies, merger and acquisition evaluations, and due diligence.
• Champion culture of continuous improvement and innovation, optimization, and debottlenecking, with focuses on increased productivity, reduced operating cost, and improved safety.
• Undertake strategic pit and mine schedule optimization studies.
• Develop practical long-term mine designs and production schedules.
• Develop operating and capital cost estimates to support financial modelling of mine plans.
• Work with site and regional finance teams to complete economic evaluations of projects and alternative scenario plans.
• Highlight opportunities and risks in the mine plans to help drive corporate strategy.
• Mentoring and guidance of site-based mine engineering teams.
• Identification, engagement, and management of consultants where required for mine engineering studies.
• Review, improve, and synergize long-term mine planning processes, workflows, and systems.
• Assist and guide the reporting of annual Reserves and Resources to required standards.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners across regions to promote best practices.
• Actively contribute to the region’s ‘Journey to Zero’.
• Role model high standards of professional behaviour and ethics, in accordance with our DNA.
• Be accountable for ensuring succession planning activities are proactively managed, with development plans in place for individuals to assume critical positions within the team.
• Undertake and deliver projects and ad hoc work / assignments as required by the business.

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