Position Description

Why consider a career at MLC?

• Highly collaborative work environment focused on growth and innovation.
• Safety and sustainability are top priorities.
• Excellent compensation, benefits, generous perks; focused on employee wellbeing.
• Great development and advancement opportunities
• Bring your real self to work, come grow with us!

Overview

The Mine Engineer:

• Provides technical expertise, support, training, and leadership to the underground mine.
• Uses problem-solving skills and engineering judgement to improve MLC's mining operations.
• Identifies projects the Mine Engineer then develops into processes to improve operations.
• Although the mine has no formal external customers, Mine Engineers ensure that their internal customers' needs are satisfied.

Requirements

• Education:
  
  • BS in Mining Engineering, Geology, Geological Engineering, or closely related field is required.
• Experience:
  
  • Open to candidates from recent graduate to multi-role professional
  • Salary and performance expectations commensurate with experience
• Skills:
  
  • Self-starting individual comfortable with:
  • Personally developing timelines and completing self-directed work to reach company goals
  • Answering open-ended questions
  • Decision-making with incomplete information.
  • Data-driven operations, including collection, analysis, discussion, and presentation
  • Communicating across all levels of the organization
  • Uses data (finds/collects/analyzes/evaluates) to develop and optimize processes
  • Develops project goals and works backward to find resources, tools, and path to implementation
  • Turns projects into processes that can be delegated to other groups for successful continuation.
  • Does NOT continue to complete daily work that should be delegated.
  • Utilizes project management skills/practices and other tools to optimize project execution.
  • Focuses on adding value to the organization and prioritizes work accordingly.
• Abilities:
  
  • Provides recommendations as requested/needed based on available data and experience
  • Makes engineering generalizations from one process/problem to another with minimal supervision.
  • Independently supports related areas of responsibility with minimal supervision.
  • Effectively communicates with all functional groups and through several levels of the organization.
  • Microsoft Office and CAD design proficiency commensurate with experience
  • Has interest in and commitment to teamwork and team-based systems.

Essential Functions

• Mine Plan
  
  • Utilize DDH data and modeling software to build and maintain an appropriate deposit model
  • Update Five-Year Mine Plan annually, working with others to develop and implement Long-, Mid- and Short-Range goals.
  • Perform Five-Year Mine Plan reviews annually and as needed
• Ground Control
  
  • Review, prepare and present Ground Control information meetings quarterly and as needed
  • Manage site extensometer data, borescoping programs, and other Ground Control related data and programs
• General Operations Support
  
  • Lead the Quality Pillar in both Drill Blast Scale and Kiln Feed departments
  • Technical troubleshooting as needed/requested
  • Assist with regulatory standard compliance both personally and for the broader organization
  • Conduct proactive process monitoring / analysis / adjustment
  • Minimize process variability via Six Sigma Operational Excellence projects as appropriate
  • Train manufacturing personnel to improve processes
  • Maintain documentation to support technical and regulatory systems
  • Lead and implement small technical projects
• Capital Project Support
  
  • New equipment installation/commissioning/troubleshooting as requested/needed
  • Equipment replacement
  • PHA/PSSE Projects
  • Meet and exceed customer expectations
• Providing Direction
  
  • Participates in prioritization of work based upon occupational and process safety, production, rate of return and regulatory requirements.
  • Designs, develops and implements data collection and analysis systems which accurately reflect the performance of the process
  • Develops functional standards, systems and procedures.
  • Utilizes information systems to capture and facilitate use of organizational memory
  • Provides information to leaders for budgeting material and variable usages and capital expenditures.
• People Development
  
  • Builds technical troubleshooting skills in manufacturing personnel.
  • Assists in management of external resources
  • Develops capability within operators by providing technical expertise and training for operations
  • Identifies and works with Operations to address gaps in manufacturing personnel capabilities
  • Implements systems to train/transfer support of plant requirements to operators and supervisors to improve operating discipline to begin and maintain cost savings/improvement projects.
  • Creates processes to transfer work required for the daily support of plant requirements to operators and supervisors when appropriate.
• Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability
  
  • Adheres to site safety, environment and health policies and standards
  • Abides by site standards, policies and principles
  • Audits policies and standards as requested/completed
  • Supports/completes site wide safety audits.
  • Ensures personal compliance with all plant standards, policies, and principles
  • Ensures product and process compliance with all MSHA requirements.
  • Works to maintain sustainable operations
• Collaborating and Networking
  
  • Effectively communicates and directs manufacturing personnel to improve current and future performance of process. This includes constant, ongoing communication with:
  • Mine Operations leadership and supervision
    
    • Surface customers and supervisors
    • Engineering Manager
    • Laboratory
    • Environmental Department
    • Hourly Workforce
    • Constantly assesses whether there is a better way for manufacturing personnel to perform their tasks, and develops processes to improve when opportunities arise.
• Metrics/Results
  
  • Monitors budgeting of raw material usages and tracks process performance
  • Develops KPIs as needed to maintain focus on areas of interest
  • Tracks and Evaluates Specific Energy Consumption of Operations
  • Assists with budgeting of capital projects within product group

Employees are expected to perform other responsibilities as needed.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct reports: No

Subordinate supervisors: No