Leader of technical products and services offering for the Western USA precious metals, base metals, and industrial mineral mining markets, both surface and underground. Responsible for identification, vetting, development, and implementation of products, technologies, services, and techniques.
Locations (2)
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Canada
Responsibilities
Help maintain a safe and healthy work environment by living our safety culture, empowering our team members, and assuring compliance with regulations and our policies and procedures.
Ensure Austin Powder can provide the products and technical services needed to meet customer needs and support our sales and growth targets in the underground market.
Provide technical support to employees and customers to include blast design, product selection, surveying, post-blast analysis, blast optimization, mine planning, and other service needs.
Identify the product and technical service requirements needed to support existing customers as well as grow our current underground market share.
Identify and develop both surface and underground technical service representatives through joint efforts with corporate and LLC management teams.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree preferably in Mining Engineering
Lead and supervise drilling and blasting operations at a mine site in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
Plan, coordinate, and supervise all drilling and blasting activities to support the mine production schedule.
Ensure drilling patterns and blast designs are executed according to mine design, geotechnical requirements, and regulatory standards.
Optimize drilling and blasting operations to achieve targeted fragmentation, slope stability, and production efficiency.
Oversee loading of explosives, stemming, tie-up, and firing of blasts in compliance with company and legal standards.
Manage drilling and blasting crews, equipment allocation, and consumables.