Grange Resources Tasmania is on the lookout for a Senior Drill and Blast Engineer to join our operation in Savage River.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
•Leadership position: This position offers an opportunity to progress your career and move into a leadership role.
•Scenic Location: Work on the stunning northwest coast of Tasmania, surrounded by natural beauty.
•Challenging Projects: Tackle significant technical complexities and unique engineering challenges.
•Innovative Technology: Work with and develop our cutting-edge remote drilling and explosive loading technology.
Roster: 5 days on 2 days off, 4 days on 3 days off
Day to day
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Grow and lead the Drill & Blast (D&B) team (engineers and blast crew), providing industry best practice D&B consulting services for operational and growth projects, including potential underground projects.
- Mentor mine planning staff and ensure succession planning.
- Standardise site D&B processes to achieve efficiencies within agreed timeframes, providing technical consulting and peer review to business planning and project teams.
- Utilise your experience and industry network to recruit talent and connect with industry experts to facilitate upskilling of team members.
Who you are
To be successful in this role you have:
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience in the key responsibility areas outlined above
- Experience in an open cut mining environment
- A self-motivated person who enjoys leading and working with an agile and focussed team.
- Experience with Electronic detonators, Pre-splitting, Trim and Wall control, blast design software and Surpac, would be well-regarded
- Excellent verbal and written communication to establish and maintain effective communication channels.
- You will be a strong team player with the ability to work in a diverse team to achieve planned outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders
Who we are
We're Grange Resources, Australia's oldest and most experienced magnetite producer - combining both mining and pellet production expertise. Based in northwest Tasmania, we own and operate Australia's largest integrated iron ore mining and pellet production business.
Grange holds long term supply contracts for one million tonnes of its annual production and offers the balance of its production to market via a spot sales tendering/contracting process.
Savage River
The Savage River magnetite iron ore mine is a long-life mining asset where ore is mined and processed before it is transported by pipeline to Grange's pellet plant and ship loading facility at Port Latta.
The Savage River worksite is only an hour and half drive away from the vibrant coastal towns of north-west Tasmania, which offers a fantastic regional lifestyle and is only an hour’s flight from Melbourne with regular services from airports at Burnie, Devonport and Launceston.
Diversity
At Grange Resources Tasmania, we don't just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our productivity, and our community. Grange Resources Tasmania is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, genetic information, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity or expression. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.