GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER - DEBSWANA DIAMOND COMPANY

Debswana Diamond Company – Debswana Jwaneng Mine would like to invite suitably qualifi ed innovative, results oriented and self-driven individuals to apply for the position listed and described below and join a professional team driven by service excellence, where the demands of the business are met by encouraging team work and addressing the needs of the individual.

Geotechnical Engineer
REF: JWNG000154

Job Summary
To provide an effective Geotechnical Engineering service to meet the operation’s production objectives.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• BSc relevant degree plus Post Graduate Qualification in either rock mechanics or geotechnical engineering
• 4 years post qualification experience, 2 years of which should be in a mining/mineral resources management
• environment.
• Supervisory development training
• Numerical Modelling
• Relevant technical training

Key Activities

• Recommends and incorporates cost saving initiatives into budgets and controls expenditure within approved parameters.
• Implements and ensures adherence to set geotechnical standards, quality control and assurance systems for alignment of information management systems and technical processes to geotechnical code of practice.
• Conducts pit audits to determine compliance to slope angles designs and recommends corrective action of deviation to production and planning personnel.
• Develops, evaluates and prioritises geotechnical data acquisition schedule to optimise data acquisition for input into geotechnical models and slope designs.
• Analyses and interprets geotechnical mapping, slope monitoring data and strength data and determines design parameters for slope angle design.
• Analyses final wall blast evaluation data for slope stability monitoring purposes and blasting improvements initiatives.
• Carries out integrated geotechnical models for slope angle design, slope stability analysis and mine planning, and updates models as and when required.
• Plans and implements systematic Geotechnical Systems to ensure continuous and effective monitoring of the pit slopes.
• Investigates and analyses slope failure incidents and recommends and ensures implementation of safety and production mitigation plans based on slope monitoring analysis results.
• Carries out back analysis from failure reports to determine slope angle design parameters and validates existing models.
• Manages and ensures implementation of slope angle design programmes.
• Ensures implementation of slope angle design recommendations and monitors recommended slope angle performance.
• Evaluates and carries out sensitivity slope stability analysis or slope angle optimisation based on hydrogeological and geotechnical parameters.
• Evaluates pit risk assessments and develops slope failure hazard plan for each pit considering geotechnical conditions.
• Plans and conducts slope failure evaluation simulations and ensures implementation of corrective actions arising from the slope failure evacuation report.
• Collates and validates geotechnical data into databases, updates geotechnical design sections and plans.
• Continually identifies opportunities for improvement in data acquisition, processing and storage by benchmarking and improving on solutions identified.
• Identifies, coordinates and manages the implementation of and adherence to legal and corporate governance principles/requirements in area of responsibility.
• Initiates, monitors and controls short term sectional projects to ensure attainment of desired results.
• Implements safety, health and environmental programme in area of responsibility.
• Implements the departmental talent management initiatives by ensuring the competence and effectiveness of manpower (capacity building) through developing and implementing career, localisation/succession, training and development plans.
• Implements knowledge management principles through application of tools and methodologies to continuously improve and sustain business performance.
• Identifies and implements creative and innovative ideas to continuously improve and sustain business performance.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with all key stakeholders and partners to ensure achievement of business objectives.

Personal Attributes

• Business Acumen
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Team work and collaboration
• Change Initiative
• Tenacity and Impact
• Concern for safety, health and environment

Closing date and application instructions

Only candidates who meet the above requirements need apply enclosing a current curriculum vitae and certified copies of certificates:

Email: recruitmentJWN@debswana.bw Please reference JWNG000154 in the subject line on both the email and application letter

Closing date: 19 December 2015

NB: Only short listed candidates will be responded to.