Debswana Diamond Company – Jwaneng Mine would like to invite suitably qualified 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: JWNG000199
REF: JWNG000199
Job Summary
To provide an effective geotechnical engineering service to meet the operation’s production objectives.
To provide an effective geotechnical engineering service to meet the operation’s production objectives.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- BSc relevant degree + post graduate qualification in either Rock Mechanics/ Geotech Engineering
- 4 years post qualification experience, 2 of which should have been in a mining environment
- Supervisory Development Training
- Numerical Modelling
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 pits audits to determine compliance to slope angle designs and recommends corrective action of deviation to production and planning personnel
- Develops, evaluates and prioritises geotechnical data acquisition for input into geotechnical models and slope designs
- Analyses and interprets geotechnical mapping, slope monitoring data and strength data and determines parameters for slope angle design
- Analyses final wall blast evaluation data for slopes stability monitoring purposes and blasting improvements initiatives
- Carries out integrated Geotechnical models for slope angle design, slope stability analysis and mine planning, 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 , 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 stabilisation support systems and corrective actions for unstable areas
- Manages and ensure 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 for slope angle optimization based on hydrogeological and geotechnical parameters
- Evaluates pit risks assessments and develops slope failure hazard plan for each pit considering geotechnical conditions
- Plans and control slope failure evacuation simulations and ensures implementation of corrective actions warising 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 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
Closing date and application instructions
Only candidates who meet the above requirements need apply enclosing a current curriculum vitae and certified copies of certificates:
Please indicate the position applied for by quoting the job reference number on the e-mail subject line when sending the e-mail. Send applications to Email: recruitmentJWN@debswana.bw Please reference JWNG000199 in the subject line on both the email and application letter.
Closing date: 14 May 2016
- NB: Only short listed candidates will be responded to.