Engineer 3 – UG Mine Planning

We are seeking an Engineer 3 – UG Mine Planning to develop and optimise underground mine plans, schedules, production forecasts, and budgets at AngloGold Ashanti Tanzania. The role supports short-, medium-, and long-term underground mine planning, from day-to-week execution through the Life of Mine (LOM), ensuring plans maximise orebody value while meeting production, cost, safety, and strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop underground mine schedules covering short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons.
• Deliver accurate physical mine schedules aligned with reserve and resource confidence across the full asset life.
• Develop options for the optimal development and extraction of the underground orebody.
• Prepare production forecasts and support development of underground mining budgets.
• Authorise and oversee mine physical schedules prepared by Planning Engineers.
• Analyse mining methods, cutoff grades, mine designs, sequencing, infrastructure, and equipment requirements.
• Evaluate the economics of mining and study areas against strategic objectives.
• Support resource identification and evaluation to optimise the mine's development potential.
• Develop mine plans, designs, and executable work packages that maximise underground orebody value.
• Evaluate and introduce equipment, technologies, and working methods that improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Develop standards, procedures, and guidelines for Mine Planning activities and maintain appropriate document control.
• Monitor performance against mine plans and identify and address schedule, grade, and production variances.
• Communicate threats to budget delivery and develop mitigation plans to minimise business impacts.
• Conduct formal risk assessments for monthly schedules and quarterly forecasts.
• Incorporate safety-in-design principles into mine layouts, development sequencing, and underground infrastructure specifications.
• Support Operational Excellence initiatives and identify opportunities for measurable value creation.
• Prepare comprehensive Life of Mine handover packages covering strategic intent, mine designs, infrastructure specifications, production schedules, financial models, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Contribute to development of Mine Technical Services capability required to deliver annual budgets and the Life of Mine Plan.
• Support effective planning, safe work practices, and performance monitoring within the Mine Planning function.
• Ensure compliance with SHE&C plans, procedures, management systems, and processes.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with operational teams, business partners, contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders.
• Identify development needs of direct reports and support their technical and professional development.
• Apply appropriate people-management practices within the underground Mine Technical Services function.
• Ensure Mine Scheduling activities comply with established standards, procedures, and guidelines.

Requirements

• Degree in Mining Engineering or another relevant discipline.
• Professional registration with the Engineers Registration Board (ERB).
• At least 7 years of operational experience in underground mining.
• Strong underground mine planning, design, and scheduling experience.
• Experience with mine planning and design software including Deswik, Studio UG, EPS, Ventsim, Vulcan, and mine stope optimisation tools.
• Experience in resource and reserve estimation.
• Strong knowledge of underground mine design and development sequencing.
• Experience specifying underground mining infrastructure.
• Knowledge of mine scheduling and production forecasting.
• Experience with mining equipment selection and optimisation.
• Experience with mining cost estimation and budgeting.
• Knowledge of discounted cash flow analysis and mining economics.
• Experience managing contractors and consultants.
• Sound understanding of mining value drivers and operational risks.
• Ability to analyse production, grade, physical, and schedule variances.
• Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills.
• Good technical report-writing skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Leadership and people-development capability.
• Commitment to safety and AngloGold Ashanti's values.