Location: Site-Based at Blue Moon Metals’ Apex Property in St George, Utah, USA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Manager, Special Projects
About the Role
The Underground Mine Engineer provides technical and planning support for underground mine development and production activities at Apex. This role prepares Mine designs, schedules, production plans, and engineering analyses while monitoring execution and responding to changing underground conditions.
Working closely with Mine Operations, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Maintenance, Projects, Survey, and Health and Safety, the Underground Mine Engineer helps ensure that mine plans are safe, practical, and aligned with production objectives. The role combines office-based engineering with regular underground field involvement.
Key Responsibilities
Underground Mine Planning & Design
- Develop short- and medium-range underground mine plans, designs, schedules, and production forecasts.
- Prepare development layouts, access designs, production sequences, and related underground infrastructure plans.
- Incorporate geological, geotechnical, ventilation, equipment, and operational requirements into mine designs.
- Waste rock planning and backfill management
Operational Engineering Support
- Provide daily technical support to underground Operations and assist with the execution of approved mine plans.
- Monitor development and production performance against plan and investigate schedule, productivity, and cost variances.
- Conduct regular underground inspections to verify conditions, progress, and alignment with engineering designs.
Drill, Blast & Ground Support
- Support the preparation and optimization of development and production drilling and blasting designs.
- Coordinate with Geotechnical Engineering and Operations regarding ground-support requirements and changing ground conditions.
- Review blast results, excavation performance, overbreak, dilution, and other operating outcomes to identify improvements.
Technical Analysis & Reporting
- Complete engineering analyses involving development rates, production capacity, equipment requirements, material movement, and mine infrastructure.
- Maintain accurate mine-planning records, production data, drawings, schedules, and technical reports.
- Support reconciliation between planned and actual development, production, tonnage, grade, and costs.
Health, Safety & Compliance
- Incorporate health, safety, environmental, geotechnical, ventilation, and regulatory requirements into mine plans and designs.
- Participate in risk assessments, workplace inspections, design reviews, incident investigations, and change-management processes.
- Identify and communicate underground hazards, planning constraints, and conditions requiring corrective action.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Coordinate mine-planning requirements with Operations, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Survey, Maintenance, Projects, and Health and Safety.
- Communicate plans, priorities, technical requirements, and schedule changes to affected stakeholders, ensuring where required collaboration and communication with the corporate mining team.
- Identify opportunities to improve safety, productivity, development performance, resource recovery, and operating efficiency.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering or a related engineering discipline
- Professional Engineer licensure in the applicable state, or eligibility to obtain the appropriate designation, is preferred
- Minimum 3 years’ underground mine-engineering experience.
- Experience with underground mine planning, design, scheduling, and operational support.
- Familiarity with underground development, production drilling and blasting, ground support, ventilation, and mine infrastructure.
- Experience interpreting geological, survey, and geotechnical information.
- Experience using mine-planning and design software.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to meet all site-access and underground-work requirements.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of underground mine-planning, design, and production principles.
- Ability to prepare practical mine designs and schedules that reflect field conditions and operational requirements.
- Proficiency with relevant mine-planning, design, scheduling, and data-analysis software.
- Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to interpret mine plans, survey information, geological models, and geotechnical data.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively with technical and operational teams.
Personal Attributes
- Safety-focused and comfortable working in an underground mining environment.
- Practical, analytical, and attentive to detail.
- Proactive in identifying risks, constraints, and improvement opportunities.
- Collaborative and able to build effective relationships with field and technical personnel.
- Adaptable and able to respond to changing underground conditions and operational priorities.
- Accountable and committed to producing accurate, high-quality engineering work.
Working Conditions
- This is a primarily site-based role at the Apex property.
- Work involves a combination of office-based engineering and regular underground inspections.
- Requires travel through active underground development and production areas.
- The position may involve exposure to confined work areas, uneven ground, dust, noise, mobile equipment, reduced lighting, and varying underground conditions.
- Required personal protective equipment must be worn in designated areas.
Why Join
- Apply your engineering expertise directly to the planning and advancement of an underground mining project.
- Gain broad exposure to underground development, production planning, drill-and-blast activities, ground control, and mine infrastructure.
- Take on meaningful technical responsibility while continuing to develop your underground mine-engineering career.
- Receive competitive compensation and benefits while contributing to a safety-focused and collaborative organization.
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