Responsibilities:

As a Senior Mining Engineer reporting to the Mine Manager and acting as Mine Manager at his absence, my responsibilities included but were not limited to:
	Ensuring conformity of operations with pit waste dump and stockpile designs by working in a wide collaboration with mine geologists, mining and explosives contractors,
	Designing or redesigning pits or stages of pits, stockpiles and waste dumps to suit safety, geology, geotechnical and operational needs/constraints,
	Planning for Short- and Medium-Term operations according to budget using Excl, Surpac and MineSched,
	Forecasting on a monthly basis, explosives, blast accessories and stemming quantities,
	Examining and approving blast and tie up plans proposals submitted by contractor engineers,
	Keeping an updated blast register,
	Ensuring adequate daily, weekly and monthly mine reporting,
	Ensuring EoM drill and blast and volume movement accuracy before physicals are entered into the claim file,
	Checking EoM invoices from contractors for approval,
	Looking continuously at ways of improving in business optimisation,
	Ensuring all incidents to near misses are duly reported and investigated according to the Company policies,
	Leading by example as a Senior staff according to the Company HSE procedures.

Accomplishments:

As a project initiator, the following are no exhaustive accomplishments done:
	Excel based daily, weekly and monthly database system and report files proposed for Daily Reports,
	Implementing and keeping up-to-date the bench plans the contractors to propose drill and blast plans,
	Implementing computer-based simulation for tie up plans using Shotplus,
	Conceiving Excel based EoM quantity files proposed for invoices checking,
	Successfully presenting a technical report/proposal to the Ministry of Mine of Burkina to seek exploitation permit for the Underground mine
