Responsibilities:

As a Senior Staff reporting to the Open Pit Mine Manager, my responsibilities include but are not limited to:
	Working in a wide collaboration with mine geologists, mining and explosives contractors to ensure conformity of operations with pit waste dump and stockpile designs,
	Designing or redesigning pits or stages of pits, stockpiles and waste dumps to suit safety, geotechnical and operational needs/constraints,
	Planning for Short- and Medium-Term operations in line with budget and forecast constraints,
	Designing and keeping up-to-date the blast masters of the active pits for the contractors to propose drill and blast plans,
	Ensuring due contractors management for correct sequencing of drill and blast and mining operations,
	Ensuring due explosives, blast accessories and stemming forecast on a monthly basis,
	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 got approved by Mine Manager for Daily Reports,
	Successful Drill and Parameters constant changes to ground conditions,
	Excel based blast register file proposed got approved by Mine Manager,
	Excel based EoM quantity files proposed got approved by Mine Manager for invoices checking,
	Approved starter pit designs, approved by corporate technical staff.
