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Ground Support Supervisor

• Join and grow with our mining company, multi-cultural team environment
• Great an opportunity to gain the drilling and logging experiences as a Core Logger role with the excellent standard of safety
• Generous salary and benefits package – Roaming, 14 days on, 7 days off roster

THIS POSITION IS AVAILABLE TO LAO NATIONALS ONLY.

This is an exciting time to join PanAust and our subsidiary company, Phu Bia Mining in Laos. Our Phu Kham Copper-Gold Operation and our Ban Houayxai Gold-Silver Operation in Laos are both delivering strong production and cost performances and are targeted to reach peak production over the next few years. In addition, the PanAust Group is progressing well in its Stage 1 Feasibility Study of the newly acquired Frieda River Copper Project in PNG.

We offer many different career opportunities at our mine and exploration sites and in our Vientiane office; and as an employer who values diversity, we encourage women to apply for all available positions.  Our modern mine camps provide great Lao, Asian and Western food, sport and recreational facilities and housekeeping services. Site-based employees work a roster of 20 days on, 8 days off or 14 days on, 7 days off for shift work, while Vientiane – based employees work 5 days per week with 2 days off.

Reporting to the TSF Construction Superintendent, you will be responded for supervising the Ground Support activities and allocated projects functions and mentor staff ensuring that the Ground Support plan and specifications are met, and on schedule, costs are controlled, and a trained work force is available to meet PKM /BHX needs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• All ground support activities.
• Ground Support equipment and consumables. 
• Liaises with Geotech senior engineers.
• Willingness to participate in other parts of the operations as instructed by the Superintendent.  
• The incumbent is responsible for ensuring:
• Control and management of costs to stay within budget.
• Ground Support to plan and meets design specifications instructions issued by the designer.
• Complies with QA/QC recommendations.
• Working surfaces are prepared to minimise equipment damage.
• Record keeping of stock.
• Ordering and maintaining stock levels of consumables.

To be successful in this role, you will require:

• Qualification in Geotechnical Engineering, would be an advantage, but not necessary.
• Knowledge of open cut mining and drilling practices, any knowledge of ground support would be an advantage.
• Must have strong leadership skills in controlling and developing a team and enforce PBM’s disciplinary codes when required.
• Be able to provide a safe work environment for the team, be able to identify risks, help develop procedures and follow PBM standards.
• Be able to control and manage costs related to ground support.
• Good communication skills in English would be preferred.
• Good computer skills in using Microsoft Office suite.
• Self-motivated individual with effective organizational skills.
• Can be flexible with rosters, in the event of priority work.

For questions regarding this position or our recruitment process, please contact our recruitment team on +856 (0) 21 268 000

If you are interested in applying for the position, we encourage you to apply online via our website at: 

https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=16582&company=PanAust 

Or you can download our application form: 

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1BC0i03kRuDnGoVuSVs8OVWOh19CTyANr

and apply via our email Kaikham.khambanxay@pbm.panaust.com