GROW WITH PHU BIA MINING.

Drill and Blasting Engineer  

• Join our growing company in the dynamic mining industry, multi-cultural team environment
• Excellent opportunity for Mine Production Engineer to join our mining operation
• Generous salary and benefits package – BHX, 20 days on, 8 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 are a growing company, committed to the future development of Lao PDR and its people. By joining the Phu Bia Mining team, you will have the opportunity to truly discover your potential and enjoy a long term, successful career. Working in a multi-cultural environment, you will be supported by experienced expatriates and Lao supervisors who will provide you with training and development and the opportunity to develop and improve your English language skills. You will be rewarded with a generous salary and benefits package, including family medical insurance and performance bonuses. 

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 Senior Drill and Blasting Engineer, you will focus on the provision of delivering an excellent mine planning service which includes ore and waste movement schedules, equipment utilization and production performance analysis, and drill and blasting activities. Provide standard blast design, blast reconciliation and blast master effectively.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Produce, review, daily and weekly drill and blast schedules or plans
• Support approved blast designs to ensure comply with drill and blast process, safety standards, always meet productivity and good efficiency.
• Good experience in drill and blast engineering, optimizing fragmentation to meet mining and processing requirement, minimize ore dilution, blast performance reconciliation and blast improvement to deliver high quality blast outcomes of wall control at final/interim wall and productivity.
• Providing supporting data for blast master to support pit operation and 3 months forecast in timely manner.
• Providing the drill and blast reports for daily, weekly and monthly as require.
• Closely review and monitor drill and blast cost to comply with drill and blast budgets.
• Contractor management for explosive stocks and control, QAQC compliance.
• Maintain and improve PBM drill and blast process as require
• Undertake Drill and blast related project studies and investigation
• Maintain closely relationship with the Geotechnical Engineer in order to optimize pit wall stability, develop a good relationship with mine planning, mine operation, geology and other departments.
• All other duties assigned by the Employee’s supervisor appointed by the company

To be successful in this role, you will require:

• Degree in Mine Engineering or related fields
• Minimum 1 year experience in mining industry as a Drill and Blast Engineer is desirable
• Good verbal and written communication skills both in English and Lao language
• Competency in Microsoft Office, GEOVIA Surpac, JKSimBlast (2DBench), Blastware, Split Desktop analysis and other blasting software relevant
• Strong motivation to work and ability to adapt to a challenging work environment

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=16625&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