Senior Long Term Planning Engineer

Senior Long Term Planning Engineer

Position Description

The Kibali Gold Mine Team are seeking to recruit a Senior Long Term Planning Engineer to lead the development, optimisation, and governance of integrated underground Life-of-Mine plans that support safe, practical, and value-driven mining outcomes.

You will be expected to align to the Barrick DNA and to operate within our mining assets and with our teams. You will contribute in a safe and cost-effective manner towards achieving targets in accordance with Mine Safety Standards, Policies and Procedures.

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Mine Planning

- Lead the development, review, and optimisation of integrated underground Life-of-Mine plans, ensuring alignment with reserve models, production targets, capital requirements, and business planning assumptions.
- Integrate resource and reserve models with stope designs to generate reliable long-term production forecasts, including ore tonnes, grade profiles, development meters, material movement, and infrastructure timing.
- Optimise stope sequencing, development layouts, infrastructure placement, and orebody extraction strategies to maximise long-term value, production reliability, resource recovery, and capital efficiency.
- Conduct scenario planning, trade-off studies, and sensitivity analyses to evaluate alternative mining strategies, production profiles, economic outcomes, and key risks or constraints.
- Define and validate key planning assumptions, including mining rates, dilution, recovery, cut-off grades, sequencing constraints, ventilation capacity, backfill requirements, and operational dependencies.

Mine Design & Scheduling

- Generate long-term stope designs, access development layouts, ventilation and services corridors, and infrastructure schedules using appropriate mine planning software, preferably Deswik.
- Coordinate stope and infrastructure design with short-term, medium-term, geology, geotechnical, ventilation, projects, and operations teams to ensure alignment across planning horizons.
- Monitor actual versus planned performance and support reconciliation between the LOM plan, budget, medium-term plan, and operational outcomes.
- Ensure all mine designs and schedules are practical, executable, and compliant with safety, statutory, ground control, ventilation, emergency egress, and site planning standards.

Planning Governance & Reporting

- Support annual business planning, reserve review processes, budget cycles, and technical governance requirements through accurate long-term schedules, reports, and planning inputs.
- Prepare clear LOM planning reports, production schedules, material movement forecasts, development profiles, grade forecasts, and capital infrastructure timing inputs for management review.
- Maintain and improve mine planning standards, methodologies, assumptions, and review processes to support consistent, transparent, and auditable planning outputs.

Collaboration & Communication

- Liaise with geology, geotechnical, ventilation, projects, short-term planning, medium-term planning, and operational teams to incorporate key inputs into practical and executable mine plans.
- Present planning outcomes, risks, opportunities, and scenario analyses to management and stakeholders, including clear justification of design and schedule decisions.
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to planning engineers and contribute to the ongoing development of planning capability within the technical services team.

Project & Cost Inputs

- Provide long-range production, operating cost, development, and capital inputs for budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes.
- Identify and sequence underground infrastructure requirements, including ventilation, dewatering, electrical reticulation, backfill, access, and material handling systems aligned with long-term mining strategies.
- Support capital planning, project evaluation, and strategic initiatives related to mine development, infrastructure, paste or backfill systems, mining method optimisation, and expansion opportunities.

Qualification Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering.
- Professional registration will be advantageous.

Experience and Skills Requirements

- 8–10 years’ experience in underground hard rock mining, with a strong focus on long hole stoping.
- Significant exposure to long-term mine planning, scheduling, and strategic mine design.
- Demonstrated experience in Life-of-Mine planning, reserve conversion, production forecasting, infrastructure sequencing, and underground mining trade-off studies.
- Strong underground mine design, scheduling, and sequencing capability, preferably within mechanised underground operations and long-hole open stoping environments.
- Advanced proficiency in Deswik mine planning and scheduling software.
- Strong understanding of underground mining economics, cost drivers, capital planning, operational constraints, cut-off grade strategy, dilution, recovery, backfill, ventilation, and value optimisation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, report writing, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills, with the ability to influence and present technical recommendations at senior management level.

What We Can Offer You

- A comprehensive compensation package including bonuses and site-specific benefits.
- The ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues are endless.
- Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.

We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.

Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.