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• Exercise stop-work authority for any safety concern and hold the engineering team to that same standard in every design, review, and field inspection.
• Ensure engineering designs and work plans comply with federal and state mining regulations and with company safety standards before they are released to operations.
• Own the technical standards and safe operating procedures governing ground control and blasting and ensure they are reviewed and updated as conditions change.
• Participate in incident investigations where design, sequencing, or ground conditions are contributing factors, and drive the resulting corrective actions to closure.

• Own the integrity and accuracy of the mine plan across all horizons: life-of-mine, annual budget, quarterly forecast, and the short-range plans that drive daily execution.
• Approve designs, drill and blast packages, pit development sequencing, and ancillary/project designs prepared by the engineering team.
• Provide technical oversight of stockpile and waste dump management.
• Ensure the design basis for every plan is documented and defensible, including assumptions on dilution, recovery, cycle times, and equipment productivity.
• Direct the reconciliation program, comparing planned to actual tonnage, grade, dilution, and cycle time, and ensure findings feed forward into subsequent plans.
• Establish and maintain the standards, templates, and modeling conventions used across the group so that work is consistent, auditable, and transferable between engineers.

• Partner with the Mine Operations Superintendents to ensure the plan reflects real operational constraints — equipment availability, crew capability, and spatial conflicts — before it is issued to the field.
• Attend the weekly planning meetings, ensuring conflicts are identified and resolved, or that contingency plans are in place, before the plan is committed.
• Coordinate with Maintenance to align equipment availability and major component schedules with the mining sequence.
• Maintain a visible field presence, conducting regular inspections with operations leadership to confirm that work is being executed to design and to standard.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point when ground conditions, equipment failures, or grade variability require the plan to be reworked in cycle.

• Lead the mine engineering contribution to the annual reserve and resource statement, including mine design, cut-off grade application, and mineable shape definition.
• Own the mining portion of the annual operating and capital budget, including plan development, consumables, and unit cost assumptions.
• Track performance against budget through the year and provide variance analysis and forecast revisions to site and corporate management.
• Evaluate alternative mining methods, equipment fleets, and sequencing options through trade-off studies, and present recommendations with supporting economics.

• Lead, coach, and develop the mine engineering team, setting clear expectations and holding people accountable for the quality and timeliness of their work.
• Build the technical team through structured mentoring, deliberate rotation across planning, drill and blast, and active succession planning for key roles.
• Conduct performance reviews, set development goals, and address performance concerns directly and fairly.
• Manage departmental resourcing, including workload balancing, recruitment, and the appropriate use of consultants and contract engineering support.
• Represent the engineering function to site leadership, corporate technical services, auditors, and external consultants, and present technical work clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Identify and lead business improvement initiatives that reduce mining cost per tonne, improve productivity, or reduce operational risk, and quantify the results delivered.
• Own the mine engineering reporting suite, including plan compliance, development and production performance, reconciliation, and unit cost indicators, and ensure reporting is accurate and issued on schedule.
• Ensure mine planning and design software, survey systems, and data management practices are current, well governed, and applied consistently across the team.
• Critique the cost and operating practice of each mining area and translate accepted improvements into updated standards and safe operating procedures.
• Contribute to site strategic planning and technical studies, including expansion, mine life extension, and closure planning inputs.

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