Mine Planning Engineer

JDS Energy & Mining • Challis, ID

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Mine Planning Engineer designs, schedules, and optimizes mining sequences to support safe, sustainable, and profitable mineral extraction. The role connects long-term life-of-mine goals with daily pit or underground operations, using spatial modeling and scheduling software to balance ore quality, equipment utilization, and waste management. The position is based in Challis, Idaho, United States, on a 2x2 rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering, Geological Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 3 to 7+ years of progressive engineering experience working directly on-site in a surface or underground mining operation.
• Advanced hands-on experience with standard mine design and sequencing platforms such as Deswik and Vulcan.
• Strong analytical skills using Excel, Power BI, or coding languages such as VBA or Python to model fleet logic and production metrics.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to explain complex spatial plans and operational variations to on-site crews and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize detailed pit phases, pushbacks, stopes, haul roads, waste dumps, and stockpile layouts using specialized industry software.
• Prepare rolling short- to medium-term mine plans and production schedules, from weekly targets to 24-month forecasts, to meet extraction and processing goals.
• Track, analyze, and report actual daily production against the established mine plan; identify deviations, analyze root causes, and implement corrective action plans.
• Coordinate with Geology, Geotechnical, Survey, and Daily Operations to incorporate physical constraints, regulatory conditions, and safety measures into executable mine plans.
• Evaluate scenarios to maximize resource recovery, support appropriate ore blending, minimize haulage cycle times, and reduce cost-per-tonne metrics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level