An exciting opportunity has arisen at our iconic Granny Smith mine site for a values-driven, dynamic leader with a passion for driving operational excellence.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Reporting to the Unit Manager: Technical Services, you will be responsible for the leadership of the Mine Planning Engineering Departments, playing a crucial role in overseeing and optimising mine planning activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective extraction of gold resources. You will contribute to organisational success by delivering optimised mining forecasts for underground operations through pragmatic, effective, and collaborative mine planning. These range from the short-term (implementation) through to medium-term (3 years) requirements (including annual budget forecasts) aligned to the life of mine & strategic direction of the business.
As an employee at Gold Fields, we expect you to act in a manner that seeks to align and enhance the values, safety culture, and performance of Gold Fields with the purpose of creating enduring value beyond mining.
Why Join Gold Fields?
- Life-Friendly Roster – 8 days on 6 days off, 4 days on 3 days off roster, and is Fly in Fly out from Perth.
- Cultural and Family Leave – 1 week paid + 1-week unpaid cultural leave, 5 weeks annual leave, 18 weeks parental leave, and long service leave after 5 years
- Financial Support – Up to $6,000 Private Health Insurance Allowance, Annual Bonus and Long-Term Incentive Scheme
- Supportive Team Culture – Work with a network of People professionals who value learning, sharing, and growing together
Your key responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve planning systems, ensuring that all are documented, controlled, and auditable across the business.
- Work with technical and operational teams to optimise mining performance
- Collaboratively review and update mine plans to leverage off ongoing exploration, performance, and operational feedback, aligning operations to annual business objectives and LOM strategy.
- Ensure the most effective production profile through the preparation of robust mine schedules by assessing and managing operational and technical risk
- Contribute to the most efficient utilisation of resources by ensuring that projects are ranked and evaluated in an appropriate manner that is aligned with strategic objectives.
- Foster a culture of business and continuous improvement by regularly identifying and pursuing opportunities
- Provide leadership, mentorship, training, and development opportunities to team members.
What will you bring?
- A Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) will complement your extensively demonstrated underground practical experience.
- Demonstrated understanding of developing operationally ready mine designs and schedules, managing engineering workflows, and technical study work.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, as well as demonstrated ability to support a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrated experience in Deswik.CAD, Deswik.Sched, Ventsim, and Microsoft Office
Applications can be submitted via: https://careers.goldfields.com/Australia by the 30th of October 2025
Gold Fields is committed to achieving an inclusive workforce. We recognise that the diverse talent of our people will ultimately determine our growth, performance and success. We strongly encourage applications from female, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, as well as candidates with culturally diverse backgrounds.
