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Coeur Mining attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:
- A stimulating values-based work environment
- A culture of collaboration and inclusion
- Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Career development opportunities
- A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement
- A competitive total compensation program
- A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan
About Coeur Mining
Coeur Mining is a growing, all-North American precious metals producer with seven operations: the Las Chispas silver-gold mine and Palmarejo gold-silver complex in Mexico, the Rochester silver-gold mine in Nevada, the Kensington gold mine in Alaska, the Wharf gold mine in South Dakota, the Rainy River gold mine in Ontario, Canada, and the New Afton copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, Coeur owns the Silvertip silver-zinc-lead exploration project in British Columbia.
Coeur offers a flexible, hybrid work model and a culture built on safety, collaboration, and real opportunities to develop your career for those who want to grow alongside a company that is doing the same.
New Afton
Situated 10 kilometers west of Kamloops, British Columbia, the New Afton mine is an underground gold and copper producing site.
Kamloops is a city of 105,000 people, located 350 kilometers east of Vancouver. The area provides the opportunity to live and work in a vibrant community with its own university and within easy reach of world class ski resorts, championship golf courses, mountain biking trails, popular recreational lakes and award-winning vineyards.
About The Role
Schedule: 4x3 Mon-Thu or 5x2 Mon-Fri
Position Reports to: Senior Mine Engineer or Technical Services Superintendent
Overview
The Mine Planning Engineer supports New Afton operations through short- and mid‑range mine planning, design, and reporting activities. This role is responsible for maintaining mine schedules, preparing monthly plans and physicals, identifying schedule risks and improvement opportunities, and providing engineering and economic support for operational projects, studies, and contractor work in collaboration with site teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Major/minor mine design changes
- Month-end reporting
- Update and maintain mid-range schedule, key outputs include:
- Create monthly 3-month plans
- Mine physicals for all budgets and forecasts
- Assist with forecast and budget cost estimates and updates
- Identifying opportunities for improvement to schedule, or identifying risks to schedule
- Level plots
- Overbreak analysis & reporting
- Provide drill & blast prints as needed
- Construction prints as needed
- Short range planner training as required
Other Responsibilities
- Operational study/project support:
- Provide engineering support for miscellaneous studies or projects
- Help prepare RFP's, RFQ's and AFE's for upcoming work
- Coordinate with other teams to ensure materials required for plans are available – fans, consumables, ground support, etc.
- Economic assessment / trade-off for engineering/design choices as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Mining Engineering or Geological Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Registered P.Eng with EGBC
- 3+ years of experience in underground mining operations
- Proficient with Microsoft excel
- Experience with using Deswick
Other Requirements
Candidates will be required to participate in a comprehensive qualification process, including:
- Successful completion of pre-placement functional screen
- Provide proof of a valid Class 5 driver’s license
- Demonstrate eligibility to work in Canada
- Provide confirmation of valid educational requirements
Compensation
The anticipated salary for this position will be between $110,000 to $120,000. A comprehensive benefits program and performance bonus plan will also be provided. This is not a camp operation and therefore the successful candidate will be required to relocate to the Kamloops area or travel and accommodation will be the responsibility of the successful applicant.
Inclusion, Equal Opportunity, Accessibility
Coeur Mining is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Indigenous status or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.
Additional Information
We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. Coeur Mining does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, headhunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with the Company. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by Coeur Mining will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered
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Applicants can submit their resume and cover letter until 11:59pm on June 12, 2026
