Senior Strategic Planning Lead

Senior Strategic Planning Lead

Engineering  – Red Lake

Be a part of the initial team to grow and operate a regionally significant new underground mine development that is rapidly becoming the future of the iconic Red Lake gold mining district in Ontario, Canada.

Reporting to the Chief Mine Engineer, the successful candidate will work mostly remote 5:2 4:3 roaster with few travels to site whenever needed to lead the strategic planning team to executive mid range to long term planning work packages for the engineering team to support the safe development of the mine to achieve and surpass production targets while adding value to the Red Lake Madsen mine.

 The Focus of this role will include:

• Lead and Mentor a team of Long term and Mid Range Planning engineers

• Responsible for the annual Reserves and Resource estimation, annual MRMR reporting, annual cut-off grade guidance, Strategic Planning of LOM and LoAP


• Lead the completion of trade-off and cost analysis studies for varying mining methods, infrastructure options, mining sequence, capital spend timelines etc


• Collaborate with Geology to plan definition infill drilling programs based on geological confidence of material and mining sequence depletion strategy to support a steady production profile for the Life of Mine Plan


• Maintain essential link between the strategic planning horizon to the short term planning horizon to promote operational budget execution compliance to plan


• Manage the onsite reconciliation process


• Develop underground mine infrastructure design and support their timely construction


• Generate and update all needed Planning Standard Procedures within the strategic planning of the engineering department.


• Manage the mid range designs for both CAPEX and OPEX for upcoming mining blocks through detailed conceptual approvals of developments and stopes


• Generate the annual Business Plan for the mine


• Laise with Geology and Geotech to apply all design criteria and approved design parameters to the LOM and mid range designs

• Foster strong stakeholder engagement across site departments including Geology, Geotechnical, Ventilation, Mine Operation, Processing and Maintenance to ensure long term and mid range designs are operationally feasible to develop

Skills and Experience:

• A B.Sc Mining Engineering or equivalent is essential and a P.Eng. qualification is a must have or ability to gain P.Eng.


• Experience in a range of mine planning horizons including long term, medium term and short term planning as well as exposure to operational roles such as production coordinator, mine dispatcher and crew supervision are desirable


• Self-starter, strong collaboration skills and effective presentation skills


• Ability to maintain strong communication network between engineering and other department heads


• More than 10 years of experience with significant experience on conventional and mechanized underground mining methods with exposure to paste fills, consolidated rock fill and unconsolidated rock fill


• Advanced competence in the use of Deswik mine planning software to generate optimized mine designs and schedules


• Strong knowledge of exploration methods and resource estimation


• Smart problem-solving techniques and 3D visualization skills are essential

*** Must be willing to complete a criminal background check along with pre-employment Drug and Alcohol test***

Red Lake Madsen Mine is an equal opportunity employer who appreciates all those interested in working on this exciting project.