Job Title: Head of Mine Planning & Production
Duration: Long term expected
Schedule: Rotation to be discussed
Location: Angola
This opportunity is based at a mine site and offers senior-level accountability across mine planning, production execution, and technical services in a large-scale open-pit diamond mining environment. The role is focused on integrating geology, drill-and-blast, fleet management, dispatch, and plant coordination into one reconciled production system that delivers against grade, strip ratio, carats, and unit cost targets. This position will play a key part in life-of-mine planning, short-interval control, reconciliation, and operational performance improvement within a technically demanding mining operation.
Preferred Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering
Required Experience:
- Minimum 15 years of experience in open-pit mining
- At least 5 years in a Mining Manager, Technical Services Manager, or Production Superintendent position at a large open-pit operation with more than 20 Mt total material movement per year
- Experience with a recognised major mining house or a comparable mining environment
- Experience with owner-operated and contractor-mining models
- Experience working with large OEM mining fleets, including Komatsu and Caterpillar equipment
Required Skills:
- Strong capability in life-of-mine planning, annual planning, quarterly and monthly scheduling, and weekly plan delivery
- Expertise in pit optimisation, cut-off grade analysis, strip-ratio economics, and cost modelling per tonne and per carat
- Experience using mine planning software such as Deswik, GEOVIA, Surpac, Whittle, MineSched, Maptek Vulcan, Datamine, or Micromine
- Experience with fleet-management and dispatch systems such as Modular DISPATCH, Wenco, or Hexagon
- Strong understanding of drill-and-blast engineering, fragmentation analysis, dilution control, and ore loss management
- Knowledge of reconciliation frameworks, including plan versus mined versus treated versus recovered performance analysis
- Experience with time-usage models, short-interval control, KPI tracking, and continuous improvement routines
- Strong understanding of geotechnical fundamentals for open-pit mining, survey integration, and volume reconciliation
- English at fluent professional level
- Strong analytical decision-making, data-led planning, cross-functional collaboration, and team development capability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Australia, or equivalent (Strongly preferred)
- Post-graduate qualification in Mine Planning, Mineral Economics, or MBA
- Kimberlite open-pit mining experience
- Experience with pit-to-underground transition studies
- Track record of building planning capability in a new or ramping-up operation
- Portuguese language capability (Preferred)