Engineer Mining

Salary Range: $95,000 - $105,000 with Bonus Potential

• Mine Design & Planning:
  • Prepare short-term and long-term pit designs, extraction plans, and production schedules.
  • Optimize quarry sequencing to maximize reserves and minimize haul distances.
  • Coordinate overburden stripping, dewatering, and reclamation activities.
  • Conduct geological mapping, sampling, and reserve modeling to support raw material blend consistency.
  • Monitor quality and coordinate with the quality control technicians and production teams to maintain desired chemical and physical compositions (e.g., CaCO₃, SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Fe₂O₃ ratios).
• Drilling, Blasting & Production Support:
  • Manage blasting programs to achieve proper rock fragmentation and meet crusher feed requirements.
  • Evaluate drill and blast performance and recommend improvements to lower cost and enhance productivity.
  • Support mobile equipment selection, utilization, and performance tracking.
• Safety & Compliance:
  • Enforce MSHA, OSHA, and environmental regulations.
  • Conduct safety audits, risk assessments, and training initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with air, water, and land-use permits.
• Exploration:
  • Develop exploration plans to fill in or supplement the existing geologic model.
  • Acquire bids for, and manage, exploratory drilling, core testing, and logging.
• Assist in development of annual budgets for mining operations.
• Monitor operating costs and implement cost reduction measures.
• Technical Support:
  • Participate/Manage feasibility studies, equipment evaluations, and mine optimization projects.
  • Manage special projects
    - This could include but is not limited to direct supervision of personal on a project, design of and implementation of projects, and field mapping/collection data.
  • Maintain mine maps, survey data, and production reports.
  • Collaborate with environmental teams on reclamation and land restoration projects.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering, Geological Engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience: 2–5 years of experience in aggregates or surface mining.
• Skills:
• Strong knowledge of open-pit quarry operations.
• Proficiency with mine planning tools (AutoCAD, Carlson, Mine Plan 3D, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Preferred: EIT/PE license, MSHA certification, cement, lime or another industrial mineral experience
• Outdoor quarry environment; exposure to dust, noise, vibration, and weather conditions.
• Frequent field presence required to oversee active mining areas.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee will frequently be required to walk on rocky, irregular surfaces that may be muddy and in reduced lighting conditions.

The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, confined space, outside weather conditions, low lighting, artificial lighting, and explosives.

The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, proximity to electrical equipment, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment…