Freelance Consultant, SME – Underground Development & Drill & Blast Specialist, Metals & Mining

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🌐 Peru, Chile, +1 more countries – Remote

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dss+

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1001 - 5000 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Logistics

dss+ is a global consulting firm that specializes in delivering safety, risk management, and operational efficiency solutions across various industries. The company focuses on transforming culture, maximizing sustainability, enabling digital transformation, and building capabilities through training. dss+ works with sectors such as agriculture, food and beverage, chemicals, petrochemicals, electronics, and more to improve safety performance and risk value protection. They aim to help clients adapt to dynamic times by developing customized strategies that enhance operations, integrate ESG considerations, and drive performance improvements. Their approach includes diagnostics, continuous improvement, enterprise risk management, and digitalization using their dss⁺ MIRA™ technologies.

📋 Description

• Review operational procedures covering the underground mine development cycle, including drilling, charging, blasting, ventilation, scaling, ground support, mucking, haulage, and mine service installation • Assess alignment between documented procedures, field execution, and industry good practice • Evaluate operational and safety risks associated with underground development activities • Identify hazards, credible scenarios, control gaps, and Critical Controls • Review procedures from operational and risk management perspectives • Support development and enhancement of risk-based operational procedures and standards • Define operational hold points, authorization requirements, and stop-work criteria where appropriate • Conduct technical reviews, field observations, interviews, and specialist workshops • Engage with operators, supervisors, engineers, and contractors to validate procedural effectiveness • Develop recommendations that improve operational performance and strengthen risk controls • Apply underground mining expertise to strengthen risk management practices and support safer, more effective operations

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in underground mining operations • Minimum 5 years directly involved in underground mine development activities • Hands-on experience with mechanized underground development • Practical experience with drilling equipment, charging systems, explosives, LHDs, and underground haulage equipment • Experience managing or supervising underground development contractors • Experience reviewing, developing, implementing, or improving operational procedures and SOPs • Experience supporting underground mine construction, expansion, Operational Readiness, or ramp-up activities • Experience implementing risk-based operational procedures and Critical Control Management principles • Experience in Latin American underground mining operations is advantageous • Deep understanding of underground mine development cycles and sequencing • Strong expertise in development drilling, charging, blasting, and explosives management • Knowledge of blast clearance requirements, exclusion zones, and post-blast re-entry criteria • Understanding of mucking, haulage, ground support interfaces, and underground services installation • Ability to identify gaps between documented procedures and actual operational practices • Ability to identify hazards, credible scenarios, and Critical Controls • Ability to translate operational experience into practical and executable procedures • Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and workshop leadership capability • Ability to establish operational hold points, authorization requirements, and stop-work criteria • Strong technical writing skills in English • Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering • Professional engineering registration or equivalent preferred • Additional qualifications in underground mining or blasting are advantageous • Advanced English required

🏖️ Benefits

• Values-led organisation where work helps save lives, improve performance, and advance sustainability • Inclusive and collaborative environment • Diverse perspectives and respectful culture • Opportunity to develop trusted expertise through complex operational challenges • Collaboration with mining and risk-management professionals across the globe • Opportunity to contribute to projects that improve operational performance, strengthen critical controls, and support safer workplaces