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Orica

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1874

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Logistics • Manufacturing

Orica is a global company focused on delivering essential resources for progress and innovation. It emphasizes the importance of its people in leading change and driving technological advancements while addressing challenges faced by customers, communities, and the environment. Orica offers diverse career opportunities, aiming to empower its workforce to shape a positive future through collaboration and growth across various disciplines.

📋 Description

• Deliver remote underground engineering services, including drill and blast design reviews, loading package creation, and design validation for global WebGen™ operations • Develop, review, and optimize underground blast designs for safety, quality, and operational effectiveness • Review blast designs and loading packages against Orica standards and critical control requirements • Analyze blast measurements and performance data to identify improvement and optimization opportunities • Evaluate stope performance, dilution, recovery, blast outcomes, and design success factors • Prepare technical reports, benchmarking studies, and performance analyses • Collaborate with underground operations, technical services teams, WebGen™ specialists, and engineering experts across global regions • Deliver engineering services within agreed service levels and operational timelines • Support mentoring, knowledge sharing, and capability development within the remote engineering team • Contribute to automation, workflow improvement, and engineering service-delivery efficiency initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering • Minimum 5 years of experience in underground metal mining • Strong exposure to underground drill and blast design and mine planning • Hands-on experience in stope design and evaluation, including dilution, recovery, blast performance, and stope stability assessment • Strong understanding of Longhole Open Stoping, Cut & Fill, and Sublevel Stoping • Experience reviewing and interpreting blast performance data and post-blast reconciliation outcomes • Experience using ShotPlus™ UG or other recognized underground blast design software • Strong technical problem-solving skills and sound engineering decision-making • Communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills for working across global teams and cultures • Strong organization, attention to detail, accountability, and commitment to quality and safety • Experience with Deswik, underground mine planning software, WebGen™, or electronic blasting technologies highly regarded

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture • Relationships and learning through connected global and local teams • Flexible and diverse career paths • Support for development of knowledge and skills • Competitive salary • Learning from talented individuals across multiple disciplines • Safe workplace within a collaborative culture • Inclusive and Equal Opportunity Employment culture