Superintendent - Strategic Mine Planning

• Lead the strategic, long and medium-term planning and scheduling functions for George Fisher Mine.
• Prepare and maintain integrated rolling mine plans that align with Life of Asset (LOA), budget and operational objectives.
• Ensure clear alignment between long-term planning strategy, medium-term scheduling and short-term operational execution.
• Identify, communicate and manage key mining constraints relating to development, stoping, ventilation, backfill, infrastructure, services and operational readiness.
• Coordinate planning inputs across Technical Services and Operations to maintain integrated, practical and achievable schedules.
• Support annual budget, forecast and business planning processes through accurate planning assumptions, schedule inputs and risk identification.
• Review planning performance, schedule compliance and forecast accuracy to identify risks, remove constraints and improve future planning reliability.
• Lead strategic planning studies and optimisation initiatives to improve production capability, sequencing flexibility and business performance.
• Maintain planning governance, standards, assumptions and reporting frameworks across the department.
• Coach, mentor, and develop planning engineers and schedulers, building technical capability and accountability within the team.
• Ensure mine plans are developed with safety, practicality and operational execution in mind, supporting compliance with site standards and business objectives.

• Tertiary qualifications in Mining Engineering, Geology, Geoscience or a related discipline, combined with demonstrated underground mine planning capability.
• Significant underground metalliferous mining experience, ideally in complex open stoping operations.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic, long-term or medium-term mine planning within a complex underground mining environment.
• Strong understanding of underground mine development, stoping sequences, ventilation, backfill, infrastructure, services and operational readiness constraints.
• Experience leading integrated planning processes across Technical Services, Operations and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of schedule logic, forecasting, risk management, planning assumptions and production reporting.
• Proven leadership capability within a technical planning environment, including coaching and developing engineers or schedulers.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and coordination skills, with the ability to influence planning discipline and accountability.
• Experience with mine planning and scheduling software such as Deswik or equivalent systems.