Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
North Mara started commercial production in 2002. The mine is a combined open pit and underground operation from two deposits, Gokona (underground) and Nyabirama (open pit).

Responsibilities
• Ensure that systems and programs in place promote employee compliance with operating
• standards and safe work procedures.
• Actively participate in and promote health, safety, and environment initiatives, aligned with the company's overall business strategy
• Create a working environment that ensures that subordinate employees gain new skills and
• achieve their full potential by developing and implementing effective training and mentoring/coaching programs. Especially the development of National Drilling Supervisors and Drillers
• Effective management of Drill & Blast activities in North Mara Gold Mine and outside the mining
• area in accordance with Barrick safety, quality and environmental policies and standard
• procedures from operational point of view.
• Effective management of the drill fleet to ensure a high level of efficiency and productivity is
• achieved.
• Participate in the development of work schedules to ensure Drill & Blast activities and
• requirements are achieved within the desired work schedules and budgeted targets.
• Participate in the development, implementation and reporting of Drill & Blast continuous
• improvement and KPI initiatives.
• Preparation of drill plans and charge plans for production and pre-split operations at Nth Mara
• Open Cast mine.
• Progress tracking plans in line with schedule
• Monitoring the quality of blasting and optimizing requirements for operational activities.
• Assist with preparation of budgets and forecasts of explosives and drilling consumables
• Identify opportunities to optimize drill and blast activities that result in business improvements
• Monitor and review drill and blast parameters with a view on fragmentation, digability, cost.
• Contribute to mine planning, provide feedback on pattern performance, and mine plan process,
• and keep records of associated documents.
• Development and implementation of weekly drill and blast schedules to meet monthly targets
• Monitor blast performance with particular emphasis on controlling of fragmentation, overbreaks
• and underbreaks.
• Provide technical expertise and liaison with explosives supplier to resolve product quality issues
• and manage explosive product stock levels.
• Collaborate to provide technical support to ensure Drill and Blast activities and plans are timely,
• reliable, and realistic.
• Ensure there are proper allocations of the drill rigs by delivering the required results as per the
• existing budget.
• Collaborate to provide technical analysis of drill and blast activities with the aim of improving
• optimization.
• Prepare weekly and monthly Drilling and Blasting reports for EOM reporting to Mining Engineers
• for reconciliation
• Ensure that QA/QC sheets are being done and recorded prior to the blasting activities.
• Provide the Mining Manager with advice/ initiatives that seek to reduce costs in drilling and
• blasting activities.
• Ensure deployment of drilling rigs to the correct working locations to achieve optimal broken
• stocks for the load and haul operations.
• Manage consummables (Hammers, Bits, rods, etc) and control stocks in conjunction with Sandvik
• VMI.
• Ensure that standby for RDT is "Zero" and Delays related to RDT change out are minimized to the
• World Industry standards.
• ensure that they are correct and to the standard.
• In conjunction with Maintenance coordinate Drilling Rigs services, maintenance and fuelling to
• ensure that equipment is in good working condition.
• Liaise with the Explosives Contractor Blasting Engineer, Production Engineer and Production
• Geologist to ensure that blast movements are optimal to minimise ore loss and dilution.
• Ensure that Drilling and Blasting operation is carried out in accordance to plan, procedure and
• that shared responsibilities with the Explosives Company are complied with
• Any other duties that may be assigned to fulfill the overall business objective
• Ensuring blasting operations are carried out as per Regulations and mine procedures
• Ensuring that employees have been trained and are competent for the tasks, they are performing

Qualification requirements
• Secondary School Vocational Training. Mining Engineering degree highly regarded.
• Having a valid blasting certificate as per Tanzania regulations and or act(s).
• Recognized Drill and Blast Certificate.
• Experience and competencies needed
• Minimum of 15 years in large open pit hard rock mining with at least 5 years recent experience in
• drilling industry.
• Experience and knowledge on DTH and RC Drilling operations; Drilling planning Drill Rigs selection
• and performance
• Experience in coordinating and managing a sizable drill fleet in tough working conditions
• Experience as a Drill & Blast trainer in an Open Cast environment.
• A tertiary qualification in related field is highly desirable


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 192

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Applicants are invited to submit their CV's/Resume's online
Rename your CV in this format CV - YOUR FULL NAME Indicating the role title "Drill and Blast Supervisor " in the subject of your email Send your application via e-mail to: nmrecruitment@barrick.com 

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