SENIOR PRODUCTION ENGINEER – Sandfire Motheo


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This position is responsible for providing leadership in production engineering support to mining execution.

Job Summary

  • Employer: Sandfire Motheo
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Location: Ghanzi, Botswana
  • Category: Mining
  • Closing Date: 2026-11-23

Key Responsibilities

  • Allocate production engineering support and maintain coverage across mining operations.
  • Lead contractor drill and blast QAQC audits and track actions from design to post-blast review.
  • Review blast designs for compliance with approved parameters and route approval to authorised personnel.
  • Analyse fragmentation, dilution, ore loss, dig rates and downstream impacts with relevant teams.
  • Lead production quantity reconciliation and technical verification of contractor submissions.
  • Monitor plan execution and coordinate engineering responses to operational constraints.
  • Set standards for engineering field inspections, as-built checks and design compliance.
  • Lead assigned mining infrastructure projects with scope, risk, cost and schedule controls.
  • Verify GET and foreign material risk controls are embedded in dig plans and handovers.
  • Coordinate production improvement trials with the optimisation and operations teams.
  • Coach Production Engineers and graduates; review their work before release.
  • Maintain technical records and escalate material safety, production and cost deviations.

Requirements

  • Degree in Mining Engineering or equivalent recognised qualification.
  • ERB registration appropriate to the role. Valid Class B driver’s licence.
  • Hold the relevant Botswana blasting licence where duties require it; technical review alone does not confer firing or approval authority .
  • At least 8 years in open pit mining engineering, including 3 years in production engineering leadership and drill and blast performance management.

How to Apply

Email: [email protected]
Apply online: sandfiremotheo.co.bw
Closing Date: 23 November 2026
Apply online: sandfiremotheo.co.bw

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