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Senior Mining Engineer

Sky Horizon Mining Company
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Position Title: Senior Mining Engineer

2024-06-20    Kabul     Full Time     620

Job Location: Kabul
Nationality: Afghan
Category: Other
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: 20,000 – 25,000 AFN / Month (plus allowances as per company policy)
Vacancy Number: 002/2024
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Kabul + Travel
Organization: Sky Horizon Mining Company
Years of Experience: 5-7 Years
Contract Duration: 1 Year, Extendable (3 months’ probation)
Gender: Male
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mining engineering, Mineral or Quarry Engineering, Minerals Surveying or relevant field
Close date: 2024-06-20

About Sky Horizon Mining Company:

Sky Horizon is a registered minerals resource company that is established with an ambition to
conduct professional mining and minerals business in Afghanistan. The company has invested in
several talc mines in Afghanistan. Considering our team expertise, worldwide existence and
linkages as well as the knowledge about the national and international market demand and supply
for various minerals, we believe that Sky Horizon is a reliable and successful supplier of talc, and
other industrial minerals from Afghanistan.
Our professional team has practical experience of delivering talc in bulk quantity to various
destinations such as Turkey, Russia, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan.

Job Descriptions:

The Mining Engineer will contribute to one of its principal objectives, which is to ensure proper
technical information is provided to the senior management of the company, customers and
stakeholders. The candidate will be involved in the development of technical proposals, identifying
customer needs and requirements and ensure the company provides best technical service to its
customers and stakeholders.
This is a long-term/ permanent hire opportunity. The Mining Engineer will report to the technical
team led of the company.
Objective:
Direct and lead the mining team with a primary focus on plan, design, organize and supervise the
development of mines, mine facilities, systems and equipment; and prepare and supervise the
extraction of minerals and ores from underground or surface mines.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to the following:
• Conduct preliminary surveys and studies of mineral deposits to assess the economic and
environmental feasibility of potential mining operations.
• Determine the appropriate means of safely and efficiently mining deposits.
• Determine and advise on appropriate drilling and blasting methods for mining,
construction or demolition.
• Design shafts, ventilation systems, mine services, haulage systems and supporting
structures.
• Design, develop and implement computer applications such as for mine design, mine
modelling, mapping or for monitoring mine conditions.
• Plan and design or select mining equipment and machinery and mineral treatment
machinery and equipment in collaboration with technical team.
• Plan, organize and supervise the development of mines and mine structures and the
operation and maintenance of mines.
• Prepare operations and project estimates, schedules and reports.
• Implement and coordinate mine safety programs.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of technicians, technologists, survey personnel, and
other engineers and scientists.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mining engineering, Mineral or Quarry engineering,
minerals surveying or relevant field.
• 5-7 years working experience in the mining industry with public and/or private sector.
• Knowledge of ore production and processing technologies, organization of design
works, budgeting procedure, methods of feasibility study of field development
efficiency.
• Knowledge of mining optimization and strategic planning software, Surpac or
MineSched or Micromine or DataMine.
• Good written and spoken English is essential, good Pashto and Dari.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated skill on teamwork and results oriented.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm in working for the project’s purpose and vision.
• Ability to formulate strategies and policies and create new approaches.
• Undertake project-related tasks as mandated in project agreement and as required by
governmental authorities i.e Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, Environmental
Protection Agency, Ministry of Labor or any other related entity.
• Able to undertake huge amount of work and be able to work under tight deadlines.

Additional Qualification Preferred:
• Experienced user of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power point, MS Project),
Primavera etc.
• Knowledge and mastery of AutoCAD and specialized designing software,
NawisWorks
 

Submission Guidelines:

Interested and qualified candidates may submit their application including a letter of interest to the
mentioned below email address before closing date.
Please clearly mention the position title and vacancy number in the subject line of your email.

Submission Email: info@skyhorizon.org and copy to sales@skyhorizon.org
 

Submission Email:

info@skyhorizon.org and copy to sales@skyhorizon.org

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