# Senior Mining Optimisation Engineer

This position is responsible for leading mining productivity and cost improvement using validated operational data and practical field analysis. Support effective Wenco adoption and sustained performance improvement across the mining value chain. Job Summary Employer: Sandfire Motheo Job Type: Full-time Location: Ghanzi, Botswana Category: Mining Closing Date: 2026-11-23 Key Responsibilities Develop, implement and monitor operational and business improvement initiatives Establish validated baselines for equipment availability, utilisation, productivity and unit cost. Analyse cycle times, payload, queues, shift changes and operating delays by pit and fleet. Maintain an improvement register with business cases, owners, milestones and benefits. Support Wenco configuration, operational readiness, testing and data governance with mining contractor and IT. Verify dispatch codes, reporting definitions and reconciliation between data sources. Evaluate fleet balance, haul routes, dispatch practices and production constraints. Design controlled operational trials and assess safety, cost and production effects. Support fragmentation, diggability and haulage optimisation with p

- **Id**: 3948798
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sandfire-senior-mining-optimisation-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Botswana
- **Countries**: BW
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T17:18:07Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:18:07Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1964
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Precious Metals, Mining

## Company

- **Id**: 3886615
- **Name**: Sandfire
- **Domain**: sandfire.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sandfire-com-au>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **Power BI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Botswana** — Iso: BW; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T00:19:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: seen:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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