Senior Production Engineer

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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