# Senior Production Engineer

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

- **Id**: 3948797
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sandfire-senior-production-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**: 2026-11-08T17:18:38Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:18:38Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1974
- **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

## 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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