Yılmaden Holding, established in 2014, is the metals and mining division of Yıldırım Group of Companies, a fast-growing industrial conglomerate based in Istanbul, Turkey. At Yılmaden, we work together across all business units located in 8 different countries with one objective that is extracting the valuable minerals such as chromite from the ground and turn it into ferroalloys, chrome metals and chemicals.

We are looking for an Underground Mine Planning Manager to be assigned at our headquarters in  Maslak, Istanbul.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering
• Fluent in English
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the mining industry, experience with underground mine planning
• Willing and able to travel and work in remote locations for extended times
• Have experience in mine design, project optimization, equipment selection, production scheduling, and Opex and Capex estimation, as well as project management
• Being active user of 3D mining softwares, preferably Datamine Studio
• Having rock mechanics knowledge and/or understanding
• Both technical expertise and high-level acumen is required
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Cross discipline and cross-cultural communication and team player skills are highly desirable

Requirements:

• Leading the junior/senior planning engineers both at mine sites located in Turkey, abroad and HQ
• Preparing underground mine designs and long-term scheduling
• Reporting, analyzing and evaluating production plans and actual production data
• Managing mine planning and rock mechanics activities
• Responsible for mine planning & scheduling, planning required mining capex
• Monitoring and tracking unit operation cost
• Supervising mining technical teams at mine sites and collaboratively work with mine managers
• Participating to due diligence process of new mine acquisitions
• Following and analyzing monthly/yearly production reports
• Following production parameters keeping and ensuring those parameters to be at desired level
• Monitoring and tracking KPIs