Geotechnical Officer
2025-05-07T15:08:59+00:00
Trinity Metals
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Nyakabingo
Kigali
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Rwanda
Mining
Science & Engineering
2025-05-22T17:00:00+00:00
Rwanda
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Job Brief: Under the guidance of the Group Geotechnical Engineer and reporting to the Mine Mineral Resources Manager, the Geotechnical Officer takes a leading role in managing ground-related risks and ensuring the stability of the mine. Outputs from this role will assist in achieving budget production, development, and meeting quality standards, including cost, environment, and safety KPIs.
Responsibilities: The Geotechnical Officer has the following responsibilities:
- Prioritize safety and actively contribute to enhancing the organization’s safety culture.
- Plan and oversee site investigations, including drilling, sampling, and testing.
- Provide daily geotechnical support to the mine site, including data collection, analysis, and operational recommendations to mitigate risks.
- Conduct regular inspections of underground workings, identify hazards, abnormal conditions, and departures from planned layout, and prepare reports with appropriate recommendations to manage risks.
- Participate in planning activities and maintain an effective monitoring, recording, and reporting system, which will ensure that relevant information is provided timely to assist in planning and operating functions cost-effectively.
- Collaborate with the geology section to ensure timely and efficient geological and geotechnical data sharing and integration.
- Liaise with relevant personnel from other departments on geotechnical engineering issues
- Enforce compliance to all geotechnical related standards including underground support systems
- Install, collect and process data from ground movement monitoring instruments/stations to predict potential failures and/or collapses to ensure overall mine stability
- Create geological and geotechnical models to understand the ground conditions and predict behavior.
- Identify and stop unsafe work practices/areas
- Participate in the review of procedures and systems employed by the mine to reduce or eliminate rock fall hazards.
- Identify potential rock-related hazards, carry out risk assessment and provide recommendations.
- Participate in fall of ground incident investigations and write informative reports.
- Ensure timely closure of remedial action plans stemming from inspections, incidents, and audits.
- Provide on-the-job training and coaching to subordinates and mining personnel on geotechnical issues
- Keeping abreast of the latest developments in geotechnical engineering and ground control.
- Meticulously document all observations, measurements, reports and maintain comprehensive records for the geotechnical section
- Oversee and review the work of geotechnical observers.
- Carry out any other duties as assigned by management
- Comply with all company policies and procedures
1. Job Requirements: The Geotechnical Officer should have the following qualifications, experience and skill.
1.1 Qualifications
- Diploma/Degree in Geology/Mining/Geotechnical Engineering.
- Professional certification in strata control is an added advantage.
1.2 Experience
- Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Mining Geology or Rock Engineering in an underground mining environment.
1.3 Skills
- Geotechnical knowledge, mining and geotechnical risk management skills
- Geotechnical data gathering and processing.
- Knowledge of geotechnical modelling software (Roscience Suite – (RS2, Dips), Plaxis) is highly beneficial
- Processing of data from geotechnical monitoring instruments
- Knowledge and ability to use ground monitoring systems and equipment.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good technical report writing and presentation skills
- Supervisory skills and ability to communicate with peers, subordinates and superiors
- Proven safety leadership record
Prioritize safety and actively contribute to enhancing the organization’s safety culture. Plan and oversee site investigations, including drilling, sampling, and testing. Provide daily geotechnical support to the mine site, including data collection, analysis, and operational recommendations to mitigate risks. Conduct regular inspections of underground workings, identify hazards, abnormal conditions, and departures from planned layout, and prepare reports with appropriate recommendations to manage risks. Participate in planning activities and maintain an effective monitoring, recording, and reporting system, which will ensure that relevant information is provided timely to assist in planning and operating functions cost-effectively. Collaborate with the geology section to ensure timely and efficient geological and geotechnical data sharing and integration. Liaise with relevant personnel from other departments on geotechnical engineering issues Enforce compliance to all geotechnical related standards including underground support systems Install, collect and process data from ground movement monitoring instruments/stations to predict potential failures and/or collapses to ensure overall mine stability Create geological and geotechnical models to understand the ground conditions and predict behavior. Identify and stop unsafe work practices/areas Participate in the review of procedures and systems employed by the mine to reduce or eliminate rock fall hazards. Identify potential rock-related hazards, carry out risk assessment and provide recommendations. Participate in fall of ground incident investigations and write informative reports. Ensure timely closure of remedial action plans stemming from inspections, incidents, and audits. Provide on-the-job training and coaching to subordinates and mining personnel on geotechnical issues Keeping abreast of the latest developments in geotechnical engineering and ground control. Meticulously document all observations, measurements, reports and maintain comprehensive records for the geotechnical section Oversee and review the work of geotechnical observers. Carry out any other duties as assigned by management Comply with all company policies and procedures
Geotechnical knowledge, mining and geotechnical risk management skills Geotechnical data gathering and processing. Knowledge of geotechnical modelling software (Roscience Suite – (RS2, Dips), Plaxis) is highly beneficial Processing of data from geotechnical monitoring instruments Knowledge and ability to use ground monitoring systems and equipment. Good verbal and written communication skills Good technical report writing and presentation skills Supervisory skills and ability to communicate with peers, subordinates and superiors Proven safety leadership record
Diploma/Degree in Geology/Mining/Geotechnical Engineering. Professional certification in strata control is an added advantage. 1.2 Experience Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Mining Geology or Rock Engineering in an underground mining environment.
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Vacancy title:
2 Geotechnical Officer
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Mining, Category: Science & Engineering]
Jobs at:
Trinity Metals
Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, May 22 2025
Duty Station:
Nyakabingo | Kigali | Rwanda
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 7 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Job Brief: Under the guidance of the Group Geotechnical Engineer and reporting to the Mine Mineral Resources Manager, the Geotechnical Officer takes a leading role in managing ground-related risks and ensuring the stability of the mine. Outputs from this role will assist in achieving budget production, development, and meeting quality standards, including cost, environment, and safety KPIs.
Responsibilities: The Geotechnical Officer has the following responsibilities:
- Prioritize safety and actively contribute to enhancing the organization’s safety culture.
- Plan and oversee site investigations, including drilling, sampling, and testing.
- Provide daily geotechnical support to the mine site, including data collection, analysis, and operational recommendations to mitigate risks.
- Conduct regular inspections of underground workings, identify hazards, abnormal conditions, and departures from planned layout, and prepare reports with appropriate recommendations to manage risks.
- Participate in planning activities and maintain an effective monitoring, recording, and reporting system, which will ensure that relevant information is provided timely to assist in planning and operating functions cost-effectively.
- Collaborate with the geology section to ensure timely and efficient geological and geotechnical data sharing and integration.
- Liaise with relevant personnel from other departments on geotechnical engineering issues
- Enforce compliance to all geotechnical related standards including underground support systems
- Install, collect and process data from ground movement monitoring instruments/stations to predict potential failures and/or collapses to ensure overall mine stability
- Create geological and geotechnical models to understand the ground conditions and predict behavior.
- Identify and stop unsafe work practices/areas
- Participate in the review of procedures and systems employed by the mine to reduce or eliminate rock fall hazards.
- Identify potential rock-related hazards, carry out risk assessment and provide recommendations.
- Participate in fall of ground incident investigations and write informative reports.
- Ensure timely closure of remedial action plans stemming from inspections, incidents, and audits.
- Provide on-the-job training and coaching to subordinates and mining personnel on geotechnical issues
- Keeping abreast of the latest developments in geotechnical engineering and ground control.
- Meticulously document all observations, measurements, reports and maintain comprehensive records for the geotechnical section
- Oversee and review the work of geotechnical observers.
- Carry out any other duties as assigned by management
- Comply with all company policies and procedures
1. Job Requirements: The Geotechnical Officer should have the following qualifications, experience and skill.
1.1 Qualifications
- Diploma/Degree in Geology/Mining/Geotechnical Engineering.
- Professional certification in strata control is an added advantage.
1.2 Experience
- Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Mining Geology or Rock Engineering in an underground mining environment.
1.3 Skills
- Geotechnical knowledge, mining and geotechnical risk management skills
- Geotechnical data gathering and processing.
- Knowledge of geotechnical modelling software (Roscience Suite – (RS2, Dips), Plaxis) is highly beneficial
- Processing of data from geotechnical monitoring instruments
- Knowledge and ability to use ground monitoring systems and equipment.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good technical report writing and presentation skills
- Supervisory skills and ability to communicate with peers, subordinates and superiors
- Proven safety leadership record
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: associate degree
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