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Mid Range Mine Engineer

Solidus Resources, LLC, Lovelock, NV, United States


Solidus Resources is a U.S.-based gold development company backed by Waterton Mining. The Spring Valley Gold Project is located in the prolific Humboldt Range, an area with approximately 60 million ounces of gold endowment within a 50-mile radius. The Spring Valley Project is a large-scale open pit gold heap leach operation, with a >10 year mine life and a production profile in excess of 300,000 oz annually. Using 300-ton class autonomous mining haul trucks and hydraulic shovels, the higher-grade ore will be crushed in a 13-Mst/a three-stage crushing facility with a ½” product size that is conveyed and placed on the heap leach pad with stackers, while the low-grade run‑of‑mine ore will be directly stacked using the mine truck fleet. The conventional heap leach pad is segregated into these two operating areas where it will be irrigated, with leach solutions collected and processed into dore bars through the ADR facility. Site infrastructure to support the operation such as haul roads, waste rock storage facilities, truck shops, water management, warehouses, offices, etc. also included in the project scope.

Position Overview
The Mid Range Mine Engineer is responsible for developing and delivering executable mine plans aligned with the Life of Mine (LoM) strategy and annual budgets. This role ensures optimal production, cost efficiency, and consistent ore feed to the leach facility for a large-scale open pit operation. The position plays a key role in advancing a digitally enabled, autonomous mining environment through data-driven planning, system integration, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Job Responsibilities

Develop and manage quarterly and annual mine plans aligned with LoM strategy

Prepare production forecasts, budgets, and reconciliations

Optimize mine sequencing, haulage, and waste dump design

Deliver stockpile, leach, and dump plans with supporting economic analysis

Design pit phases considering geotechnical, operational, and autonomous constraints

Support ore reserve estimation and annual plan reviews

Evaluate planning software, systems, and emerging technologies

Contribute to continuous improvement of planning methodologies

Ensure planning outputs integrate with fleet management and autonomous systems (AHS/ADS)

Support implementation of Short Interval Control (SIC) and data-driven workflows

Maintain accurate data flows to support operational execution and performance tracking

Partner with operations, maintenance, processing, and technical teams

Provide planning inputs for production, equipment, and infrastructure decisions

Communicate plans, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders up to GM level

Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and environmental standards (MSHA, Nevada)

Apply structured planning and governance methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2)

Produce technical reports, KPIs, and value tracking outputs

Qualifications

Degree in Mining Engineering or related discipline

5–7+ years of experience in open pit hard-rock mine planning

Strong experience with mine planning software (e.g., Vulcan, Deswik, Whittle, NPV Scheduler)

Proventrack recordin implementing planning systems and processes

Experience in autonomous or digitally enabled mining environments advantageous

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data management skills

Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities

Eligibility for PE registration

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