Result oriented Geotechnical Engineer with an extensive experience providing guidance and planning to the operational safety of personnel and equipment within a mine. Excellent understanding of monitoring instrumentation and its analysis.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Shift Geotechnical Engineer
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
07.2021 - Current
Conducting Geotechnical Hazard inspections and reporting of fill slopes within high risk mining areas and providing daily updates as required.
Conduct inspections on waste dumps and provide remediation plans for execution as needed.
Enforcing TARPs and rainfall triggers at high risk areas within the pit.
Conducting wall compliance checks through final wall and post blast inspections.
Providing advice to the production team on improvements on wall control trimming and blasting as needed for optimum wall performance.
Ensuring hard physical controls are in-place on the ground in the event of an active or potential developing Geotechnical Hazard event such as rockfalls and wall failures.
Collect and analyse sub surface monitoring data (inclinometer, OSP and VWP).
Collect and analyse surface monitoring data (radar, prisms and extensometer) and correlating with other instruments and reporting on the slope performance.
Assist in the coordination and assessment of the deployment of 6 slope monitoring radars (4 IBIS radars & 2 Ground Probe radars).
Creating new projects (wall folders), hazard maps (alarms) and masking out noisy areas on the both radar types.
Supervising prism installation and maintenance in the pit for 6 automated total stations (ATS) and over 1000 survey prisms.
Producing weekly and monthly Geotechnical monitoring reports.
Graduate Geotechnical Engineer
Porgera Joint Venture
10.2019 - 05.2020
Conduct daily inspections of the open pit to find geotechnical issues.
Carry out bi-weekly Geotechnical inspections of the dumps and stockpiles.
Liaise daily with Open Pit STP/Production engineers for daily/weekly plans.
Providing daily report of the open pit walls using the Monitoring Slope Radar.
Providing weekly report of the open pit geotechnical issues.
Carry out and supervise geotechnical projects and remediation works.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mining Engineering
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
04.2018
Skills
Geotechnical Analysis
Slope Stability Analysis
Rockfall Analysis
Rock Mechanics
Geotechnical Instrumentation
Risk Assessment
Communication Skills
Problem-Solving
Teamwork
Attention to detail
MineSight
Rocscience Software
Certification
B.Eng.in Mining Engineering
Ground Probe Training - 07/12/2021 - 24/12/2021
Rocscience Training - 30/05/2023 - 01/06/2023
Timeline
Shift Geotechnical Engineer
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
07.2021 - Current
Graduate Geotechnical Engineer
Porgera Joint Venture
10.2019 - 05.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Mining Engineering
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
B.Eng.in Mining Engineering
Ground Probe Training - 07/12/2021 - 24/12/2021
Rocscience Training - 30/05/2023 - 01/06/2023
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