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BOGANA SABADI

Blackwater,Australia

Summary

Mining Engineer with 15+ years of experience in the mining & metals industry. Skilled in Drill and Blast Engineering and Mine Planning.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Drill and Blast Engineer

Coronado Global Resources Inc.
Curragh Coal Mine - Queensland, Australia
01.2022 - Current
  • Currently, lead and manage a team of Drill and Blast Engineers under the Technical Services Department at Curragh Open Cut Mine Complex
  • The drill and blast engineering team consists of 5x drill and blast engineers and a graduate mining engineer
  • Provide direction to the mine planning process for drill and blast and ensure all drill and blast design work from concept stage, planning to execution are managed within the site SHMS requirements and QLD coal mine regulations
  • Work alongside with the drill and blast execution teams with managing drilling and blasting contractors to ensuring drill and blast activities are safely and effectively executed
  • Manage and review of all blast designs from conventional techniques for stand up and cast blasting, through-seam blasting and multi-deck blasting for vibration control to all mine sensitive receptors
  • Manage and review of all design work to maintain compliance to blast environmentals to sensitive infrastructures and the mining neighborhood and community
  • Sensitive infrastructures include Electrical power lines, Power poles, substations, levee banks, sewerage treatment plant, water pipelines, mining neighborhood and site’s mining camp
  • Involved with site SHMS documentation with compiling and updating Curragh Mine’s Standard Process documents for drill and blast
  • This includes newly developed work instructions to design process documents for drill and blast design and planning
  • Involved in risk management for drill and blast related activities from blast environmentals i.e
  • Blasting in close proximity to mine equipment or any sensitive mining infrastructure
  • Lead and assist with drill and blast incident investigations involving misfires or any non-compliance to blast environmentals and provide solutions and recommendations for improvements to blast design and operational execution processes
  • Manage the reporting and reconciliation of plan vs actual data for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly drill and blast performance against monthly and yearly budget plans
  • Lead continuous improvement projects for drill and blast and reconcile and report all project data to the Technical Services Management team.

Drill and Blast Specialist

Sojitz Blue Limited
Gregory Coal Mine - Central Queensland, Australia
08.2019 - 12.2021
  • Managed all drill and blast planning and design work for Gregory Mine
  • Set up all design standards and processes for drill and blast production on site
  • Continuous Risk Management on all drill and blast activities from conventional blasting techniques to Novel techniques applied on site
  • Generated plans incorporating high risk management processes around old underground workings and auger mining zones
  • Managed Drilling and Explosive contractor with all drill and blast planning
  • Provide advice to short term planning on design limitations and ensure drill and blast activities and interactions are communicated for mine planning and operational execution
  • Produce all reporting for drilling and blasting from daily, weekly and monthly data
  • Also generate reporting for costs for drilling and blasting activities
  • This includes cost reconciliation with contractors and blast product usage.

Medium Term Planning Engineer

Peabody Energy
Moorvale Coal Mine - Queensland, Australia
12.2018 - 08.2019
  • Generate Short Range Forecast Plans for Moorvale site providing monthly schedules that meet Budget requirements for the business
  • Forecast plans provide direction to short term planning to drive mine production to meeting budget targets set and agreed by the business
  • Generate Coal and Waste reserving for medium term scheduling
  • Reserving includes designing economic mining pit shells that meet geotechnical constraints and align with budget waste to coal stripping ratios
  • This reserving included incorporating optimized ramping systems and dump options to meet budget goals for waste and coal movement
  • Significant use of SPRY to generate SRF schedules and reports for the business
  • With Time Usage models incorporated in SPRY, ensure maintenance planning department is aligned with budget expectations and flag any threats to plan if major changes are made to the time usage model
  • Continuous generation of haulage planning to support short term planning and mine production for optimized waste movements based on historical data digger performance
  • Coordinate rehabilitation designs and planning around plan of operations set out for the financial year ensuring areas set out for rehabilitation are on track and that monthly schedules generated incorporates mine rehabilitation activities
  • Also mentored and provided advice to short term planning engineers where required with truck and shovel and drill and blast engineering.

Drill and Blast Engineer

Peabody Energy
Coppabella Coal Mine Queensland, Australia
05.2015 - 11.2018
  • Manage the daily drill and blast activities with producing drill design and blast loading plans
  • Ensure drill and blast activities are executed safely and efficiently
  • This includes generating signoffs and checklists for drill designs, loading designs and tie up initiation designs to ensure drill and blast implementation is within compliance of site procedure and safety standards
  • Work with production engineers to generate 2 to 4 weekly drill and blast plans and ensure short term plan aligns with Medium-Term Short-Range Forecasts
  • Manage explosive product selection to ground conditions as well as ensuring correct Blast design and powder factor is applied to appropriate rock strength and material type
  • Reconciliation of weekly to monthly drill and blast production data and ensure contractor invoice claims are reconciled with site data captured
  • Capture and produce analytical reports for continuous drill and blast improvement projects
  • Generate post blast summary reports and reconcile blast inventory along with blast actuals and explosive consumables for each blasting activity by comparing design vs
  • Actual
  • Manage IE/HE stock levels in the magazine are appropriate for monthly blasting requirements
  • Generate purchase Orders for IE/HE and Ammonium Nitrate and Emulsion bulk product for monthly blasting activities
  • Compile root-cause analysis and investigations for hard dig areas, fume events and geotechnical failure areas impacted by drill and blast activities.

Blasting Engineer

Orica Australia
Emerald - Central Queensland Coal Mines, Australia
03.2012 - 04.2015
  • Provide Technical Support to customer sites on blast design to on-bench field support
  • Extensive use of blast modelling software using Blast Design Assistant (BDA) to assist customer sites with Blast modelling for cast optimization and coal protection
  • Provide Technical solutions and ground support to Orica blast operations and customer blast crews with guidance on blast loading and initiation plans
  • Incident investigations and report compiling for misfire events, post blast fume events, flyrock events and blast vibration and air pressure measurements for Customer sites in the Central Queensland Region
  • Completed Stratablast work with Technical Services and Operations Team at Ensham open cut coal mine
  • Compiled audits on drill and blast operations, practices and procedures internally and externally for Orica Customers in Australia and Papua New Guinea
  • Competent IKON Classic / IKON II Electronic Blasting Systems user
  • Supported IKON training internally and externally with Orica customer sites.

Mining Engineer - Drill and Blast

Newcrest Mining Limited
Open Pit Operations - Hard Rock
03.2011 - 02.2012
  • Drill and Blast Planning and Designing
  • Risk Management of drill and blast activities in hot geothermal mine environment
  • Driving continuous improvement projects to optimize broken muck production and improve wall stability
  • Coordinate Drill and Blast Trials for Wall stability using pre-splitting techniques
  • Standardized selected pre-splitting trial design for wall stability
  • Generate blast-masters for drill blast planning to support transition of inclined bench mining to flat bench mining
  • Set-up and automated Drill and Blast End of Month Reporting Template
  • Mentored Graduate Mine Engineers in their rotation to Drill and blast engineering section.

Graduate Mining Engineer

Newcrest Mining Limited
Open Pit Operations - Hard Rock
12.2008 - 03.2011
  • Graduate rotation into respective mining engineering disciplines in Technical Services and Production departmental sections
  • Medium Term Planning, Short Term Planning, Drill and Blast Engineering
  • Mine Dispatch Operations, Blast Crew, Haul Truck Operations.

Computer Software Platforms

  • Precision SPRY and Gantt Scheduler
  • Maptek Blast Logic
  • Maptek Vulcan CAD
  • Datamine Datablast
  • Minesight 3D CAD
  • DataVis - DBS
  • Shotplus, Blast Design Assistant (BDA), JKSim-Blast, DataNet View Shot
  • Hexagon Mine Ops Leica Systems

Education Licenses

  • Bachelor-Mining Engineering (B.Eng.), Mining, University of Technology, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, 2005 - 2008
  • Australian Centre for Geomechanics - Blasting for Stable Slopes, Perth, WA
  • S1, S2, S3 - RII 30115 - Supervisor Training
  • G2 - RIIRIS402E - Carrying out the risk Management Process
  • TAE40110 Part Cert IV Enterprise Trainer Assessor
  • IKON - Orica EBS Certificate of Attainment
  • Valid Australian QLD Driver's License

Personal Information

Visa Status: Permanent Australian Resident - Eligible to work in Australia.

References

Will provide upon request.

Timeline

Senior Drill and Blast Engineer

Coronado Global Resources Inc.
01.2022 - Current

Drill and Blast Specialist

Sojitz Blue Limited
08.2019 - 12.2021

Medium Term Planning Engineer

Peabody Energy
12.2018 - 08.2019

Drill and Blast Engineer

Peabody Energy
05.2015 - 11.2018

Blasting Engineer

Orica Australia
03.2012 - 04.2015

Mining Engineer - Drill and Blast

Newcrest Mining Limited
03.2011 - 02.2012

Graduate Mining Engineer

Newcrest Mining Limited
12.2008 - 03.2011
BOGANA SABADI