Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Cameron Parsons

Teneriffe

Summary

A hardworking, proactive and motivated Mining Engineer with technical experience in open cut coal. Leads a safe and inclusive work culture, while being committed to collaboratively achieve positive outcomes. Displays reliability, competency and innovation in delivering efficient, productive and safe mining plans.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Mining Engineer

BHP / Whitehaven
Daunia Mine
09.2022 - Current

- Overseeing of all Mine Scheduling deliverables: Drill & Blast, Truck/Shovel, Haulage & Scheduling

- Scheduling over multiple horizon periods ranging from Week 0 to 2YB, including haulage

- All mine dig and dump designs, strip designs and reserving

- Optimisation of mine planning product to streamline deliverables

Specialist Mine Scheduling

BHP
Daunia Mine
10.2021 - 09.2022

Specialist Mine Scheduling

BHP
South Walker Creek Mine
08.2020 - 10.2021
  • Delivery of all drilling, loading and initiation designs for nonelectric and electronic blasting to meet stakeholder requirements, including production, cast, through-seam, and strata blasting
  • Creation of an ‘as-blasted’ surface, enabling the mine planning team to attain simple visibility into blast horizons and limits
  • EOM reconciliation and weekly to quarterly contractual forecasting
  • Implementation of drill and blast training module and facilitation into updating of site playbooks

Graduate Mining Engineer

BHP
Caval Ridge
02.2020 - 08.2020
  • Produce drill and blast designs that achieve a desired and favourable result for key stakeholders, specifically - coal protection, cast maximisation and quality fragmentation
  • Loading and initiation designs for electronic production and through-seam blasting
  • Accountable for producing the monthly blasted inventory presentation to coincide with SRF, providing visible information to stakeholders where there is potential equipment production downtime

Graduate Mining Engineer

BHP
South Walker Creek
02.2019 - 02.2020
  • Responsible for both coal and prestrip dig and dump designs for a 5 excavator and 22 truck fleet, maximising coal recovery, waste removal, and dump void space with consideration to final rehab profile
  • Strip shell designs
  • Reserving strip and dig designs to allow for accurate quantities to be reflected in the schedule
  • Ad hoc scheduling and haulage duties to deliver a week +1 mine plan
  • Improvement upon a production tracking document to enable stakeholders to understand how current performance is tracking against SRF

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Mining & Civil

University of Wollongong
11.2018

Skills

  • Open Cut mine site planning and design
  • Deswik
  • Vulcan
  • BlastLogic
  • Viewshot
  • Shotplus
  • Minestar
  • Microsoft Office
  • Spry
  • Deswik Scheduler
  • ArcGIS
  • Data management
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Technical translation
  • Risk identification
  • Risk mitigation
  • Teamwork
  • Collaborative decision making

Certification

QLD Unrestricted Driver’s License, Active

Timeline

Senior Mining Engineer

BHP / Whitehaven
09.2022 - Current

Specialist Mine Scheduling

BHP
10.2021 - 09.2022

Specialist Mine Scheduling

BHP
08.2020 - 10.2021

Graduate Mining Engineer

BHP
02.2020 - 08.2020

Graduate Mining Engineer

BHP
02.2019 - 02.2020

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Mining & Civil

University of Wollongong
Cameron Parsons