Kishore Kumar
Belmont,WA
Summary
Underground Mining Engineer with completed underground time, experience in drill and blast engineering, and proficiency in Deswik. Passed the Western Australian Underground Ventilation Officer statutory examination and commencing a Ventilation Engineer role. Safety-focused, operationally experienced, and familiar with FIFO underground mining environments in Western Australia.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Ventilation Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti
12.2025 - Current
- Passed the Western Australian Underground Ventilation Officer statutory examination.
- Completed underground time within Western Australian underground mining operations.
- Completed WHS risk management modules BSBWHS 414/411 and BSBWHS 513, with practical understanding of hazard identification, risk assessment, and statutory compliance.
- Commencing a Ventilation Engineer role with foundational exposure to underground ventilation systems and controls.
- Developing skills in VentSim for ventilation modelling.
Production Mining Enginner (Graduate to Pro-Engg)
AngloGold Ashanti
06.2023 - 11.2025
- Supported underground production activities with a strong focus on drill and blast execution, stope performance, and short-term planning.
- Completed formal Deswik training and applied Deswik for drill plan and charge plan review, production scheduling, and reporting.
- Designed drill and charge plans with site blasting standards.
- Passed site authorisation for blast tagging and assisted in tagging production shots totalling over 10,000 tonnes, in accordance with site safety procedures.
- Conducted stope reconciliation, analysing planned versus actual tonnes, dilution, and recovery to support continuous improvement.
- Assisted with post-blast inspections and fragmentation assessments to improve blasting performance.
- Prepared and reviewed remote bogging plans to support safe and efficient ore extraction.
- Developed and updated weekly drill movement plans in coordination with operations and drilling contractors.
- Assisted with Rhino planning activities to support short-term underground mine planning.
- Prepared daily and weekly production reports,
Blast Crew Member
High Grade Personnel
11.2022 - 04.2023
- Assisted in setting up more than 50 blasts in Open pit
- Ensured that hole was filled with right explosive depending on moisture content
- Handled both non-electric and electronic detonators
- Conducted leak test while using electronic detonator
- Have completed product knowledge and best practice course from ORICA
Trade Assistant & Sentry,
BHP & NSR
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Assisted supervisor with various daily tasks, which improved productivity and resulted in better efficiency
- Systematically organizing tasks and meeting the tight deadlines and schedule.
- Organized materials and tools to maintain clean and neat work areas.
Purchase and Inward QC Engineer
Severn Glocon India Pty Ltd
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Devised and implemented best-quality practices and processes for product development
- Handled both NDT (Nondestructive testing) and microstructure testing
- Procurement and purchasing of raw material
- Vendor management and system control for over 20 vendors
- Quality control and quality assurance on both raw and machined material
Graduate Engineer
TVS
05.2018 - 06.2019
- Assisted senior engineers and management with clerical duties to keep the department functioning and workflows running smoothly
- Optimized manufacturing processes to improve and reduced overall production costs by 5%
- Assisted with the coordination of new equipment installation and implementation 2 universal turning machines from Germany for improved production with precision
- Design and development of an electromagnetic engine
- Prototype fabrication and testing of the electromagnetic engine that runs with minimum power and the battery last for 8 days.
Design Team Leader
Blue Enigma - MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College
04.2017 - 04.2018
- Manufacturing of a Hybrid vehicle (petrol and electric power)
- Won 33rd and 11th place internationally for Hybrid vehicle challenge (for 2 consecutive years)
- Won 3rd place for best Hybrid vehicle transmission design among 100 teams in India
Education
Masters of Professional Engineering - Mining Engineering
Curtin University
Kalgoorlie, WA06.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College
Tamil Nadu04.2019
Skills
- Deswik CAD, Deswik UGDB
- Ventsim, Abaqus
- Microsoft office package(office,Excel,power-point)
- Engineering Design
- Team Collaboration
- Tagging both Orica and Dyno electronic dets
Accomplishments
Optimising Blast Parameters Using Fragmentation Analysis-August 2023-On going
- Conducted a technical study on stope fragmentation across different ore bodies to optimise drill and blast parameters.
- Analysed fragmentation outcomes using finite element–based blasting software developed by Dyno, assessing the influence of burden and spacing on fragmentation performance.
- Determined optimal burden and spacing configurations for specific areas to improve fragmentation efficiency, blast performance, and downstream operational outcomes.
Analysis of Stability of Sill pillars using numerical Modeling (Abaqus)-July2022-July 2023
- The location from which the sill pillars have to be mined so that the mine stability is ensures found
- In order to ensure stability, the backfill material with different materials or compositions of material is tested using UTM and inputted in the data, so that the factor of safety increases from 1 to 3
Low-cost wireless detonator design model-Oct 2022
- The wireless detonator is designed with Arduino's
- The cost of manufacturing one detonator would be 30 dollars which is 80 percentagelesser than the cost of wires detonators in the market
- A feedback system is also propose
Certification
- Underground Vent officer Exam
- Western Australian Manual C-Class Licence
- DGSC card(Dangerous goods security card)
- Working Safely at Heights
- First aid
- Fire extinguisher
Timeline
Ventilation Engineer
AngloGold Ashanti
12.2025 - Current
Production Mining Enginner (Graduate to Pro-Engg)
AngloGold Ashanti
06.2023 - 11.2025
Blast Crew Member
High Grade Personnel
11.2022 - 04.2023
Trade Assistant & Sentry,
BHP & NSR
02.2022 - 01.2023
Purchase and Inward QC Engineer
Severn Glocon India Pty Ltd
04.2019 - 12.2020
Graduate Engineer
TVS
05.2018 - 06.2019
Design Team Leader
Blue Enigma - MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College
04.2017 - 04.2018
Masters of Professional Engineering - Mining Engineering
Curtin University
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College
LINKEDIN PROFILE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishore-kumar-a83a43127
REFERENCE
- Professional reference available upon request