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CANDIDATURE

Le dossier de candidature composé d’une lettre de motivation adressée au Directeur des Ressources Humaines de la SOMISY S.A, d’un CV et des copies de la carte d’identité/NINA, des diplômes, attestations et certificats, doit être envoyé courriel à : [email protected] ou déposé à la barrière principale du site avec la mention en objet « Candidature au poste d’Ingénieur Senior de forage et de dynamitage » au plus tard le

2 janvier, 2026 à 17h00.

NB :

1. Le CV doit indiquer trois (03) personnes de référence professionnelle avec leurs numéros de téléphone et leurs adresses Emails ;

2. Les dossiers déposés ne seront pas retournés et seuls les candidats présélectionnés seront contactés pour des tests et interviews.

JOB OBJECTIVE

The Senior Drill and Blast Engineer is responsible for the safe, efficient, and cost-effective operational control of drill and blast activities in accordance with legal requirements and company objectives.

This role provides technical excellence and operational direction to the drill and blast team, ensuring resources, capacity, and capability are aligned to work plans.

The engineer will lead the development, optimization, and implementation of drill and blast strategies, including planning, execution, performance monitoring, and compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.

The position requires collaboration across departments to achieve production goals, minimize costs, and ensure sustainable mining practices.

This role also serves as a development pathway for future promotion to Drill and Blast Superintendent, with responsibility for sustaining value and building technical excellence across the discipline.

Responsibilities:

Demonstrate absolute commitment and leadership in providing a safe and healthy working environment:

• Support the Safety Management System and Environmental Management System (14001) ensuring a safety-first work culture, applying site safety standards, procedures and policies

• Participate in site safety initiatives and supporting the agreed behaviors in the team

• Participate in the identification and assessment of departmental environmental aspects and assessment

• Ensure that all environmental nonconformities and incidents are reported within the timeframe.

• Ensure compliance to Mali statutory requirements, licenses conditions, and Resolute environmental standards, policies, procedures and guidelines

• Ensure adequate proactive monitoring to maintain a safe work environment

• Instill a culture of recognizing hazards and minimizing risk and consequential harm to employees

• Drive and monitor housekeeping standards to maintain a safe and healthy working environment

• Support and investigate when work is stopped due to an unsafe act or condition, ensuring actions to mitigate the risk are implemented

•Take a proactive risk management approach to departmental tasks, i.e., recognize, analyze, respond to ensure risks are at an acceptable level; ensuring that prior to work commencing an effective risk assessment and controls are in place and understood

• Ensure standard work procedures and safe systems of work are understood, enforcing compliance

• Ensure personnel are adequately trained to safely complete work requirements; verifying work instructions are clear

• Ensure safety/toolbox meetings are conducted at the appropriate frequency with a focus of continued improvement of the Health and Safety Management System and addressing concerns

• Ensure drill and blast activities are planned and executed with full integration of safety controls, including blast exclusion zones, misfire protocols, and vibration monitoring.

• Monitor and enforce safety compliance among drill and blast contractors, ensuring alignment with site standards and procedures.

• Participate in emergency response planning and drills related to explosives handling and blast incidents.

• Track and report safety KPIs specific to drill and blast operations, including incident rates, near misses, and audit findings.

Social license:

Social License to Operate

Recognize the importance of Community relations, Environment and Security to the operations environment and manages area of responsibility in recognition of the need to maintain the Social License to Operate:

•Respecting local communities, their cultures, traditions and leaders

•Ensuring that any work that may impact local communities only proceeds following appropriate engagement and consultation

•Abiding by company, community and environmental policies, standards, procedures and processes to minimize disturbance and impact

• Ensures that business partners abide by the company community and environment policies and do not bring the company into dispute with communities, local and national authorities

•Undertakes all activities on and offsite in compliance with company Security procedures and operating levels

• Ensure drill and blast activities are planned with consideration for vibration, noise, and dust impacts on nearby communities.

•Support transparent communication with community representatives regarding planned blasting schedules and potential disruptions.

Budgets, Cost & Governance

Budgets, Cost & Governance

Adherence to budget and forecast costs, ensuring compliance with company financial and governance policies, procedures and reporting standards:

•Adherence to budget and forecast cost and production targets and commitments

•Providing input into monthly, quarterly and budgeting processes

•Actively managing cost and performance targets and cascades expectations to personnel

•Maximize efficiency to minimize production losses, waste, repeat work and other unnecessary expenditure

• Undertaking all business activities in adherence to the company Code of Conduct, Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Fraud prevention policies, procedures and strategies.

• Monitor and report drill and blast costs, ensuring alignment with budget and identifying opportunities for cost reduction.

• Provide justification for cost deviations and support variance analysis with operational data.

• Ensure contractor invoices and performance align with agreed rates and scope; escalate discrepancies.

• Contribute to improving forecast accuracy by integrating performance data and operational trends.

Leadership, People & Development

Demonstrate the highest professional and ethical standards ensuring all actions are transparent and in accordance with company policy and values:

• Openly support Company policy regardless of personal views

• Recognize, respect and actively promote diversity within the team

• Actively demonstrates respect for cultural and religious views

• Ensuring all team members understand their tasks and their importance

• Recognize and support key personnel for career development / advancement, identifying high potential personnel and supporting the performance review and management processes

• Developing and supporting the team to continually improve the operational processes; developing and progressing CI projects

• Enabling the advancement of National employees through structured development and coaching for career development / advancement

• Developing, delivering on and monitoring succession plans mapped to competency frameworks; identifying high potential personnel and supporting the performance review and management processes

• Ensuring all personnel understand relevant operational strategies and goals; translating the vision into day-to-day activities, enabling the team to understand how they add value to the business

• Ensuring a team-based culture between employees, departments and contractors

• Ensuring scheduled consistent and structured development and coaching for career development / advancement

• Provide structured technical coaching to junior engineers, including guidance on blast design, performance analysis, and safe work procedures.

• Conduct formal performance appraisals and provide feedback aligned with operational KPIs and development goals.

• Identify skill gaps and recommend training programs to build technical and leadership capacity within the drill and blast team.

• Foster collaborative relationships with contractors, ensuring alignment with site culture, safety standards, and performance expectations.

Technical Skills

Demonstrate technical and conceptual excellence in anticipating problems and guiding the team to deliver agreed departmental and business goals to ensure the value of the business is maintained or improved:

• Establishing and monitoring a competency register identifying skills gaps and recommendations for technical training and leadership development

• Setting priorities and allocating work to competent personnel

• Collaborating with business partners and setting up work for execution

• Ensuring work is completed to the required quality and specification

• Ensuring work is commenced and completed within the required timeframe

• Ensuring feedback on all works completed is recorded, including opportunities for improvement

• Development and optimization of drill and blast strategies aligned with geological domains and weathering profiles.

• Design and review of bench blasting plans, firing sequences, and fragmentation models.

• Use of advanced software tools such as BlastPlan, SHOTPlus, BlastIQ, SURPAC, and Vulcan.

• Collaboration with Geotechnical and Geology teams to minimize ore dilution and ensure wall stability.

• Oversight of explosives inventory and magazine management.

• Preparation of SOPs and guidelines for safe and effective drill and blast operations.

• Delivery of monthly performance and cost justification reports.

• Technical mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.

• Implement feedback loops and performance reviews to continuously improve blast outcomes, fragmentation, and disability.

• Ensure all drill and blast activities comply with internal standards and external regulatory requirements, including explosives handling and storage.

• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies and digital tools to improve blast design accuracy and operational efficiency.

• Actively engage with Planning, Survey, and Processing teams to align drill and blast activities with broader operational goals.



Planning & Scheduling

Demonstrate commitment to delivering on departmental and site business plans; ensuring resources are aligned to the plan:

• Contributing to budgets, schedules and plans

• Ensuring adequate resourcing for task requirements

• Development of monthly, quarterly, and annual drill and blast forecasts.

• Coordination with the Planning team to align drill and blast schedules with production targets.

• Monitoring of drill and blast progress to ensure alignment with short- and long-term mine plans.

• Validation of equipment capacity (drill rigs, MSUs) to meet operational requirements.

• Identification of improvement opportunities and alignment with business priorities.

• Ensure drill and blast schedules are fully integrated with production and processing targets to avoid bottlenecks and delays.

• Use performance data and field feedback to adjust plans dynamically and improve forecast accuracy.

• Work closely with Survey, Geology, and Operations teams to align drill patterns and blast timing with pit development.

• Develop contingency plans for weather disruptions, equipment breakdowns, or supply delays affecting drill and blast execution.

Formal Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering

• Shotfirer ticket (preferred).

Experience

• Minimum 6 years of experience in drilling and blasting operations, preferably in open-pit mining environments.

• Strong proficiency in Mine planning software such as SURPAC, Vulcan, and the Microsoft Office suite.

• Practical experience with advanced drill and blast software, including BlastPlan, SHOTPlus, and BlastIQ.

• Certified in Shotfirer Training and Blast Management.

• In-depth knowledge of safety regulations, environmental policies, and compliance standards related to drilling and blasting.

• Proven ability to analyze blast performance, optimize fragmentation, and reduce ore dilution.

• Experience in cost tracking, budget alignment, and reporting for drill and blast operations.

• Skilled in mentoring and coaching junior engineers, developing SOPs, and conducting performance appraisals.

• Effective communicator with strong analytical, problem-solving, and time management skills.

• Able to work independently with minimal supervision and coordinate across multiple departments and contractors.

• Holds a valid driver’s license.



Personal traits:

• Initiative – Proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement and taking ownership of tasks.

• Coordination – Able to manage multiple stakeholders and align activities across departments and contractors.

• Time Management – Effectively prioritizes tasks to meet operational deadlines.

• Analytical Thinking – Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and optimize performance.

• Communication – Clear and professional in both written and verbal communication across technical and operational teams.

• Leadership – Capable of mentoring junior engineers and leading by example in safety and performance.

• Integrity – Upholds company values and ethical standards in all aspects of the role.

• Resilience – Maintains focus and effectiveness under pressure in a dynamic mining environment.

APPLICATION

The application package consisting of a letter of motivation to the attention of the People & Development Manager of SOMISY-SA, a CV and copies of the identity/NINA card, diplomas, work certificates must be submitted by Email at: [email protected] or put in the mailbox at the Syama mine main gate with the subject « Application for the position of Senior Drill & Blast Engineer » the latest .

January 2nd, 2026, at 5 pm.

NB:

1. CVs must indicate three (03) professional reference persons with telephone numbers and Email address.

2. Applications submitted will not be returned and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for tests and interviews.