Mining Engineer

Nkosini Ntini Mining Engineer- Planning

***********@*****.*** BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering

PERSONAL SYNOPSIS

A self – motivated and dedicated Engineer resilient to any working environment. Key skills include safety management, teamwork, short-term and long-term planning, mine design. Articulate communicator who is highly innovative.

PERSONAL OBJECTIVE

To join a dynamic organisation as a mining professional who will add value to the organisation’s production and development plans. I endeavour to develop my career in Mining Engineering and management. VALUES

I have received in history of my career good or excellent performance scores in appraisals which have highlighted my key strengths such as:

Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with a positive and mature disposition

Working independently though being able to uphold values of team play

Zeal to professionally develop my knowledge, skills and understanding by learning from co-workers and studying. UNDERGROUND MINING PROFILE

I am a committed and experienced mining engineer with over 5 years of underground hard rock gold mining specialising in the following areas;

Development and production planning including scheduling

Underground mine design

Production drilling and blasting for sublevel open stoping with longholes

Development mining for stope preparation

Pillar reclamation

Underground tramming (using rail systems) and crushing systems,

Shaft maintenance and hoisting systems

Management of OHSAS 18001:2007, ISO 14001: 2001 and ISO 9001:2008 SHEQ systems EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1. Metallon Gold Zimbabwe – How Mine

Position: Mining Planning and Projects Officer October 2014 – Present Reporting to the Underground and Technical Services Managers (2) Major responsibilities:

Long term and short term planning

Planning for, implementation and managing projects within the mining department

Managing mining efficiencies- control of costs

Preparing and compiling mine reports

Nkosini Ntini Mining Engineer- Planning

***********@*****.*** BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering

Preparing and management of the Mining Department bonus schemes

Mine Design

Duties:

Planning, organising and controlling all underground activities so that production, primary and secondary development and safety targets are met at all times.

Compiling of Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual reports with justifications and break down analysis

Scheduling mining activities to bring blocks into production at the earliest possible date. 2. Metallon Gold Zimbabwe – How Mine

Position: Shift Boss Feb 2014 to Sept 2014

Reporting to the Underground Manager, in this role I was in charge of the back shifts. The back shift operations were mainly ore hoisting, stope lashing, development ends lashing, tramming, shaft lashing, pumping and long hole drilling. Duties and responsibilities

Managing all back shift activities

Trouble shooting and problem solving all issues arising in the back shift

Supervising re-entry into work areas

EMS and OHS systems management and implementation

Decision making for smooth running of operations 3. Metallon Gold Zimbabwe – How Mine

Position: Overseer Miner Feb 2013 to Jan 2014

A post where I was running/managing a section with development, short hole and long hole stoping, production and pipes tracks and ventilation maintenance crews. The job involved planning for these crews and on site management of tasks; reporting to the mine captain. In this position my responsibilities included;

Section planning

Safety management

Compiling daily reports

Compiling monthly reports

EMS and OHS management

Conducting mine internal audits

Directing operations in the section

Underground department labour budgeting

Official (standby) duties

4. Metallon Gold Zimbabwe – How Mine

Postion: Trainee Mining Engineer Mar 2012 to Jan 2013 This was highly educational and skill developing programme that took me through all activities of Gold mining (massive ore body). My role was that of a junior Mining Engineer in which I went through all activities for the purpose of optimizing and redesigning these operations. I was involved in problem solving across the mining department. Most of the time was spent in the 16N7 shaft deepening project. My role in this project was to monitor project on site, coordinate and conduct project meetings and was part of the project planning team. The project involved shaft sinking, shaft equipping, mining a hoist chamber, mining two rope raises, mining a sheave wheels chamber, mining two conveyor drives, installation of a hoist, installation of a camel back tipping station, installation of two conveyor belts and construction of a loading station. Nkosini Ntini Mining Engineer- Planning

***********@*****.*** BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering 5. Metallon Gold Zimbabwe – Shamva Mine

Position: Trainee Mining Engineer Jan 2011 to Feb 2012 In this position I underwent an appreciation programme that matured into supervision and the last four months were spent optimizing operations and monitoring production. The mining operations included drilling and blasting, lashing, tramming, crushing, loading and ore hoisting.

Other Responsibilities:

Mine Planning and design

Shaft sinking

Drilling and blasting procedures

Ventilation

Environmental management system (EMS)

EMS internal audits

Geology

Survey

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Current studies

Masters in Rock Engineering- University of Witwatersrand

Certificate in Strata Control- Chamber of Mines of South Africa Softwares

AutoCAD

Vulcan Software

Microsoft Projects

Examine2D

Lamodel

Work related learning

Attachment student mining engineer- How Mine Jan 2008- Sept 2008.

ISO 14001 EMS training(How Mine,2013)

OHSAS 18001 OHS training (How Mine 2014)

OHSAS 18001 Internal auditors course (How Mine 2014)

ISO 9001 QMS training (How Mine 2014)

Projects Undertaken

1. A comparison of button bits (tapper steel) with chisel (integrated) bits at How Mine. 2. Surface mine operation to bridge over a shut down period of underground operations at How mine for a period of 10 days. This project kept the plant running with low grade ore from the surface operation for the shut down period successfully with commendable bullions produced at a very low cost.

Nkosini Ntini Mining Engineer- Planning

***********@*****.*** BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering Other

1. Full blasting licence

2. First Aid certificate

3. Clean Class 4 Drivers Licence

4. ISO 14001 Internal auditing certificate

Personal details

Name : Nkosini Ntini

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Single

DOB : 07 February 1986

Citizenship : Zimbabwean

Contact address :14471 Intundla Ave

Selborn Park,

Bulawayo

Cell : +263-***-******

Email :***********@*****.***

Academic Qualifications

University level : University of Zimbabwe (2005-2010) BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering

Advanced Level : 3 GCE `A` Level Passes in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Ordinary level : 8 GCE `O` Level Passes

Including Mathematics and English

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