Applied for: “Senior Mining Engineer”

Multi-skilled mine management professional handling ends to end project management from assessing feasibility to planning & monitoring on-site activities and final execution of mining (development & operations) projects in a safe, efficient and cost-effective manner.

Profile Summary:

A highly accomplished professional with over 22.6 years of indigenous experience in managing high risk and large-scale Projects related to Mining / Quarry Operations, Site Management, Blasting and Team Management across India & Abroad

Currently serving as Quarry Supervisor / Sr. Mining Engineer with Stevin Rock LLC, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, which is producing quarry extraction of 54 million tonnes per year.

Gained strong exposure to Projects Management, Budgeting and Contract Negotiation

Skilled in identifying potential mineral prospects / sites as well as ensuring adherence to the mining laws & cement manufacturing process

Possess in-depth understanding of various mining methods and its executional intensive skills & proven abilities in coordinating and leading variety of people and projects with an ability to develop strategic plans

Educational credentials included U.A.E Federal Law Blasting Expert License Holder and Manager’s Second-Class Certificate of Competency under MMR-1961 & Mines Act-1952

An effective communicator with assertive and strong leadership qualities and analytical with good time management skills, to enhance the team’s performance

Areas of Expertise:

# Project Coordination:

Management Skills and expertise in operating Quarries safely and economically.

Conceptualising and effectuating innovative and effective plans/ policies for enhancing operations and meeting organisational objectives

Overseeing financial management, monitoring allocated funds, as well as planning and budgeting

Conducting pre-feasibility/ feasibility studies and controlling the cost of operations

Management of entire quarry operations of one or more quarries.

Full time responsibility of quarry operations to produce and deliver aggregate and various rock products against the customer demands.

Participation with top management, receive guide lines of objectives of business sales and revenue for further process.

Generate site goals of sales, productions and quality and revenues as per customer demand and funnel down for department and area wise.

Ensure overall strategic direction for all departments in line with the company’s vision and mission.

Strong commitment to achieve business strategic objectives with time lines.

Plans, organize and direct all departments activities to achieve their objectives safe and effectively at international market standards and develop their competency levels in performances of works.

Operate the quarry as per the standards of ISO, IMS and QHSE and also as per business KPI’s of management.

Setting Key Performing Indicators (KPI) of department wise and objective wise, it’s monitoring.

Safety: Zero fatalities and Zero LTI’s; Production: Plants utilization and outputs; Costs: Cost/ton and Cost/hour; Budgets: Inventory, expenses; Turnover and Health issues.

Develop and maintain good communications and professional relationships with all levels of staff in the company and with all stakeholders and also with the local community. Fair and transparency in communications with the top management and true directional leadership to the all departments to strive all teams towards common goals as top management desires.

Assurances for long term sustainability of business in the competition of domestic and international market, for right utilization of reserves and resources, for economic productions with right qualities, for safe operations and effective team works.

Strategic planning, business development and its set ups. Business strategic auditing and its analysis skills. Development of team skills and knowledge improvement programs. ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007.

Co-ordination between marketing-production-quality and other associated departments to ensure company’s production, sales and revenue targets.

Flexibility to alter quarry production alternatives as per the customers’ demands.

Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly checks on systems, statics of quarry performances.

Strong mining and interpretive skills to problems.

Identify risks in the business and develop opportunities to overcome risks and well managed or mitigate the risks.

Computer skills (Excel and MS Office).

# Mining Operations:

Charting policies/ develop mine plans for effective execution of mining operations within the programmed time frame by managing Mine Shed.

Finalizing projected figures which serve as benchmark for effective performance within cost parameters

Overseeing the identification and selection of mining methodology and mining machinery

Optimizing loading and hauling operations by different time studies and analysis.

Updating and modifying mine designs including pit, haul road, ore and waste dumps.

Overseeing the entire highly mechanized mining operations.

Problems solving skills to improve productivity.

Supervise, works teams motivation and training, evaluation of operators, drivers, charge hands, foremen, engineers and supervisors and other personnel.

# Drilling/ Blasting:

Planning and scheduling drilling, blasting & related activities. Preparing drilling/ blasting plan to facilitate the achievement of production targets

Designing blasts for:

oLarge opencast mines including shovel & excavator benches, road construction and trenches

oMines for producing desired sizes and quantities to meet production requirements

oEnvironmentally safe, productive and economic.

oSmooth wall and wall control blasting techniques.

Rationalising equipment and materials (explosives) requirements as well as usage to meet the blasting needs Optimising operations as per the determined design/ plan

# Quality Assurance / Statutory Compliance:

Leading the implementation of Quality Assurance (ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007) in Raw Materials, Work in Progress across departments

Effectuating Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Standards & Environmental Management System in mining operations. Ensuring strict compliance with rules & regulations embodied in the Mines Act

Planning of dump-yards for better utilization of project land as well as comply with Environmental rules

Organizational Scan:

Organization: Since May’2004: Stevin Rock LLC, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Currently designated as Quarry Supervisor

Growth Path: 17.3 Years

May’2004-Sept’2005 Blasting Engineer

Sept’2006-Jan’2008 Sr. Blasting Engineer

Sept’2008-Till Date Quarry Supervisor / Sr. Mining Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities: Shouldering responsibility as Quarry In-charge; overseeing day-to-day plans to produce the targeted quantity of rocks and aggregates, a consistent feed to crushers, to produce the right quality of aggregates, and also core & armour rocks.

Highlights:

Actively involved in estimation & preparation of yearly demand sales and productions; scheduling and monitoring at different stages of productions, carrying out cost analysis of productions with sales costs and net profit value calculations

Efficiently & effectively supervised a team of 210 Employees; took care of entire staff management functions by setting and assigning clear performance objectives and getting feedback regularly & development of teams for maximum effectiveness in safety and productivity by induction and training

Pivotal in dealing with disciplinary matters to improve work culture and avoid works issues / conflicts

Significant contributions towards preparation & implementation of short term / long term plans with good supervision for quarry development; designed haul roads & ramps and drill & blast planning to ensure right fragmentation, maximum availability of suitable grade rock for extraction and supply consistent quality rock to crushers and direct sales to customers

Instrumental in quarry development procedure i.e. planning by using Surpac, face profiling, machines-tam rock ranger, shot plus-i, various blasting techniques for bench opening, pre-splitting, better fragmentation and its improvements & studies, blasting techniques in respect of fly rock, noise & ground vibrations, Pc400, Pc800, Pc1250,Pc2000, Cat 6020B, Cat 6030, Cat345, Cat349, Cat390, Komatsu WA500, Cat960, 980, 988 F&H, 990, 992C, 992K, 993K, CatD9; Dump trucks: Terex-45 & 100, Cat-769,773, Komatsu785, Komatsu HD1500 etc. DTH drill machines Tam rock DI550, Dozers CAT D9.

Successfully used excavation & hauling techniques viz. haul roads & ramps designs, various time studies for production improvements, crushers (C160 and hybrid roll crushers) and screens, various techniques in stocking and quality controlling of finished & unfinished products

Organization: Dec’1998-Mar’2004: Sagar Cements Ltd., Andhra Pradesh, India

Mining Engineer/Assistant Mines Manager

Growth Path: 5.3 Years

Dec’1998-Mar’2001 Mining Engineer

Mar’2001-Mar’2004 Assistant Mines Manager

Roles & Responsibilities: Supervising of Shift duties, Production and quality, lease areas issues-Tri partite survey, Mine issues liaising with Govt. bodies - DGMS, DMG, IBM, MOEF and Explosives.

Education & Credentials:

Master of Business Administration - Honours (Project Management) Passed in 2015

Madonna University, Michigan, USA with G.P.A. 3.8289, 95.72%

Bachelors in Engineering - Mining Passed in July 15,1998, awarded in October 28,1999.

Nagpur University, India with 66.72%

Diploma in Mining Engineering Passed in July 4,1994

State Board of Technical Education and Training, Andhra Pradesh, India with 80.95%

Other Professional Qualifications:

Manager’s Second-Class Certificate of Competency under MMR-1961 & Mines Act-1952-Restricted to Opencast Workings Only; Government of India, Ministry of Labour, The Directorate General of Mines Safety, Board of Mining Examinations, Dhanbad, India.

U.A.E Federal Law Blasting Expert License; United Arab Emirates, Ministry of Interior, The Directorate General of Ras Al Khaimah Police Explosives & Weapons Licensing Section.

IOQ - Supervisor Training Course: Institute of Quarrying, UK.

ILM Level3 certified.

Professional Trainings:

Vision/Mission and Swot Analysis; Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (Jun’03)

First Aid – Medallion; St. John Ambulance Association, New Delhi, India (Aug’2007)

Gemcom Surpac Training; Gemcom Software (India) Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, A.P., India (Jul’11)

National Institute of Health (NIH) web-based training course “Protecting Human Research Participants” USA(Feb’13)

Research Integrity Training the Research Process, The Graduate School & Research, Madonna University, (Feb’13)

Fire Safety Training; Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Civil Defence Police Department (Jan’14)

IMS Internal Auditor Training; Lloyd’s Register LRQA, Dubai, UAE (Jan’2015)

Diploma-BlastMetriX3D Application Course; 3GSM GmbH, Austria (Mar’15)

Technical Know-how:

Understanding Gemcom Surpac Mine Planning & Designing

Blasting Software - Shot Plus- I;

MS Project

MS Office – Word, Excel & PowerPoint

Personal Details:

Application for the Post

Senior Mining Engineer

Name

Shaikh Abdul Gaffar

Nationality

Indian

Date of birth

01.06.1975

Languages Known

English, Hindi, Telugu

Passport Number and validity

M2201996 and valid up to 11.11.2024

Skills

Mine Management and technical services.

Education

Diploma Mining Engineering; B.E Mining; MBA PMGT (Hons.);

Certifications

# 2nd class Mines Manager’s Competency (India)

# Blasting Expert License (UAE)

# Institute of Quarrying Supervisory Certificate (UK)

# ILM Level 3 certificate (UK).

Related Years of Experience

22.6 years

Current Employer

Stevin Rock LLC., Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.,

Current Job Title

Sr. Mining Engineer / Quarry Supervisor

Current Salary (net in US$ / Year)

Salary per year: $66.7K + HRA: $15K + School fee: $5K + Performance bonus: $27K + family Air fare $4k;

CTC = US $117.7K/ Year and Family medical cover.

Expected Salary (net in US$/Year)

As per company standards

Notice Period

2 months

Reasons for Job change

For Career growth

Preferred Status (Married or Single) & No. of Children

Married & 2 sons

Current Location

Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Contact Numbers

+971********* (WhatsApp); +971******** (R)

Email

adn7uz@r.postjobfree.com

Car Driving License

UAE

SHAIKH ABDUL GAFFAR

B.E Mining Engineering; MBA project Management; ILM L3;

Mobile: +971-********* (WhatsApp); +971********(R); Email:adn7uz@r.postjobfree.com

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