mine planning engineer

Mine planning engineers design future mine layouts capable of achieving production and mine development objectives, taking into account the geological characteristics and structure of the mineral resource. They prepare production and development schedules and monitor progress against these.

The most in-demand skills for this role include impact of geological factors on mining operations, mining engineering, geology, interface with anti-mining lobbyists, maintain plans of a mining site, generate reconciliation reports. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives mine planning engineer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.