SVP, Mining Engineering
industrial_energy_operations › Mining Engineering · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Senior executive overseeing all mine planning and mining engineering functions across the organization's mining operations.
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$322,728 USD
▲ +90.4% vs E1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior executive overseeing all mine planning and mining engineering functions across the organization's mining operations. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Lead multiple mining functions or divisions through VPs — for example combining mine planning, drilling and blasting, and operations engineering across more than one pit or operation — with decisions that materially affect production output and cost position.
- Direct cross-functional trade-offs among engineering, operations, geology, and finance where abstract, high-consequence issues (ore-blend strategy, sequencing, pit optimization across assets) carry consequences up to company viability.
- Negotiate critical matters — major contractor agreements, joint-development commitments, and capital-allocation cases built on feasibility economic analysis — with top company leadership.
- Set the multi-division standard for mine safety and operations oversight, ensuring efficient resource extraction and consistent technical governance across the significant business unit led.
- Shape the division's medium-term technical roadmap, aligning development and operations scheduling of multiple deposits with the enterprise production plan.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional judgment across multiple mining functions/divisions, integrating planning, drilling/blasting, and operations engineering; abstract, high-consequence issues where scale is inferred from the Radford discriminator.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves cross-functional, abstract problems (multi-asset sequencing, ore-blend strategy) whose consequences may reach company viability.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical matters with top leadership and major contractors; leads a functional area or significant business unit through VPs (E1–E2).
- Typical experience
- 15+ yrs; strategic leadership of mining functions or units. Mining-specific SVP experience not directly documented in payload.
Skills at this level
- Mine Planning and Development Sequencing
- — Determines the means of safely and efficiently mining deposits, sequencing development and operations, blending ore, and optimizing pit designs to bring extraction plans to life. Evidenced at Principal/technical-lead level and, at the executive tier, owned as function/portfolio strategy.
- Mine Feasibility and Economic Analysis
- — Conducts surveys of ore, mineral, or coal deposits and prepares pre-feasibility and feasibility technical reports with economic analysis to decide whether and how a potential mining operation is economically and environmentally viable — the basis for executive capital-commitment decisions.
- Drilling and Blasting Design
- — Advises on the appropriate drilling and blasting approaches for extracting deposits safely and efficiently; a technical activity that executives set standards and approval gates over.
- Mine Safety and Operations Oversight
- — Oversees mine planning, operations, and safety to ensure efficient resource extraction while optimizing productivity; scaled from site oversight at E1 to portfolio-level safety-risk accountability at higher rungs.
- Pit Optimization and Ore Blending
- — Optimizes pit designs and blends ore across the extraction program to maximize economic recovery — a cross-asset technical trade-off that becomes a division/portfolio strategic decision at the executive tier.
- Enterprise Mining Portfolio Governance
- — Governs the aggregate safety, reserve-realization, and economic-viability risk of the enterprise's mining assets, and directs which deposits are developed in what sequence under what feasibility economics — extrapolated from the Principal 'shapes long-term technical strategy across the engineering organization' boundary into corporate governance.
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