Trans4mine Global Specialist

Are you ready to embark on an exciting career, where you get the chance to work together with brilliant minds and shape best practices in an international environment? At Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions (SMR), we’re currently looking for an enthusiastic and empowering Mining Engineer to join the Trans4mine group and Major Surface Projects team.
 

Shortly about us
We’re a cross-divisional team of experts with the key focus to support specific strategic applications and translate those into viable mining solutions, aiming to meet and exceed customer expectations. To be our customers’ first productivity partner is one of SMRs strategic focus areas and to accelerate growth with large miners we’re creating an additional capability within the Trans4mine team We’re looking forward to meeting you
 

About your job
In this position, you support new and existing applications in the field of digitalization, automation, and mine electrification technologies. You support and interact with our divisions – Surface Drills, Rotary Drills, Rock Tools, Parts & Services and Digital Mining Technologies – and you take customer feedback for continuous product development and communicate recommendations on sound fact-based data analysis and best practices.

Your responsibility include:

Supporting and collaborating with the Trans4mine team with knowledge and insights from customer sites - assisting best practices, sustainable safety, cost, and productivity benefits. Understanding customer requirements and needs by conducting readiness studies and reviews. Providing value quantification and trade-off studies. Operating mine planning and design software to work with customer’s mining plans. Providing fleet size calculations, supporting sites in fleet selection, and supporting sales areas with tenders and global framework agreements. Analyze data and mining processes to identify operational bottlenecks and related continuous improvements.

You report to the Manager for Trans4Mine Global. The location for this position is flexible between Southern Africa, Europe, USA or Latin America. Ideally close to one of our mining hubs and we offer you a hybrid working model. International travel is a natural part of your job.
 

About you
We’re looking for someone with a university degree in Mining Engineering, Industrial Engineering or the equivalent experience gained from a working career in surface mining. You need solid experience in surface mining, mine applications engineering, or industrial engineering, combined with holistic knowledge in surface mining applications. Good project management skills is key to success in this role. We believe you’ve been trained and are component with mine planning software, preferably Deswik, and also in mine automation and digital systems. Acting in a truly global environment calls for proficient English skills, both formal reports writing, presentation purposes and verbal.

You have a genuine drive and passion for working with customers and happily go that extra mile to exceed their expectations. With your good interpersonal skills, you easily work and collaborate with people in a global setting and can operate in a matrix organization across different cultures. You enjoy extensive travel and have the discipline to work independently and are at the same time a positive influencer in a team environment

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