Planning Engineer

Westgold Resources is shaping the future of gold mining in Western Australia. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team who shares our vision of building a sustainable and profitable major Australian gold business.

Reporting to the Senior Planning Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering safe, practical mine designs and schedules that support underground performance and production targets.

Working closely with operational stakeholders, you'll contribute to short and medium-term planning while ensuring compliance with site safety, environmental, and technical standards.

Why This Role?

• Long-life underground operation with strong growth potential.
• Large-scale mining environment where your contribution will have a tangible impact.
• Opportunity to take ownership of mine design and extraction optimisation initiatives.
• Strong pathway for career progression into a Senior Planning Engineer role.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop safe and practical underground mine designs, including development layouts, stopes, Mini-DAF/DAF designs, and level extraction plans.
• Prepare and maintain 13-week mine schedules aligned with production and operational requirements.
• Review drill and blast plans to ensure safe and effective execution.
• Ensure designs comply with geotechnical requirements, the GCMP, and ventilation planning standards.
• Support a strong safety culture through risk assessments, inspections, incident investigations, and compliance activities.
• Maintain planning systems and databases, including Deswik and LiveMine, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Identify and communicate critical path activities across plans, forecasts, and budgets.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering.
• Proficiency in Deswik (CAD, UGDB, Sched) and Microsoft Office.
• Completed underground time.
• Current unrestricted WA C-Class Driver's Licence.
• National Police Clearance (within 12 months).
• First Class Mine Manager's Certificate highly regarded.

The Westgold Offer:

A permanent full-time position at a successful gold producer

A range of benefits including:

• Performance based bonus

• Group salary continuous insurance

• A health and wellness allowance Health insurance discount

• A range of Family and Medical leave policies that includes IVF, surrogacy and adoption.

• Referral Bonus - bring your mates along!

• 5 years' pro rata long service leave

• Salary sacrifice options

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that include free confidential counselling, wellbeing services that includes financial advice.

Our full list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by Work 180 can be seen on the Work180 website.

Westgold is driven by our core values of Show Respect, Choose Safety and Deliver Value. We believe that these values define our culture, behaviours and actions. We appreciate that not everybody will tick every box for their next dream role, but if you believe that you can bring the passion and drive to contribute to our operations and our values resonate with you then apply now!

Candidates must meet our pre-employment criteria’s which includes medical and drug and alcohol screening, relevant right to work checks and be able to provide a valid Australian national police clearance and an Australian driver’s licence (or be able to obtain).

Westgold is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone matters. We believe diversity is a strength and true diversity includes those from First Nations People, various cultures, age groups, Neurodiverse backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, diverse abilities and religions. We value the unique perspectives and experiences each person brings and that diverse teams leads to innovation and success. Our goal is to have safe and respectful environments where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and we strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Westgold appreciates that standard recruitment processes are not accessible for everyone. If you believe you require additional support or accommodations, so you feel comfortable participating in our recruitment process for this or any of our roles, please feel free to email inclusion@westgold.com.au

Westgold reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. We will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.