Mariana Minerals
Staff Mining Engineer
$123K–$171K
Moab, UT +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Moab, UT
Houston, TX - Experience
- 10+ years of mining industry experience, including substantial hands-on experience in hard-rock open pit mining operations.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering.
About the job
Leads short- and medium-term mine planning and supports field execution to deliver safe, practical, and efficient hard-rock open-pit mining operations.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain mine plans, schedules, and practical mine layouts; translate them into executable field instructions.
- Coordinate ore and waste movement, drilling and blasting, and equipment productivity with operations and other teams.
- Monitor actual production against plans, investigate variances, and improve mining performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering.
- 10+ years of mining industry experience, including substantial hands-on hard-rock open-pit operations experience.
- Expert proficiency in Deswik for mine design, planning, and production scheduling.
- Experience in short- and medium-term planning, operational mine design, production scheduling, mine plan execution, drill-and-blast optimization, and ore and waste planning.
Nice to have
- Experience with heap-leach operations and leach-pad planning.
- Experience with autonomous mining equipment, operational data systems, or automation of mine planning and production workflows.
Pay
$123K – $171K USD base salary
Tools
Deswik
AI focus
The company mission mentions supplying minerals for AI technologies, but the role does not specify AI work.
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