- Co-ordinate and control the activities of the Technical Department to provide technical guidance and expertise to operating officials in order that production targets can be achieved safely, efficiently and economically
- To ensure timely provision of annual Resources and Reserves for the Mine.
- Ensure that Exploration and dewatering drilling programs for the mine are adhered to ensure provision of advance geological data and dewatering are done ahead of mining
- Ensure optimum planning of the Mining Department’s resources in the short, medium and long terms, in order to maximize production levels but at the same time minimize costs. Provide technical expertise to support mining operations and other processes.
- Co-ordinate, develop and control of the strategy to increase ore resources and convert into Reserves by ensuring compliance to the prescribed method of resource – reserves estimations
- Develop and gain approval of plans for the systematic extraction of the ore reserves/resources to maximize production levels and identify capital requirements in order that production costs are minimized and to provide data for corporate planning purpose
- Analyze production trends in order to advise the Mine Manager on all aspects of problems requiring Company policy decisions, with recommendations.
Approve, monitor and investigate deviations from departmental budgets so that target unit costs are maintained.