<p><strong>Location:</strong> Site-Based at Blue Moon Metals’ Apex Property in St George, Utah, USA</p> <p><strong>Employment Type:</strong> Full-Time</p> <p><strong>Reports To:</strong> Manager, Special Projects</p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>The Underground Mine Engineer provides technical and planning support for underground mine development and production activities at Apex. This role prepares Mine designs, schedules, production plans, and engineering analyses while monitoring execution and responding to changing underground conditions.</p> <p>Working closely with Mine Operations, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Maintenance, Projects, Survey, and Health and Safety, the Underground Mine Engineer helps ensure that mine plans are safe, practical, and aligned with production objectives. The role combines office-based engineering with regular underground field involvement.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Underground Mine Planning & Design</strong></p> <ul> <li>Develop short- and medium-range underground mine plans, designs, schedules, and production forecasts.</li> <li>Prepare development layouts, access designs, production sequences, and related underground infrastructure plans.</li> <li>Incorporate geological, geotechnical, ventilation, equipment, and operational requirements into mine designs.</li> <li>Waste rock planning and backfill management</li> </ul> <p><strong>Operational Engineering Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide daily technical support to underground Operations and assist with the execution of approved mine plans.</li> <li>Monitor development and production performance against plan and investigate schedule, productivity, and cost variances.</li> <li>Conduct regular underground inspections to verify conditions, progress, and alignment with engineering designs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Drill, Blast & Ground Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>Support the preparation and optimization of development and production drilling and blasting designs.</li> <li>Coordinate with Geotechnical Engineering and Operations regarding ground-support requirements and changing ground conditions.</li> <li>Review blast results, excavation performance, overbreak, dilution, and other operating outcomes to identify improvements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical Analysis & Reporting</strong></p> <ul> <li>Complete engineering analyses involving development rates, production capacity, equipment requirements, material movement, and mine infrastructure.</li> <li>Maintain accurate mine-planning records, production data, drawings, schedules, and technical reports.</li> <li>Support reconciliation between planned and actual development, production, tonnage, grade, and costs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Health, Safety & Compliance</strong></p> <ul> <li>Incorporate health, safety, environmental, geotechnical, ventilation, and regulatory requirements into mine plans and designs.</li> <li>Participate in risk assessments, workplace inspections, design reviews, incident investigations, and change-management processes.</li> <li>Identify and communicate underground hazards, planning constraints, and conditions requiring corrective action.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Collaboration & Continuous Improvement</strong></p> <ul> <li>Coordinate mine-planning requirements with Operations, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Survey, Maintenance, Projects, and Health and Safety.</li> <li>Communicate plans, priorities, technical requirements, and schedule changes to affected stakeholders, ensuring where required collaboration and communication with the corporate mining team.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to improve safety, productivity, development performance, resource recovery, and operating efficiency.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications & Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering or a related engineering discipline</li> <li>Professional Engineer licensure in the applicable state, or eligibility to obtain the appropriate designation, is preferred</li> <li>Minimum 3 years’ underground mine-engineering experience.</li> <li>Experience with underground mine planning, design, scheduling, and operational support.</li> <li>Familiarity with underground development, production drilling and blasting, ground support, ventilation, and mine infrastructure.</li> <li>Experience interpreting geological, survey, and geotechnical information.</li> <li>Experience using mine-planning and design software.</li> <li>Valid driver’s license and ability to meet all site-access and underground-work requirements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Skills & Competencies</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong knowledge of underground mine-planning, design, and production principles.</li> <li>Ability to prepare practical mine designs and schedules that reflect field conditions and operational requirements.</li> <li>Proficiency with relevant mine-planning, design, scheduling, and data-analysis software.</li> <li>Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving abilities.</li> <li>Ability to interpret mine plans, survey information, geological models, and geotechnical data.</li> <li>Strong wri