Trans4mine Global Specialist - global flexible location

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 responsibilities 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.
• Analyzing 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 up to 50% of working time is a natural part of your job.

About you
We’re looking for someone with a university degree in Mining Engineering, Industrial Engineering or 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 are key to success in this role. We believe you’ve been trained and are competent 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 report writing, presentation purposes, and verbal.

You have a genuine drive and passion for working with customers and happily go the 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 while being a positive influencer in a team environment!

Our culture

At Sandvik, we’re tech-driven, innovative, and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort, so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. We invest in supporting each other, learning together, and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn, or Facebook to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact:

Praskovia Sheremeteva, Global T&A Expert, praskovya.sheremeteva@sandvik.com

How to apply

Send your application no later than November 13th, 2024. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0065461.

As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions, and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling, and quarrying. In 2023, sales were approximately 66 billion SEK with about 17,000 employees.

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