geomechanics specialist

We have an opportunity in the Underground Project Geomechanical Team to work at our corporate office in Belo Horizonte - MG, dedicated to the Underground Project, Appian's largest global project, with investments exceeding R$ 1 billion. This is a strategic milestone for the company, requiring highly qualified professionals to ensure excellence in the acquisition of critical goods and services for its implementation.

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Responsabilidades e atribuições

• Assess stability of production, infrastructure and access excavations, explicitly accounting for SLC extraction, draw control and induced stress/strain from cave propagation;
• Perform rock mass classification (RMR, Q, GSI) with SLC-specific inputs (joint persistence, caveability indices, fragmentation) and maintain geotechnical domains;
• Monitor the evolution of the caving front and subsidence influence zones;
• Develop and maintain TARP/trigger levels for convergence, seismicity and subsidence;
• Issue geotechnical hazard maps and action plans;
• Design/review primary and secondary ground support: bolts, cable bolts, mesh, shotcrete (steel/fibre-reinforced), spiles/forepoles, straps, lattice girders;
• Define installation QA/QC and acceptance criteria;
• Plan and supervise instrumentation (MPBX/extensometers, prisometers, stress cells, piezos, microseismic, radar/laser convergence);
• Analyze trends and issue recommendations to Operations and Mine Planning;
• Provide technical geomechanics recommendations to planning and operations teams, considering stability limits, mining sequencing, and dilution control;
• Lead trade-off evaluations (support options, excavation shapes, sequencing, development vs. production interactions) including schedule/cost/risk impacts, and document decisions;
• Provide ground control guidance to daily/weekly planning (rehabilitation standards, ground support patterns, barricading/zoning);
• Build and interpret 3D numerical models to forecast stresses, displacements and potential failure modes across mining phases; calibrate models with monitoring data. (Rocscience, Itasca, among others);
• Prepare technical reports, memos and dashboards (KPIs, compliance to design, condition ratings), and present findings to management;
• Set up constitutive models, boundary conditions, and run sensitivity analyses;
• Ground support & fortification: design bases, mix designs for shotcrete (steel/fibre), bolt/cable selection, pull-testing, pattern optimization, durability/corrosion, installation QA/QC;
• Monitoring & data: configuration and interpretation of microseismic, displacement and stress datasets; integration with mine databases (e.g., Deswik/Leapfrog outputs);
• Reporting & trade-offs;
• Ability to perform ground control duties as the owner's counterpart, both in the field during construction and in the office reviewing engineering deliverables;
• Ground control experience as an owner's representative, covering site execution and office review of engineering deliverables;
• Collaborate closely with Safety, Geology, Planning, and Operations departments;

Requisitos e qualificações

Mandatory requirements (education, experience, technical knowledge, etc.):

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, Geology, or Geological Engineering;
• Fluent English;
• Advanced knowledge in geomechanics applied to subsidence and progressive collapse;
• Knowledge of geotechnical instrumentation and continuous monitoring systems;
• Proficiency in geotechnical modeling software: Itasca (FLAC3D, 3DEC); Rocscience (RS3); Massflow; Abaqus (desirable);
• Proven experience in underground mining with caving methods;
• Experience in advanced project studies (pre-feasibility, feasibility, and detailed engineering);
• Experience in operations or projects related to caving;

It will be considered an asset:

• Experience in underground construction;
• Experience in the Sublevel Caving method;
• Advanced Spanish;

Informações adicionais

Essential: Availability for periodic travel to the operation located in Itagibá/BA.

Benefits:

Medical insurance – Bradesco Saúde

Dental insurance – Bradesco Dental

Life insurance

Meal and food vouchers

Wellhub

Conexa Saúde

Atlantic Nickel é uma empresa que concentra as suas operações em uma das maiores minas de níquel sulfetado a céu aberto do mundo Atuamos nas atividades de exploração, mineração, beneficiamento e comercialização do concentrado de níquel.

Nossa história:

Somos uma empresa brasileira e o seu produto é o Concentrado de Níquel. A mina fica localizada no sul da Bahia, no município de Itagibá,

a apenas 140km do Aeroporto de Ilhéus, 110km das belas praias de Itacaré e a 370km de Salvador. Conta também com um escritório corporativo em

Belo Horizonte-MG.

O foco de produção da empresa é o concentrado de Níquel de alta qualidade, com teores 13% a 15% de Ni.

A Atlantic Nickel concentra seus investimentos na produção de concentrado de níquel e acredita no aquecimento da demanda internacional pelo minério, incentivada pelo aumento da produção de baterias, veículos elétricos e aço inoxidável.

Em maio de 2019 lançou sua nova marca, alinhada com sua estratégia de longo prazo, gerando valor para toda a cadeia produtiva.

A marca Atlantic Nickel nasce com o posicionamento de buscar um crescimento sustentável, mantendo seu compromisso

com a responsabilidade socioambiental e com o desenvolvimento das localidades onde está inserida, estimulando o fortalecimento de todo o setor.

Visão e Estratégia:

A empresa integra a Appian Capital Advisory, grupo britânico com presença na América do Sul (Brasil), América do Norte (Canadá) e África (Burkina Faso e Tanzânia).

Trabalhando em conjunto com os profissionais da Appian Capital Advisory, a equipe da Atlantic Nickel apresenta uma abordagem diferenciada de todo o projeto da Mina Santa Rita, identificando os principais riscos operacionais e oportunidades de crescimento da empresa.