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Charles Schmitz

Summary

Detail-oriented team player and leader with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy, while being mindful of downstream safety and environmental impacts

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Cost Engineer

Nevada Gold Mines
02.2022 - Current
  • Worked with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Finance teams to produce quarterly and LOM cost forecasts for operations and maintenance activities based on production physicals and planned maintenance.
  • Improved cost/ton forecast variance by 26%.
  • Prepared and presented AFE documentation/justification for capital equipment purchases and capital projects.
  • Completed Project Justification for $4 Million Aggregate Borehole Liner purchase to reduce liner replacements and improve throughput through reduced planned maintenance.
  • Projected savings of $2.30/ton on aggregate savings and total cost per ton savings of $1.00/ton.
  • Prepared and presented quarterly review and cost forecast presentations to Senior Leadership.
  • Tracked monthly and quarterly spends and provide variance explanations to Senior Leadership.
  • Supervised multiple junior engineers and mentored into roles to complete tasks as a Cost Engineering Team.
  • Worked with Mobile Maintenance Team to build an automated report to identify top contributing factors for equipment downtime.

Project Shift Coordinator

Nevada Gold Mines
08.2020 - 02.2022
  • Conducted Geotechnical tests to determine required ground support.
  • Worked with Contractor to determine the best methods to execute engineered plans.
  • Ensured all contractors were working safely and following Turquoise Ridge policies.
  • Coordinated between efforts between Contractor and Company employees to meet production targets for 3rd Shaft Project and TRUG.
  • Completed weekly, monthly, and quarterly progress reports.
  • Gained experience in incident management including time-sensitive reports and incident investigation.

Engineer II

Nevada Gold Mines (Formerly Barrick Nevada)
12.2018 - 08.2020
  • Produced weekly and monthly mine plans, using Deswik.Sched, to meet quarterly production forecasts.
  • Built quarterly production forecasts within 2-year planning window to meet LOM production profiles.
  • Built relationships with Operations, Maintenance, and Technical Services groups to design Drift and Fill production levels, bench stopes, and primary development ramps to optimize production.
  • Worked with Jumbo Operators to design face profiles using different burdens and spacings, and upload to jumbo drills using OEM programming.
  • Provided timing maps to powder crews for bench shots.

Mine Foreman

Hecla Nevada (Formerly Klondex Mines)
08.2018 - 12.2018
  • Front line supervisor for crews of up to 3 employees and 4 contractors, ensured that safety and production targets were achieved.
  • Ensured all company employees and contractors are working safely and following Midas' SOP's.
  • Worked with miners to find the best method to execute engineering plans.
  • Performed weekly inspections of all open areas.

Junior Mine Engineer

Klondex Mines
08.2017 - 08.2018
  • Surveyed asbuilts of working headings, and updated rib, back, and vein details in Vulcan.
  • Provided line and grade for ore and waste development headings.
  • Plotted cut sheets showing updated surveyed asbuilts and planned development.
  • Provided the Chief Engineer and General Foremen contract footages at the end of pay periods.
  • Performed CMS scans of longhole stopes and surface stockpiles.
  • Digitized survey asbuilts (polylines and laser scans) in cad software.
  • Designed longhole stopes using different burdens and spacings based on vein dimensions.
  • Produced weekly and monthly production plans that meet monthly and quarterly production forecasts.
  • Built relationships with operations staff to find solutions to meet the weekly production plans.

Education

B.S. Mining Engineering -

Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Butte, MT
05.2017

Skills

  • Deswik CAD/Sched
  • Xeras
  • Vulcan
  • Orica Shotplus
  • Sandvik I-sure
  • MS Office
  • Team-Oriented
  • Results Driven

References

Available upon request

Timeline

Senior Cost Engineer

Nevada Gold Mines
02.2022 - Current

Project Shift Coordinator

Nevada Gold Mines
08.2020 - 02.2022

Engineer II

Nevada Gold Mines (Formerly Barrick Nevada)
12.2018 - 08.2020

Mine Foreman

Hecla Nevada (Formerly Klondex Mines)
08.2018 - 12.2018

Junior Mine Engineer

Klondex Mines
08.2017 - 08.2018

B.S. Mining Engineering -

Montana Tech of the University of Montana

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