Planning Engineer

Westgold Resources is shaping the future of gold mining in Western Australia. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team who shares our vision of building a sustainable and profitable major Australian gold business.

Supporting the Senior Planning Engineer, this role is critical to delivering safe, practical mine designs and schedules that drive underground performance and achieve production targets, while upholding best-practice safety and compliance standards.

This is an awesome opportunity to work within a high performing and dedicated team, on an 8/6 roster.



Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver safe, practical underground mine designs, including development (aligned to 13-week plans), stope designs, notes and reconciliations, Mini-DAF/DAF designs, and level extraction plans
• Prepare and maintain 13-week schedules aligned to operational and safety requirements
• Review drill and blast plans to ensure safe, effective execution
• Ensure all designs comply with geotechnical requirements and GCMP, incorporating ventilation modelling into short- and medium-term planning
• Promote a strong safety culture through hazard identification, JSEAs, inspections, incident reporting, investigations, and risk management, ensuring compliance with EH&S and company standards
• Maintain and manage planning systems and databases (Deswik, Plodtrack, Livemine) with a focus on data accuracy and integrity
• Identify and communicate critical path activities across weekly plans, forecasts, and budgets
• Deputise for the Underground Manager as required

About You:

• Experience in underground hard rock mining (ideally narrow vein)
• Strong capability in mine design, planning, and scheduling
• Proficiency in Deswik (CAD, UGDB, Sched) Microsoft Office
• Bachelor of Engineering (Mining)
• Experience in a Production or Planning Engineering role
• Underground time completed
• Current unrestricted WA “C” Class Driver’s Licence
• National Police Clearance (within 12 months)
• First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate desirable

Why Join Us?

• Work in a high-performing underground mining environment
• Opportunity to develop technically and progress your career
• Supportive team culture with a strong safety focus
• Exposure to complex and rewarding mining projects

The Westgold Offer

A range of benefits including:

• A permanent full-time position at a successful gold producer
• Performance based bonus
• Group salary continuous insurance
• A health and wellness allowance
• Health insurance discount
• A range of Family and Medical leave policies that includes IVF, surrogacy and adoption.
• Referral Bonus - bring your mates along!
• 5 years' pro rata long service leave
• Salary sacrifice options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that include free confidential counselling, wellbeing services that includes financial advice.

Our full list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by Work 180 can be seen on the Work180 website.


Westgold is driven by our core values of Show Respect, Choose Safety and Deliver Value. We believe that these values define our culture, behaviours and actions.

We appreciate that not everybody will tick every box for their next dream role, but if you believe that you can bring the passion and drive to contribute to our operations and our values resonate with you then apply now!


Candidates must meet our pre-employment criteria which includes medical and drug and alcohol screening, relevant right to work checks and be able to provide a valid Australian national police clearance and an Australian driver's licence (or be able to obtain).

Westgold is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone matters. We believe diversity is a strength and true diversity includes those from First Nations People, various cultures, age groups, Neurodiverse backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, diverse abilities and religions. We value the unique perspectives and experiences each person brings and that diverse teams leads to innovation and success. Our goal is to have safe and respectful environments where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and we strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Westgold appreciates that standard recruitment processes are not accessible for everyone. If you believe you require additional support or accommodations, so you feel comfortable participating in our recruitment process for this or any of our roles, please feel free to email inclusion@westgold.com.au


Westgold reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. We will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.