Senior Mining Engineer and Mine Development Specialist - Remote

Senior Mining Engineer and Mine Development Specialist - Remote Senior Mining Engineer and Mine Development Specialist

Opportunity track:
SEA / GLOBAL
Engagement:Contingent individual consultant; engagement may be direct or through an eligible U.S. consulting firm
Location:Remote — United States, with possible international travel
Primary promotion location:Denver, Colorado 80202
Anticipated consulting fee:$150–$275 per hour, or a negotiated fixed price by work package

Axyde is building a senior expert bench for anticipated U.S. government-funded project-scoping assignments involving critical-minerals extraction, mine development, expansion, modernization, and associated infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific and other global markets.

The selected specialist will help Axyde determine whether proposed mining projects have a credible technical basis, an implementable development pathway, commercially reasonable assumptions, and an appropriately designed next-stage feasibility study, technical-assistance assignment, or pilot. Assignments may begin with incomplete data and require rapid, independent, and defensible conclusions.

• Evaluate mine concepts, production plans, development sequences, mining methods, operating assumptions, and resource-to-reserve considerations.
• Review available geological, geotechnical, hydrogeological, geometallurgical, and engineering information for material gaps and risks.
• Assess surface or underground mine-design considerations, including access, ventilation, dewatering, ground control, materials handling, waste management, mine services, and closure dependencies.
• Evaluate mobile and fixed-equipment strategies, automation, electrification, digital-mine technologies, productivity assumptions, workforce requirements, and operating readiness.
• Assess interfaces among the mine, processing facilities, tailings and waste systems, water supply, power, transport corridors, ports, and other enabling infrastructure.
• Develop or review technical tasks, required qualifications, deliverables, schedules, and budgets for pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, technical assistance, and pilot activities.
• Develop or independently review preliminary production, schedule, CAPEX, OPEX, implementation, and risk assumptions at a level appropriate to the available information.
• Evaluate permitting, mine safety, environmental, social, community, logistics, supply-chain, and execution dependencies affecting development.
• Participate in sponsor interviews, technical-diligence calls, and occasional site visits involving project sponsors, host-country stakeholders, financiers, and prospective U.S. suppliers.
• Contribute to concept consultations, initial assessments, project reports, presentations, and sector deep dives.
• Clearly distinguish source data, professional judgments, assumptions, limitations, and matters requiring validation by a Professional Engineer, Qualified Person, Competent Person, or other appropriately licensed professional.

• Degree in mining engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years of directly relevant mine-development, mine-planning, technical-services, operating, or consulting experience.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating critical-minerals, hard-rock, industrial-minerals, solution-mining, tailings-reprocessing, or comparable extraction projects.
• Experience translating technical findings into practical scopes of work, schedules, budgets, decision criteria, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Ability to evaluate early-stage projects with incomplete information and communicate uncertainty without overstating confidence.
• Strong analytical writing skills and the ability to work under compressed schedules.
• Contract-required status:The individual performing the work must be either a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States (green-card holder). Other forms of U.S. work authorization do not satisfy the stated requirements of the anticipated contracts. A consultant engaged directly as an individual must maintain a principal place of business in the United States. A consultant proposed through a firm must be employed or engaged through an entity that independently satisfies the solicitation’s U.S.
  
  -firm requirements.

• Professional Engineer registration and/or experience serving as a Qualified Person or Competent Person under an applicable reporting framework.
• Experience across both surface and underground mining methods.
• Experience with S-K 1300, NI 43-101, JORC, or comparable technical-reporting frameworks.
• Experience preparing or independently reviewing mine plans and scopes and budgets for pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, technical assistance, or pilot projects.
• Emerging-market experience and familiarity with international project sponsors, host-country governments, U.S. government agencies, or development-finance institutions.
• Experience assessing mine automation,…