The spectrum of career paths provides male and female graduates with the flexibility to work in and move between a diverse range of environments and locations: national and international, country and city, surface or underground, office or field.
After graduation, some mining engineers elect to work at mine sites while others move into various business sectors such as consulting, finance, information technology and manufacturing. Graduates often move between mining operation sectors and business sectors as their careers develop.
Those graduates entering the mining operations sector (which includes quarrying) have the opportunity to work in either:
- Technical roles such as geotechnical engineering, mine planning and design, drill and blast, mine ventilation and environmental management.
- Production roles such as team leader, shift supervisor and mine manager.
- Business development roles such as project management, financial analysis and marketing.
After gaining the required amount of work experience at mine sites, many mining engineers then elect to gain their statutory Mine Managers qualifications. Initially in charge of a small section of a mine, they take increasingly responsible positions, managing mines with between 300 - 400 employees and annual turnovers of more that $100 million whilst still in the early stages of their career.
All graduates have the opportunity to develop career paths in areas such as:
- Technical specialist e.g. geomechanics, drill and blast, tunneling, mine ventilation, equipment design and selection and mine planning.
- Consulting e.g. all aspects of engineering design and practice, corporate management, financial analysis, environmental assessment, strategic planning, marketing.
- Computer software development and information management systems.
- Merchant banking.
- Stockbrokerage.
- Project management.
- Government policy planning and administration.
- Research and development.
- Education and training.
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