1. Lead and coordinate mine ventilation activities across the Group’s underground operations to ensure systems are properly designed, maintained, and operated to support safe, healthy, and productive working conditions.
2. Develop, review, and optimize ventilation strategies, including life-of-mine ventilation plans and 3D digital ventilation models, in support of strategic mine planning and future production requirements.
3. Provide technical leadership and specialist support to site ventilation teams across all underground mining complexes, including implementation of new technologies, operational improvements, and ventilation standards.
4. Work closely with Occupational Hygienists, HSE teams, Risk, and site technical leadership to identify, assess, and control ventilation-related hazards, including dust, harmful gases, blasting re-entry exposure, heat, and other atmospheric contaminants.
5. Conduct and oversee regular inspections, audits, testing, and compliance reviews to verify ventilation performance against design criteria, legal requirements, exposure limits, and Company standards, and to confirm effective execution by site ventilation personnel.
6. Promote strong safety leadership and ventilation discipline by reinforcing safe behaviors, including atmospheric testing of gasses before entry into confined or hazardous spaces and prohibition of work in areas where ventilation conditions are below approved standards. Ensure no workplace to do work other than approved work to restore ventilation if the ventilation conditions in an ordinary work place is substandard.
7. Maintain working knowledge of applicable legislation and regulatory requirements of the Republic of Kazakhstan relating to mine ventilation, industrial safety, labour protection, and fire safety, and ensure these are reflected in standards, procedures, and operating practices.
8. Lead or participate in investigations of ventilation-related incidents, accidents, fires, gas exposures, and confined-space events; ensure findings, close-out actions, and lessons learned are implemented and tracked, including through EMEX where applicable.
9. Act as custodian of Group mine ventilation procedures and standards, conducting periodic reviews and updates in consultation with site Technical Directors, Chief Engineers, and the KMM Technical Department.
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Ensure critical ventilation data, records, ventilation workplace inspections and plans are maintained accurately and remain readily available for operations and emergency response, including ventilation logbooks, mine plans, workplace temperatures, fan pressures and volumes, and records of atmospheric monitoring. Maintain a record of all auxiliary and fans installed, send away for repairs and trace status and whereabouts of all fans.
11. Oversee the operation, calibration, maintenance, and fitness for purpose of ventilation monitoring instruments, gas detection equipment, self-rescuers, lamp room systems, main and auxiliary fans, standby fans, and related control devices used in underground operations.
12. Review and guide the selection, positioning, maintenance, and removal of ventilation infrastructure and controls, including auxiliary fans, regulators, and airways, to achieve required airflow and minimize leakage and friction losses.
13. Support mine emergency preparedness by maintaining regular engagement with Mine Rescue organizations and site leadership, verifying readiness of ventilation-related emergency systems, refuge chambers, fire safety controls, drills, and evacuation arrangements, and incorporating learnings into standards and procedures.
14. Ensure ventilation defects, abnormal atmospheric conditions, and non-conformances are reported promptly to relevant site and Group leadership, properly documented, dated, signed, investigated, and closed out in accordance with statutory and Company requirements.
15. Monitor competence and training compliance for ventilation officers, supervisors, and workers operating in confined spaces or ventilation-critical environments, and support capability development across the Group.
16. Provide ventilation-related technical input to design studies, industrial facility planning, mine expansions, new mine layouts, and due diligence assessments for acquisitions or development opportunities, and carry out other related duties as assigned by the line manager.
17. Fire safety control in accordance with current regulations and do regular inspections on Refuge chambers underground and report on deviations to Mine Management.

Qualification requirements:
Higher professional education in a relevant discipline such as mining, mechanical, or other engineering sciences. A bachelor’s degree in Mining or Mechanical Engineering is preferred. Additional formal training or certification in Mine Environmental Control or Mine Ventilation is highly desirable.
Work experience:
At least 10 years of relevant experience in mine ventilation engineering within an underground mining environment, including practical exposure to occupational hygiene and atmospheric hazard control.

Languages: fluent English
Knowledge of processes (occupational field):
Strong knowledge of mine ventilation principles, standards, and technical documentation, including ventilation design, airflow calculations, contaminant control, and ventilation schemes for underground mines and associated industrial facilities.

Knowledge of IS (information systems):
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience with Ventsim is strongly preferred. Familiarity with mining software such as Deswik, Datamine, or other mine CAD systems is advantageous for reviewing and interpreting digital mine layouts. Exposure to the use of drone-based cavity scans and gas detection technologies would be an advantage.

Chief Ventilation and Occupational Health Engineer | Group Level

Казахстан, Алматы, Dostyk Ave 85A/1

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KAZ Minerals

Алматы