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Wend-Kuuni Fabou Emmanuel OUEDRAOGO

SENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER
Ouagadougou

Summary

Proficient Drill and blast Engineer with good knowledge of mine engineering: mine production, mine planning, geology and rock mechanic.

Drill and Blast Engineer knowledgeable about safety standards, field assessments, drilling and blasting operations. Proven experienced in drilling and blasting contractors managing and operation procedure establishment.

Excellent understanding of Drill and blast budget preparation and control.

Focus toward operation and cost optimization to achieved company objectives.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

SENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER-Head of Section

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
HOUNDE
10.2021 - Current
  • Responsibilities

Ensure objectives are achieved in timeframe and safely.

Operations procedures monitoring and review.

Ensure efficient control on physicals and cost budget.

Provide the strategy to contractors on quarterly and monthly basis.

Monitor contractor performance and contract requirements.

Monitor operations quality and produced detailed report.

  • Achievements

Drilling mesh optimization by material type

Blasting energy distribution optimization.

Overall cost reduction by 5%.

Achieved better wall control by introducing Opitdev tools for angle holes measurement and correction.

SENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation, Mining-Engineering
HOUNDE
07.2019 - 10.2021

Responsibilities

  • Drill and blast activities
  • Drill and blast schedule and yearly budget
  • Short term and medium term mining schedule
  • Production and site report
  • Month end reconciliation(drilling, blasting and mined quantities)
  • Optimization about drill and blast results and cost
  • Optimization of mining sequencing

Achievements

  • Managing drilling fleet of 16 rig and 2 MMU of 15 tons.
  • Build and train QAQC team of 16 overlooking of daily activities.

MINING ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
HOUNDE
11.2017 - 06.2019

Responsibilities

  • Design blast master for all pits activities
  • Design, implement pattern and follow up on QAQC
  • Responsible of end of month reconciliation with drill and blast contractors.
  • Site daily report
  • Managing production database and dispatch section
  • Pit and dump design
  • Mining schedule(short and medium term)

Achievements

  • Built comprehensive blast master which is being used for drill and blast activities
  • Designed pit at Hounde which is currently being implemented
  • Analyzed different scenarios of drill patterns to reduced drill and blast cost by 5%
  • Database improvement
  • Assist in mining sequence improvement

JUNIOR MINING ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
HOUNDE
09.2017 - 10.2017

Responsibilities

  • Site daily report
  • Dispatch section supervising
  • Trained data clerk on efficient using of database.
  • Trained pit controller on field managing such as non-effective time reducing.

Achievements

  • 3 data clerks promoted to Pit Controller position.

PIT CONTROLLER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
HOUNDE
04.2017 - 09.2017

Responsibilities

  • Mining equipment coordination
  • Collaborate with production team in order to achieve target
  • Train junior pit controller
  • Use of availability improvement

Achievements

  • Use of availability increase from 70% to 82%
  • Overall fuel consumption reduced by 3%
  • 4 junior Pit controller promoted to full Pit Controller level

PIT CONTROLLER

Aveng Moolmans, Production
TAPARKO
06.2016 - 04.2017

Responsibilities

  • Data compilation and analysis
  • End of month reconciliation with client
  • Mining area schedule as required by client
  • Database improvement
  • Data clerk level up

Achievements

  • Implement new database reducing data capture and report by 15%

Education

International For Water And Environmental Engineer
Burkina Faso
01.2012 - 02.2016

Skills

    Leadership

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Accomplishments

    Paper elected by AUSIMM for Open Pit Operators Conference 2021

    TITLE

    MINE TO MILL STUDY: BOND WORK INDEX AS A FACTOR FOR INTRUSIVE AND NON INTRUSIVE ROCK TYPE.


Certification

International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering: Technological Bachelor in Mining and Quarries

Software

Microsoft Office

Surpac

Shot Plus

Opitblast

Vulcan_Drill and Blast module

Timeline

SENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER-Head of Section

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
10.2021 - Current

SENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation, Mining-Engineering
07.2019 - 10.2021

MINING ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
11.2017 - 06.2019

JUNIOR MINING ENGINEER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
09.2017 - 10.2017

PIT CONTROLLER

Hounde Gold Operation-ENDEAVOUR MINING
04.2017 - 09.2017

PIT CONTROLLER

Aveng Moolmans, Production
06.2016 - 04.2017

International For Water And Environmental Engineer
01.2012 - 02.2016

International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering: Technological Bachelor in Mining and Quarries

Efficient Blasting Techniques and Wall Control Blasting

Driving licence ABC

Wend-Kuuni Fabou Emmanuel OUEDRAOGOSENIOR DRILL AND BLAST ENGINEER