Esperanza Mae Rosagaran
Talisay City
Summary
A highly motivated and experienced
Mining Engineer with 10 years of
experience in the mining industry and a
performance-driven professional looking
to work in a challenging and creative
environment that encourages self-development
and productivity.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Services Engineer
Orica Philippines, Inc.
10.2022 - Current
- Prepare and audit drill and blast designs, ensuring efficiency and adherence to safety standards
- Identifies customer needs and business development opportunities
- Analyze blast measurements and assess performance against baseline
- Develops case studies, product application stewardship
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges related to drill and blast operations
- Responsible for setting up database for drilling performance reports to monitor utilization, availability, penetration rate, etc.
- Established blast domain for drill and blast optimization, delivering better quality blasting results, and management of blast design
- Trains and mentors Shotfirers
Blasting Engineer
Orica Philippines, Inc.
11.2021 - 10.2022
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize drilling and blasting processes
- Conduct technical assessments and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
- Managing advanced blasting-related projects on customer sites by using Orica's full suite of advanced and cutting-edged blasting systems and technologies
- Leading a team in supporting Orica's first Rock on Ground (ROG) project in the Philippines
- Manage a safe and healthy work environment where the team can deliver their outputs within a controlled-risk environment
- Train and prepare individuals who have to obtain a blaster's license to ensure knowledge transfer and statutory compliance and to help them achieve the desired level of competence in their role
- Incorporate costing into the drill and blast parameters to ensure the target operating margin is achieved.
Mining Engineer
FCF Minerals Corporation
08.2021 - 11.2021
- Implement and coordinate mine safety programs
- Set up a blast domain to achieve the required fragmentation in ore and waste and optimize drill and blast performance at a minimum cost
- Preparation of blast master utilizing Surpac
- Preside over toolbox meetings to promote knowledge sharing among the team and strong health and safety awareness in the workplace
- Prepare blasting scheme for PPME processing based on the mining schedule to ensure explosives stocks are maintained on-site.
Junior Mining Engineer
FCF Minerals Corporation
09.2020 - 08.2021
- Monitor and review data from drilling, explosives loading, and blasting to generate daily and weekly reports
- Assess and evaluate drill and blast actual performance for refinement of the design based on short and medium-term plans
- Responsible for carrying out detailed drill and blast design work based on short and medium-term plans and identify opportunities to improve production outcomes
- Ensure compliance with safety policies, procedures, and system is a priority
- Liaise with operations team to ensure compliance with short and medium- term plans
- Set-up and maintain drill and blast data database
- Provide weekly fragmentation report using Wipfrag
- Schedule drill and blast activities to meet daily and weekly production targets
- Manage explosives inventory to maintain sufficient stocks without exceeding the allowable magazine storage capacity
- Monitor drill and blast cost (actual vs budget)
- Preparation of required regulatory reports.
Cost Engineer
FCF Minerals Corporation
08.2017 - 09.2020
- Develop and implement requirements for cost recording, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing
- Monitoring of actual site operating costs against the budget and generate monthly reports and trending data to identify the major cost drivers and implement programs for cost reduction
- Conduct data and statistical analysis to measure time deliverables to ensure profitability and adherence to business objectives
- Budget management and preparation
- Review the monthly billing of mining contractors and assist the mining team in tracking and reviewing their actual costs weekly to ensure their costs are within the budget
- Assist the mining team by providing cost benefit analysis reports
- Facilitate in the implementation of Sage 300 site wide
- Validate the cost coding of site activities.
Cost Control Engineer
Delta Earthmoving, Inc.
10.2015 - 08.2017
- Monitor daily equipment utilization, production, material movement, and profit/loss
- Lead the mine planning and engineering team
- Prepare and consolidate the monthly technical report and analyze the overall performance of operations
- Responsible for billing production and services rendered to the client
- Supervise drilling and blasting operations and ensure compliance with design parameters in actual
- Manage quarry samples and prepare the daily blending ratio to meet the grade requirement of materials delivered
- Act as OIC in the absence of the Project Manager
- Monitor monthly slice plan against schedule
- Recommend strategies to operations team to optimize the operations at a minimal cost
- Review and check daily safety inspection checklist
- Prepare weekly operations report to identify activities which require improvement on mining productivity and cost reduction.
Technical Services Graduate Engineer
Orica Philippines, Inc.
05.2013 - 02.2015
- Prepare shotplans and loading scheme for every blast and provide post blast reports using Blasting softwares (Shotplus 5, Powersieve & BDA) to evaluate & analyze the blasting result
- Supervise blasting operation and present technical options to client to optimize blasting performance
- Perform QA/QC from hole sounding, explosives charging, surface connection & firing
- Assist client in determining drill & blast design parameters to optimize loading & hauling operation
- Prepare weekly blast report to client to identify areas for improvement & achieve a better blast result
- Participated in the trial of Electronic Blasting System (EBS) UT500 conducted at BAAC, Rizal.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mining Engineering
03.2013
Skills
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Analytical thinking
- Output-oriented and time management
- Oral and written communication
- Proficient in computer software (Shotplus, Surpac, MS Office, Powersieve, BDA, CyclePro, Laser Profiler, Sage 300, SAP, CyclePro, Agisoft, Emlid Reach and Wipfrag)
Affiliations
- Philippines Society of Mining Engineers - Caraga Chapter
- Philippines Society of Mining Engineers - Northern Luzon Chapter
Trainings And Seminars Attended
- Land Form and Progressive Rehabilitation using state of the art software modelling and Truck and Shovel Productivity using computerization modelling
- Safe and Efficient Blasting conducted at Limay, Bataan
- Clearance Training
- Basic Occupational Safety & Health Course
- DS Geovia Surpac Foundation and Drill & Blast Training
- Fire Safety
- Chemical Safety
- Fatigue Management
- Behavioral Based Safety
- Hot Works Training
- Incident Investigation
- Visual Felt Leadership (VFL)
- Lifting and Rigging
- Training the Virtual Trainers (Guthrie Jensen)
References
- Stephen A. Agdaca, Lead - Technical Services, Orica Philippines Inc.
- Ben Marclett Obra, Territory Manager - Surface Metals, Orica Philippines Inc.
- Albert Chan, Mine Operations Manager, FCF Minerals Corporation
Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Technical Services Engineer - Orica Philippines, Inc.
10.2022 - Current
Blasting Engineer - Orica Philippines, Inc.
11.2021 - 10.2022
Mining Engineer - FCF Minerals Corporation
08.2021 - 11.2021
Junior Mining Engineer - FCF Minerals Corporation
09.2020 - 08.2021
Cost Engineer - FCF Minerals Corporation
08.2017 - 09.2020
Cost Control Engineer - Delta Earthmoving, Inc.
10.2015 - 08.2017
Technical Services Graduate Engineer - Orica Philippines, Inc.
05.2013 - 02.2015
Cebu Institute of Technology - University - Bachelor of Science, Mining Engineering
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