ASHISH KUMAR THAKUR

Experience

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  Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta Resources Plc.)

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2016

  Position: Medium term Mine Planning Engineer (Kayad UG Mines): Preparation of Mine Development & Production business plans according to yearly schedule. Develop long term ventilation strategy for mine site with ventilation engineers/long term planners Preparation of all mining related development plans and associated documentation for approval and distribution. Technically support to D & B engineers for ring designs, firing plans, slot designs, service holes designs, vent and escape way raise designs, broken stocks management and CMS reconciliation. Coordination, and deliberations with Technical Consultants like CIMFR, ISM, SRK and AMC Australia to convey the requirements and to extract the desired design, model, etc. Update short term schedule with reconciled survey data (monthly). Identify key constraints and trigger dates in mine schedule. Reconciliation and review of development and stope designs. Liaison with all stake holders and shift engineers (Operations). Economic assessment of action plans. Monthly Budget updates and cost control. Depletion of working resource model with reconciled as-builts. Liaison with long term planning engineers and Resource geologists to coordinate long term plan. Training & Mentoring of mining engineers. Show less Mining Engineer, working for a leading Mining & Metal multinational in new developing Underground Lead-Zinc Mine below the operating Open-Pit Mine within same ore-body. Presently, a Mine Planning Engineer, responsible for short term as well as medium term Mine Planning even assisting with long term as well. I have working proficiency in AutoCad '07 '10 '13, DataMine Studio 3D, VentSim Visual 3.0 & Rhinoceros 5.0. My role and responsibility as Mine Planning Engineer are:-- Basic Mine Designing & Mine Infrastructure Designing.- Preparation of different types of plan (i.e. Ventilation Plan, Dewatering Plan).- Preparations of plans and sections for different levels and working areas and for statutory permissions.- Reconciliation of Weekly, Monthly & Annual Plan.- Production scheduling and forecasting for sequential operation.- Preparation of Drill & Blast Design.- Identification of key challenges to achieve business plan, communicate to team with mitigation plan.- Organizing, analyzing, maintaining & reporting the data collected from different sources.- Planning, scheduling and monitoring of production drilling & Stoping Cycle.- Preparing & monitoring the LOMP, Annual, Quarterly, Monthly and Weekly rolling plan.- Preparation of statutory permission files (DGMS & IBM).- Quality Assurance & Process Enhancement.- Preparation of scope of work for finalizing contract, estimation of equipment and Manpower cost.- Process Improvement Projects.- Short term Ventilation Planning using Ventsim Visual 3.0.- Ventilation Network design assistance in long term Ventilation Planning by mesh and tree networking and simulation of quantity as per 5 yr and 10 yr mine plan. Show less

  • Mine Planning Engineer

    Dec 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Engineer (Mines)

    Aug 2013 - Nov 2015

  • Graduate Engineer Trainee (Mines)

    Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
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  B.K.B. Transport Ltd.

  Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

  Assistant Manager - Mining

  In this assignment, I was trusted with the responsibility of Operations Incharge for thecompany. My company was engaged by Damodar Valley Corporation, BermoMines as a contractor for OB removal and Coal Production.Key Roles and Responsibilities:- Activity Monitoring & Schedule Planning- Responsible for waste excavation & production- Quality Control, Machinery management & Manpower management- Liaising with management to achieve productivity improvement targets- Ensure safe working practices- Monthly reconciliation & reporting- Liaising with maintenance team and scheduling maintenance activity Show less

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  National Institute for Smart Government

  Apr 2018 - Jun 2022

  Program Management Consultant - DMFT-PMKKKY (Jharkhand) || Ministry of Mines
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  PwC India

  Jul 2022 - now

  Senior Associate