Tushar Bhandarkar

Safety-focused Mining Engineer with 6+ years of experience as Production Drill and Blast Engineer in India's highly mechanized hard rock underground mine. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situation to best enhance the organizational brand. Innovative and detailed to quickly identify risks and develop solutions.

Deputy Manager - Drilling & Blasting - AAC Mining Executors Group - Bhilwara, Rajasthan

(2025-01)

• Supervise and coordinate all drilling, charging, and blasting operations, ensuring alignment with production schedules, design specifications, and safety standards.
• Develop and maintain shift rosters for drilling and blasting teams to ensure continuous operation with optimal manpower utilization.
• Enforce a strong safety culture through regular Tool Box Talks (TBTs), safety drives, incident investigations, and briefings on recent incidents and safety upgrades.
• Maintain accurate records of attendance, daily progress, explosive inventory, and site meterage for operational transparency and compliance tracking.
• Improve blast crew productivity by ensuring timely measurement of drilled holes, effective data sharing, and efficient material and resource handling.
• Monitor equipment condition and coordinate preventive maintenance to ensure reliability of drilling and blasting machinery.
• Manage explosive usage records, charging plans, drill designs, and statutory files in compliance with DGMS and other regulatory bodies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical or operational challenges in drilling and blasting activities to minimize delays and ensure production continuity.

Drill & Blast Engineer - AAC Mining Executors Group - Bhilwara, Rajasthan

(2020-01 - 2025-01)

• Monitor drilling operations and machines.
• Explain Drill pattern design to longhole drill operators
• Ensure charging blasting with high-tech explosives, such as emulsion and electronic detonators as per initiation designs for all blasts
• Optimize the drill & blast cycle according to ore requirement
• Discuss with planning team on short term planning and stope scheduling
• Develop positive and strong working relationship with the crew members

Graduate Mining Engineer - Barminco - Bhilwara, Rajasthan

(2019-01 - 2020-01)

• Implemented modernized safety practices in mining operation
• Planned shift operations, supervised and communicated status to shift crew to achieve daily targets
• Tested air to detect toxic gases and extended services to provide fresh air
• Used Microsoft Excel and Word to create database documents to maintain DSR & fleet summary

Mine Foreman Trainee - MOIL Limited - Nagpur, Maharashtra

(2018-01 - 2019-01)

Bachelors of Engineering - Mining Engineering - Gondwana University (2014-01 - 2017-01)

Diploma Engineering - Mining & Mine Surveying - Vivekanand Polytechnic Institute (2011-01 - 2014-01)