Ahmed Badran

Skilled Mining Engineer with more than 9 years of experience in the mining industry, seeking a challenging position to apply expertise in exploration, planning, and operations.

Mining Engineer (Shift Operation Supervisor) at Riyadh cement company (2025-02 – Present)

Maintain a safe work environment by conducting site inspections, performing hazard assessments, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations and environmental compliance.

• Schedule short-term, medium-term, and long-term mine plans in alignment with plant production requirements, and coordinate quarry operations, including drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, crushing, and transportation, to achieve the target production and quality needed for the plant.
• Monitored contractor performance and optimized rented equipment used to reduce operating costs.
• Develop drilling patterns and explosive charge plans to ensure fragmentation size meets crusher feed requirements.
• Collaborate with the quality laboratory to maintain stable quality and manage quarry stockpiles and pre-blending systems.
• Monitoring fuel and oil consumption and planning efficient haul routes to reduce cycle time and cost, improve equipment utilization, and reduce idle time.
• Working closely with the raw mill, kiln, and laboratory teams to ensure continuous availability of suitable limestone and corrective materials.
• Conduct hazard analysis, risk assessments, and toolbox talks for the crew.

Mining Engineer (Drilling Supervisor) at Golden Compass (2024-01 – 2024-09)

Assist geologists in defining drill targets based on geological models and resource targets, and prepare project schedules, manpower plans, and equipment requirements.

• Supervised drilling operations with safety, quality, and technical standards and coordinated workflow to meet project deadlines.
• Communicating with geologists, following up on logging, geotechnical, and sampling work, and assisting in data entry (collar, survey, lithology, and assay) and preparing necessary reports.
• Collaborating with geologists to analyze drilling data, lithology logs, core recovery, and geotechnical parameters, and participating in resource estimation by providing mining-related parameters.
• Prepare technical reports on daily drilling performance, cost summaries, and progress productivity, and attend client meetings.
• Oversee the maintenance and repair of drilling equipment, minimizing downtime and operational costs.
• Ensure all safety policies and rules are applied at the rig site by conducting regular drilling site inspections.

Mining Engineer (Planning and Operation Engineer) at Global United Mines Co (2019-12 – 2023-12)

• Assist in preparing scoping and pre-feasibility study inputs (production targets, facilities, infrastructure, mining methods, and cost assumptions).
• Coordinate with geologists to validate exploration data and follow up on logging, geotechnical, and sampling work, and assist in data entry and reports.
• Supervise drilling, trenching, and test pitting and work with geologists to define ore body geometry, thickness, overburden, and quality variations.
• Evaluate assay results, particle size, and prepare block model and resource estimation models.
• Design pit layouts, bench heights, haul roads, and stockpile areas, and optimize production schedule to meet plant feed specifications
• Develop short-term and long-term mine plans, define equipment requirements, and prepare manpower.
• Oversee daily mining operations, drilling and blasting, loading and hauling, dozing, crushing, and screening.

Mining Engineer (Drilling and blasting) at Mining Gate Co (2016-10 – 2019-01)

• Design of drilling patterns and solve problems during daily drilling.
• Calculate explosive requirements and charging parameters for various rock types.
• Optimize blast designs to achieve desired fragmentation, wall control, and minimize cost.
• Lead and conduct daily toolbox meetings to discuss priorities, safety topics, and operational updates, ensuring a cohesive and informed workforce.
• Monitoring contractors and rented equipment performance to maximize productivity and reduce cost.
• Prepare daily and weekly reports for drilled holes, explosives used, drilling meters, blasting performance, and provide input to monthly production and cost reports.
• Ensure cleanup of drill patterns to maintain safe access for drillers, blasters, and bulk trucks.

B.Sc. in Mining Engineering – Suez University (2016 – 2016)