Mining Engineer Interview | Chris

Chris is a senior mining engineer working for a large-sized resource extraction firm, specifically in the underground hard-rock gold mining industry. He graduated from university 6 years ago, and like many mining engineers now works on rotation. This involves flying to remote mines to evaluate and improve operations, typically 2-weeks on and 2-weeks off. In this interview we chat about what mining engineering entails, the best and worst parts of it, expectations vs reality of the career, and general advice for interested students. 0:00 Introduction 1:51 Best and worst parts of mining engineering 6:49 What does an average day look like 9:09 Advice to students considering mining engineering 10:06 Differences between expectations and reality of mining engineering 11:26 What makes mining engineering design complicated 13:05 Resources for students to learn more about mining engineering