Degree-qualified engineer with more than eight years acroos undergroung mining, processing plant and heavy industrial capital projects. Experienced establishing and maintaining cost breakdown structures aligned to project scope, monitoring commitments and accruals, and delivering monthly cost reports with trend and variance analysis to project and senior stakeholders. Track record reviewing and validating contractor claims and cost performance, assessing the cost impact of scope changes, risks and opportunities, and supporting gated engineering studies from conceptual through detailed design. Technical background in drill and blast design and software implementation for underground mining; geotechnical logging and geomechanical model development; mine planning and equipment fleet evaluation; mining project management; and productivity and cost engineering throughout mine, maintenance and plant departments. Postgraduate studies on mining systems, evaluation of ore deposits, mining planning, project management and mineral economics. Proficient in Deswik, MinePlan, I-Blast, ShotPlus, AutoCAD, CiteOps, SAP, Power BI, Primavera P6 and Python.