Mine Planning Engineer (Graduate) practice interview
Basic pit and production planning, design inputs, schedule trade-offs, data checks and communication with mining teams. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Entry
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This is an early-career mine planning interview focused on the logic behind safe, practical production plans. The panel wants you to understand key design inputs, check quantities carefully, respond to operating constraints and explain your assumptions without pretending to have senior-level experience.
How to prepare
- Review how geology, geotechnical limits, haul access and equipment capacity shape a mine plan.
- Practise checking tonnes and volumes with clear units, assumptions and simple calculations.
- Revise the purpose of short-term schedules, mining blocks, benches and haul routes.
- Prepare a project example where new information forced you to revise a design.
- Be ready to explain how you validate output from unfamiliar planning software.
Common mistakes
- Focusing on production volume while ignoring safe access and design constraints.
- Trusting a software result without checking units, boundaries or assumptions.
- Giving a fixed plan when the scenario clearly requires an operational trade-off.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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