Pro practiceMine Planning Manager practice interview
Strategic and operational mine plans, schedule trade-offs, reserve delivery, cost control and planning team leadership. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This is a leadership interview about building mine plans that can be executed safely and economically. The panel will test how you integrate technical constraints, manage schedule trade-offs, respond to variance and lead planners while maintaining an independent technical view.
How to prepare
- Review an example where fleet, geotechnical or processing constraints changed your schedule.
- Prepare to explain how you connect long-term plans with monthly and weekly execution.
- Revise the measures you use to reconcile planned and actual mining performance.
- Think through how cut-off, sequencing and stockpiling decisions affect value and risk.
- Prepare an example of developing a planner or improving planning discipline.
Common mistakes
- Presenting an unconstrained schedule that ignores equipment, access or processing capacity.
- Focusing on production volume without discussing value, cost and operational risk.
- Blaming operations for variance without testing assumptions in the plan.
- Overlooking how planning standards, reviews and coaching affect schedule quality.
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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