These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current mining engineer job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Mining Engineer
  • Senior Mining Engineer
  • Mine Planning Engineer
  • Open Pit Engineer
  • Underground Mining Engineer
  • Geotechnical Engineer (Mining)
  • Rock Mechanics Engineer
  • Drill and Blast Engineer
  • Resource Geologist
  • Resource Estimation Geologist
  • Mine Geologist
  • Ventilation Engineer
  • Production Supervisor (Mining)

Mine planning — open pit

  • Vulcan
  • Maptek Vulcan
  • Whittle
  • Geovia Whittle
  • Deswik
  • Datamine
  • Studio OP
  • MineSight
  • Hexagon MinePlan
  • pit optimisation
  • pit shell
  • LoM plan
  • production schedule
  • haulage
  • TMM
  • total material movement

Mine planning — underground

  • Deswik
  • Studio 3
  • PCBC
  • block caving
  • SLOS
  • sublevel open stoping
  • cut and fill
  • sublevel caving
  • room and pillar
  • stope design
  • extraction sequence
  • ground support
  • cable bolt
  • rockbolt
  • shotcrete

Geological modelling

  • Leapfrog Geo
  • Leapfrog Edge
  • Seequent
  • Surpac
  • Vulcan
  • implicit modelling
  • wireframe
  • geological interpretation
  • lithological modelling
  • fault modelling
  • resource estimation

Geostatistics

  • ordinary kriging
  • OK
  • inverse distance weighting
  • IDW
  • variography
  • variogram
  • SMU
  • selective mining unit
  • block model
  • conditional simulation
  • P10/P50/P90
  • cut-off grade
  • grade shell

Geotechnical

  • Rocscience
  • Phase2
  • RS2
  • Slide2
  • DIPS
  • Unwedge
  • RocFall
  • FLAC
  • FLAC3D
  • Itasca
  • 3DEC
  • factor of safety
  • FoS
  • slope stability
  • rock mass classification
  • RMR
  • Q-system
  • GSI
  • RQD
  • kinematic analysis
  • wedge analysis
  • in-situ stress

Drill and blast

  • Orica
  • BlastIQ
  • Dyno Nobel
  • blast design
  • burden
  • spacing
  • powder factor
  • stemming
  • delay
  • initiation
  • bench height
  • fragmentation

Resource/reserve reporting

  • JORC
  • JORC 2012
  • NI 43-101
  • CIM
  • PERC
  • Competent Person
  • CP
  • CIM
  • mineral resource
  • ore reserve
  • measured
  • indicated
  • inferred
  • proved
  • probable
  • cut-off grade
  • reporting standard
  • material disclosure

Commodity

  • gold
  • copper
  • iron ore
  • coal
  • lithium
  • nickel
  • zinc
  • silver
  • lead
  • bauxite
  • PGMs
  • diamonds
  • potash
  • aggregates
  • hard rock
  • soft rock

Professional credentials

  • IOM3
  • MIMMM
  • FIMMiM
  • CEng
  • SME
  • AIG (Australian Institute of Geoscientists)
  • AusIMM (Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy)

Long-tail phrases

  • mining engineer resume
  • mining engineer cv
  • how to write a mining engineer resume
  • mining engineer resume 2026
  • open pit mining engineer resume
  • underground mining engineer resume
  • JORC Competent Person resume
  • resource estimation resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Mining Engineer resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.