 Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of A Day in the Life of a Mining Engineer. Today I have with us here, Biontika Menurang, who is from Indonesia and so today she will take us through some of our experiences as a mining engineer. So Biontika, can you first start us off with a little bit of introduction about yourself, so where you work, your job title, and your education background? Okay, hi everyone. My name is Biontika. I'm from Indonesia. I'm currently a global trainee at Vali. I was studying mining engineering from Suija University. It's in Indonesia. Yeah, that's the sort of introduction. All right, right on. So can you take us through a day in the life of a mining engineer and it might even be a week because I know as mining engineers we do a lot of different stuff depending on what production needs from us. Yeah, so my day-to-day work I'm currently as a global trainee. So there's like a 50% working with the other global trainee from Canada and also Brazil and but I also have like a work in Vali Indonesia specifically in mine department in midterm planning. So let's just discuss about my global trainee day-to-day work first. In global training we're having like a multidisciplinary project so they give us like a project consisting of like eight engineers, not all engineers, eight global trainees. So my current project about the social progress programs through supply chain. So hopefully it can be implemented next year in Indonesia, Canada, Mozambique and other countries where Vali operating right now. Also for my day-to-day work in midterm planning engineer in mine department I'm working with the specific midterm planning but I also having like a small project in my themes. It is like to count like the quantities of grader we have right now. Is it enough or not to maintain the road, the MHR, the main road track now we have in Vali. So we're just having this small project to by considering the rainfall statistics and also the PA and also UOA of grader then make like a sort of calculations. Do we need to add a more hour grader for maintaining the road or the numbers of grader we have right now is enough or not. So that's our project I'm running right now. Okay so if I understood correctly you do both engineering work and supply chain work. Is that correct? Wow that's very interesting. I've never heard of a program like that. So can you also tell us a little bit about what's your favorite part about your job? I think my favorite part I'll be more specifically about the global training things. I think I really like mining. There's a reason why it took like a mining as my undergraduate degree but the positive thing that I really like about my job right now is that I can work with the other department which is the supply chain management teams. So it's like especially about the social burgers you know mining has like a lot of impact to the environments society and also the locals. Not all about the positive impact like giving the economic benefit and all stuff but also negative impact on environments and many negative impact. I think it's kind of balancing my life right now. I'm working in midterm planning but at the same time I'm also working with the social progress project. So the concept of that social progress project is giving the impact to the local people. So I think that's my favorite part like I'm doing the work. I'm currently on mining but at the same time empowering the local. So that's one of my favorites. Yeah that sounds like very an amazing program where you get to have impact as well to the community. Can you also talk to us a bit about what sort of software you use whether it's in your engineering part of work or your supply chain part of work? Yeah for the mining we are using Svulkan for software. So with the midterm planning there's like a design D. So for your information in violin in Asia we have like an open pit mining so it's different with the violin Canada. I think violin Canada is an underground mining so we use a lot with these full can application MMS applications for the heavy equipment allocations we use that and also we use like a I think yeah the biggest application to the major application we use right now it's only full can and also MMS specifically for the midterm planning for the supply chain. I don't think we have like a specific applications in a supply chain because there's more like interactions between the locals and also while in Indonesia so that's not using like any software. I see and for the global training program are you going to do any rotations to different positions? Yeah so they're kind of a different situation we face right now. Currently we have for the global training they implement in Brazil Canada and Indonesia. So we have like eight trainees in Canada and two trainees in Indonesia and I think like 100 trainees in Brazil. For 110 in Brazil they're having these rotations as an example like three months in mining then three months in HR, three months in supply chain and move again geology and all stuff but in Canada and so in Indonesia we are not having that rotations to the other departments but we only having like rotation within our something related to our background. It's an example I'm coming from mining engineering so I only have rotations like I go to long-term planning then I move again to mid-term planning then I move again to certain planning but for now that's the rotation we have but I don't know this is a coronavirus impact. We actually should go to Brazil next January 2021 but I'm not pretty sure like there's no guarantee so far because of the coronavirus. I see but that's good that you still have a wider range of exposure to different parts of the mine planning cycle and for our last question do you have any advice to aspiring mining engineers or people who are thinking about going into mining engineering? That's a good question. I actually my first job actually not in mining. After graduating from like a from my undergraduate degree I moved to the state but they just like having like a sort program in the US then after go back again to Indonesia I worked as a business development in a Zendis so they kind of feel like company from Zili can follow it so I think that's not my first job in mining but what I could suggest to everyone as a young engineers maybe like during your study at university maybe just try to explore your patients just really know like what you are into as an example you if you really like like debating club go through it if you really like like a science club go join science club if you really like mining competition just go to mining competition I mean like during university life there's a conference done for us there's a set zone for us so you can explore as many things as possible because after you graduate from your university the change where you do the trial and error is like fairly limited so if you jump into the mining right away you just need to focus on that afterwards so I think just in case like if you already graduated so my suggestion would be more like beside explore your patient is they can like do not offer it to say that I don't know because maybe like some of us really not really afraid to be claim as a stupid person when they answer like I don't know about something so if you really don't know about something just say like you don't know can you teach me about this because I do that a lot in my department right now if I don't understand about something I'm not gonna act like I'm a smart person so I'm gonna say it's like I don't understand this can you teach me then people are gonna teach you so I think in your job especially the first job is very okay to not know a lot of things so I think that's my suggestion everyone awesome two pieces of awesome advice before we let you go do you want to give the viewers sort of a sort of a plug about yourself any special projects that you're working on or where they can find and contact you do you make contact yeah sure I think you guys can approach me in my link in it's beyond tika manuru also I dropped my email there as well if you have if you have any questions related to global training at valet you can also drop my questions there and I can connect you as well to my friends from global trainee canada and also global trainee brazil if you're coming from that countries awesome well beyond tika thank you very much for this interview