Ljiljana Josic

Ljiljana Josic

5 articles
Canada AtkinsRealis

Biography

Ms. Ljiljana Josic is a Senior Director Tailings, Water, and Geotechnical Engineering/ Principal Geotechnical Engineer with over 25 years of experience in an engineering consulting environment, research and academic work. Her areas of expertise include geo-environmental engineering including geotechnical, environmental and hydrogeology. Ms. Josic has been involved in many projects that include geotechnical site investigation, foundation analyses and design, dam design and staged construction on soft foundation, design of tailings, waste rock and sludge disposal facilities, preparation of tender documents, tailings deposition planning, site characterization study of abandoned tailings facilities, mine closure planning, open pit slope design recommendation, etc. Ms. Josic has worked on projects which entail slope stability assessment (soil and rock), settlement analysis, stress and deformation analyses of earth structures, ground water seepage evaluation, and other numerical analyses and modelling. She has been project manager/technical lead for many domestic mining projects and international mining projects, including projects in Tanzania, Pakistan, Russia, Morocco, Madagascar, Venezuela, USA, Brazil, Guyana, Dominican Republic, etc. This involves more than 50 such projects domestically and internationally in a variety of geologic settings environment, and climatic conditions including cold region and permafrost, high rainfall and arid climates, active seismic regions, tropical soil in Africa and South America, etc. She has undertaken technical assignments for projects ranging in size from less than $100k to greater than $1B. In the last 20 years, her work has concentrated on assignments as a project manager, discipline lead, external auditor, and department head managing multidisciplinary teams. Ms. Josic is certified TSM External Verifier/Auditor at Mining Association of Canada (MAC). She also participated in Tailings Review Board on the projects in Venezuela and Tanzania. Ms Josic has been involved in projects that include engagement and interaction with the public, regulatory bodies, Indigenous Communities and other stakeholders.

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Mine Waste Management-Development of Design Options
Ljiljana Josic AtkinsRealis
Mine Waste Impoundment Technical Session Video
Mine Waste Design
CIM 2023 Convention Montreal
Supporting Sustainability in Mine Waste Management by Satellite Technology
Ljiljana Josic AtkinsRealis
Tailings Management Technical Session
Climate Risk Advancements in Mine Waste
CIM Connect 2024 Vancouver
Engineer of Record (EoR) and Designer of Record (DoR) Emerging New Relations in the Regulatory Framework for the Mine Waste Management
Hafeez Baba ATKINSREALIS INC.
Ljiljana Josic AtkinsRealis
Henri Sangam SNC-Lavalin.com
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement in Mining Technical Session Attachment
International Standards and Regulatory Affairs
CIM Connect 2024 Vancouver
Engagement & Communication of Technical Information – Highlights on Tailings & Risk
Karen Chovan CI-RiskDB by Enviro
Alistair Kent Merit Consultants International.
Lynnel Reinson Lynnel Reinson Communications Ltd
Ljiljana Josic AtkinsRealis
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Short Course
CIM Connect 2024 Vancouver
Tailings Dewatering – Key Design Decisions
Ljiljana Josic AtkinsRealis
Technical Session
Innovation and Best Practice in Tailings Managements: Tailings Options & Improvements
CIM CONNECT 2025 Montréal