General Manager: Comminution

SUMMARY:
We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established engineering organisation based in Spartan. The client operates within the mining and heavy engineering sector and is seeking an experienced General Manager to lead and grow its Comminution Division. This is a permanent, senior leadership role with full accountability for strategy, commercial performance, operations, and people leadership within the division.

POSITION INFO:

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide overall strategic leadership and direction for the Comminution Division, aligned with business objectives
• Drive revenue growth, profitability, and margin improvement across capital equipment, aftermarket, and ancillary products
• Deliver approved budgets, forecasts, and resource plans while maintaining disciplined cash flow and risk management
• Oversee sales strategy, tendering, pricing, and contract approval to ensure commercially sound and competitive offerings
• Lead market positioning through product development, localisation, innovation, and differentiation
• Provide engineering oversight across product design, application engineering, quality assurance, and ISO 9001 compliance
• Support and monitor project delivery to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to specification
• Act as senior escalation point for key customer, technical, or commercial issues
• Lead, mentor, and develop departmental managers and senior staff, driving performance and accountability
• Ensure compliance with legal, health and safety, environmental, and governance requirements
• Identify and mitigate operational, commercial, and technical risks within the division

Experience & Qualifications

• Engineering degree
• Business or management qualification advantageous
• Minimum of 7 years senior technical and leadership experience within the mining or heavy engineering sector
• Strong commercial, financial, contract, and risk management capability
• Proven experience leading capital equipment sales, tendering, and complex engineering projects
• Deep understanding of comminution equipment, applications, or similar heavy industrial products
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and drive strategic execution
• Valid driver’s licence and willingness to travel locally and internationally