Plant Metallurgist

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

METALLURGIST

Job Description:

• Assist the Plant Manager. This includes assistance in initiating continuous improvement projects aimed at meeting production budgets and ensuring plant readiness for LOM treatment profile.
• The Role of the Plant Metallurgist is to support the Metallurgical team through the Ore Processing engineer to deliver the required service to the Section Managers.

Key Result Areas:

• Assist in ensuring that legal, safety, environmental and hygiene standards are complied with and maintained within the area of responsibility.
• Assist in ensuring that all work is planned, scheduled, executed and monitored in accordance with short and long-term Ore Processing objectives, technical standards and procedures, and statutory requirements.
• Identification of improvement opportunities, business case development, Scoping and execution of approved improvement projects.
• Analyse relevant processing data for the allocated portion of the plant and in own area of responsibility, reporting and investigating barriers to effective quality performance, causes of delays and deviations, and assist in ensuring mitigating plans are prepared and implemented.
• Stakeholder management: liaison with maintenance, operational & support function personnel to implement plant optimisation projects.
• Supports Production Teams to achieve the target for tonnes treated within their section of responsibility.
• Supports Production Teams to achieve the target for carats recovered.
• Assist in managing all plant governance requirements - technical, operational and quality standards audits; and ensure compliance within their section of responsibility.
• Assist in ensuring a stable and sustainable plant performance within their section of responsibility.
• Updating of all relevant process documentation for the Treatment Plant.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 certificate or relevant NQF level 4 qualifications.
• BSc Engineering or B-Tech (Chemical Engineering or Metallurgy).

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience in a processing plant.
• LIMN modelling or Diamond wizard knowledge/experience will be an advantage.
• Power BI report building or use of Power Bi reports.
• Valid EB/Code 08 Driver''s License.
• Intimate knowledge of process flow in own area and general process flow of the plant.
• Successfully obtain a Red Ticket (Medical Fitness Certificate) for the plant environment.
• Your consideration for employment is subject to your SAPS Criminal Record verification and qualifications verification.
• Candidates will be required to undergo Psychometric Assessments.

Skills/ Competencies:

• Technical knowledge of mining operations with diamond processing plant experience.
• Analysing and interpreting information.
• Process modelling & simulation.
• Report writing.
• Presentations and Networking.
• Teamwork.
• Planning, coordinating and prioritising.
• Project management.
• Knowledge of SHHE policies, procedures and the important role of consistently demonstrating required behaviours and championing safety values.
• Problem-solving capability.

SPECIALIST TECHNICAL FLOATATION

Job Description:

• Deliver safety leadership and demonstrate Company values, with a focus on the safe design and operation of flotation plants.
• Provide technical input and support to operations and projects for process troubleshooting and the resolution of metallurgical problems in flotation plants.
• Lead investigations and coordinate the implementation of initiatives in collaboration with Operations for the optimisation of processes and delivering a step change in performance.
• Conduct operational performance analysis, systematic flotation process characterisation test work, and develop flotation process models.
• Lead the application of process mineralogy to the understanding and optimisation of flotation plants.
• Provide input to and validate the final selection of the Budget and LOM Terms of Reference and the use of geo-metallurgical recovery models.
• Provide oversight and assurance on Group governance policies, procedures and standards.
• Promote knowledge sharing and best practice transfer in flotation, and coordinate activities within a flotation community of practice.

Qualifications:

• A minimum undergraduate qualification (Bachelor''s / Honours degree or equivalent) in Metallurgy or Chemical Engineering
• Desirable: A postgraduate qualification (Master''s / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline
• Mineral processing industry experience in operational and/or technical roles.
• Experience in operating and providing technical support to flotation plants at a senior level.
• Track record of translating ideas into practical initiatives to be implemented and a demonstration of successful execution and delivery of Technical Improvement and Optimisation within a Mining context
• Familiar with process analysis and associated tools (ranging from Excel to mass and energy balance simulation software and modelling)
• Continuous improvement and process performance assessments.
• Modelling for process performance improvement & production planning.
• Processing plant data types, sources, systems, aggregation and integration.
• Mining value chain with processing plant detailed knowledge of the processing plant.
• Leading ideas generation and translating these into practical initiatives.
• Stakeholder engagement to enable aligned goals.
• Intermediate English skills (conversational intermediate skills)