Job Description:

• This role is responsible for ensuring that the plant process operates effectively to produce the quality and quantity of metals planned, with a time frame of 1-2 years accountability. Coordinates labour, equipment and services as required for the role. The role has the legal accountability with a 2.6.1 appointment in terms of the MHSA in smaller plants.

Responsibilities:

• Assist Concentrator Manager develop annual budget for plant sections
• Production targets focused on controllable variables not inputs
• Ensure that plant section operates in a sustainable manner
• Implementation of applicable Safety, Regulations, The Act, Codes of practice and standards
• Review safety, injury, hazard, risk and incident reports – plan of action
• Develop and maintain site specific standards, codes of practices, systems and procedures in accordance with guidelines and the Act.
• Identify key performance shortfalls and gaps, and critical improvement areas.
• Manage performance of direct production staff
• Take corrective action to daily/weekly/monthly targets to achieve weekly/monthly/quarterly targets
• Ensure availability, and allocate production resources (people, materials, money) across all shifts
• Tactical plans for implementation of plant goals and objectives
• Operate the plant daily within recipe and guidelines
• Take corrective action to shift targets to achieve daily targets
• Set support service requirements
• Achieve production targets
• Develop concentrators plant annual budget
• Manage adhoc medium to long term projects to align with the concentrator ambitions
• This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to the Manager Concentrators.

Qualifications:

• Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Metallurgy degree

Experience

• At least five years post graduate qualification experience relevant for the role

Knowledge and Skills

• Good technical ability
• Knowledge of the best utilization/business applications of management and plant processing
• Computer skills for role including Business systems e.g. SAP
• A management development programme
• Good technical understanding of Process control systems
• SHE systems management
• Management systems implementation and maintenance thereof.
• Process improvement experience