Job Detail

Main Responsibility Areas Will Include:

• Metallurgy Planning and Management
• Metallurgy Optimisation and Improvement
• Manage the Capital Program for the Metallurgical and Technical Section
• Capacity development
• Health & Safety Management

Metallurgy Planning and Management :

• Manage metallurgical resources effectively to maximize throughput and metal recovery, while maintaining the cost-effectiveness of the plant operation.
• Develop budgets/forecasts and cost models to accurately predict production and operating costs and set up a system to measure performance against the models.
• Lead the metallurgical accounting process and guarantee proper accounting and reporting of gold content extracted from the ore, that is fed into the plant.
• Generate production management reports (weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc).
• Develop plans/recovery plans to guarantee that budgeted production is achieved.
• Coordinate metallurgical activities with the production and maintenance team
• Implement, develop and maintain metallurgical systems.
• Manage the Management Operating System (MOS) for the Metallurgy section on the processing plant.

Metallurgy Optimisation and Improvement :

• Investigate unusual occurrences in the plant and make recommendations to prevent recurrence.
• Identify opportunities, improve efficiencies, product quality, and reduce costs, as part of the Full Potential program.
• Troubleshoot process operating problems and institute corrective measures.

Manage the Capital Program for the Metallurgical and Technical Section :

• Act as an Authorisation for Expenditure (AFE) Manager for sustaining capital to verify;
• timeliness in Submission of AFEs.
• quality of Submitted AFEs.
• timeliness of capital expenditure.
• Act as a Cost Center Manager with sustaining capital;
• sustain capital expenditure will be within set target ranges, adjusted for changes in planning assumptions and decisions.
• Act as an AFE Manager with a closed project to verify:
• prompt closing out of projects.
• project deliverables have been met.

 Capability Development :

• Implement key operating parameters for the plant and initiate systems by which these parameters can be monitored and maintained by the team.
• Oversee and certify the metallurgical team consisting of plant metallurgists, metallurgists, technicians .
• Provide technical input for departmental training programs.
• Provide technical and practical solutions to operational challenges faced by the team.
• Initiate effective on-the-job training and coaching to verify employees gain new skills and achieve their maximum potential.

Health and Safety Management :

• Review and improve standards and safe operating procedures for all metallurgical tasks (both metallurgy laboratory and field works).
• Provide hands-on assistance during operations activities and certify that safe work practices are followed.
• Check all assigned safety-related KPIs are completed in a timely manner .
• Attend monthly safety inspection meetings.
• Conduct and complete incident/accident investigations and take corrective action to prevent injury and / or re-occurrence (involving team members and incidents / accidents at the laboratory).