Coordinator (Metallurgical), PGM at Glencore

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Reporting to the Plant Superintendent
• Applicable 2.9.2 legal appointment
• Safe and efficient operation of the PGM and PGM Feed Preparation plant/s.
• Assisting in managing production teams and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
• Assist in facilitating training of production personnel.
• Assisting the Plant Superintendent and MES department with the metal accounting reporting processes.
• Ensuring production targets are communicated to production teams and work plans are well executed to meet set targets.
• Oversee the effective operation of the PGM and PGM Feed Preparation plants to achieve metallurgical KPI’s.
• Ensuring that specified product quality requirements are met which meet customer expectations.
• Daily product dispatching and logistics arrangements.
• Identify areas for process and metallurgical performance improvement through technical analysis and metallurgical test work programmes.
• Managing metallurgical technical plant routine tasks, technical tasks schedules and reporting.
• Optimising, overseeing and continually improving the operation of the plant by process teams.
• Planning and executing plant processing equipment maintenance.
• Performing standby duties.

About you:

• Degree in Metallurgical/ Chemical Engineering
• MDP/MAP/PME/SLP University Certificate is an added advantage
• At least 6 years’ experience in a mineral processing plant of which 4 years should have been in a PGM Flotation plant and in a leadership role.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in PGM flotation.
• Proven record of participation in fundamental research within the Platinum Concentrators.
• Good understanding of basic process control for flotation plants.
• Proven record of managing metallurgical / chemical engineering students and graduates while officially appointed as a plant or technical metallurgist in a big scale metallurgical operation.
• Ability to communicate metallurgical technical information effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Performance / Results driven, accurate and timeous completion of assignments.
• Capable of achieving KPI’s in high work pressure environment.
• Knowledge of the mining process, standards, procedures, safety, and legal requirements
• Conversant with MS Office packages (MS Office, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) with good technical report writing and presentations skills
• Good understanding of data historian and proven data analysis skills
• Good knowledge of PGM Metal Accounting Compilation & Reporting
• Code 08 Driver’s License and own transport