Engineer: Flotation at Mintek

Job Description

Key Performance Indicators: 

Financial sustainability

• Prepare proposals under direct/limited supervision, including Open Call proposals.

Execution, People and Planning

• Perform routine scientific and engineering research using standard methods, procedures and equipment. Act 
  as Principal investigators on such projects.
• Perform complex scientific and engineering research under supervision.
• Design, operate and oversee discipline specific experimental work and ensure that procedures are complied with, and quality control and continual improvement are applied.
• Collect and interpret data at a quantitative and qualitative level using discipline specific standard methodologies and procedures. Including the preparation of analytical and descriptive narratives. Ensure that the interpretation is based on sound scientific / engineering theory.
• Plan and manage projects to ensure efficient use of time, equipment and facilities, including coordinating with others.

Governance and Risk Management

• Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies, promote continual improvement in the workplace, adhere to and enforce all SHEQ requirements.
• Ensure that the project team understands and adheres to all SHEQ requirements.
• As Principal Investigator responsible for the assessment and management of all risks at a project level.
• May be responsible for equipment / facilities.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Present at local conferences and publish conference papers, journal papers.

Interactions

• Interaction with staff in own division, across other divisions to head level; suppliers and vendors (engineers), 
  clients/collaborators at technical level.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum: Bsc. Hons or 4 year Engineering degree
• Ideal: MSc, MEng (NB: other lower degrees, must atatin the minimum requirement to stay in this position)
• 1 -2 years vocational experience following first graduation (BSc Hons/BEng)
• Must have 2 - 3 years Communition and Flotation experience

Behavioral Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to cope in a stressful and demanding environment.

Apply by: 14 August 2026