Lead Process Engineer - Johannesburg at Minopex

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the Company’s Health and Safety responsibilities
• Responsible for the planning, controlling and co-ordination of process engineering activities, to ensure optimal utilisation of resources
• Evaluates process feasibility and economic studies and assists other disciplines as far as process design is concerned
• Coordinates with operations and maintenance personnel in order to ensure that plant performance is optimized with regard to throughput, recoveries and product quality
• Monitors, investigates and analyses plant performance to ensure continuous improvement and maximum operational efficiencies
• Conducts research and development with the aim to improve process efficiencies, methods, and deliver a quality product
• Provides process engineering and technical expertise on the plant
• Conducts process evaluations and develops process concepts
• Oversee the drafting of P&IDs and PFDs
• Helps with the technical adjudication of process plant equipment
• Understands technical issues and challenges, able to write proposals / scopes of work, process design criteria including PFD’s and P&IDs, scheduling and managing test work, analysing data, and compiling metallurgical reports
• Manage and / or mentor process engineers and metallurgists
• Project Management
• Analyzes the project technical documents to validate consistency between the budget, resources, and means allocated for the work completed and the targets to be met.
• Identify project hot spots, criticalities, and activity priorities.
• Identify and executes cost reduction and production optimisation initiatives

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering

Experience and Skills Requirements

• 10 years’ hands on experience in process engineering from a design and operating perspective
• Management experience
• Project Management
• Experience maximising plant performance and reducing bottlenecks in the production process
• Research and Development experience
• Base metal processing experience will be an advantage
• Strong problem solving skills
• English language proficiency
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Time management skills
• Computer Literate in MS Office
• Valid driver’s licence code B, EB or C1