Manager Mining - Burgersfort at De Beers Group

Job Description:

As our Manager Mining, your responsibilities will include the following but not limited to:

Business Expectations:

• Provide Mining-specific information as input to the development of the Life of Asset Plan and the Resource Development Plan.
• Break down Group requirements and performance targets to site level, translate into site-specific targets and budgets and communicate to on-site teams.
• Implement and monitor technical and operational improvements which includes the adoption of technological and digitalization / Future Mine requirements to meet sustainability.
• Implement and execute the mining strategy to achieve production targets.

Operational Planning:

• Provide Mining input into site-specific 5-year plan, lead development and ongoing management of the site Mining BP and 1-year budget.
• Review and sign off technical plans and production inputs for budgets and the Operating Master Schedule, ensuring they are based on sound logic with appropriate stretch and actionable planned improvements.
• Work with Corporate/ BU/Technical Services to develop and implement plans and to optimize extraction, material movement and grade management.
• Establish effective communication and feedback processes for Mining teams and key stakeholder groups to ensure people are informed and aware of business objectives, performance and direction in a timely and routine manner.
• Drive continuous improvement of on-site Mining work and cross-functional interfaces required to deliver safe, sustainable and efficient operations.
• Ensure there is an agreed plan in place to deliver improvements to benchmark on all priority Mining equipment within 3 years.

Work Management:

• Effectively lead and manage Mining operations to deliver the budget including all relevant production, safely, environmental, cost and quality targets.
• Manage process and costs to ensure the Mining teams set and deliver the annual budget and production targets safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Develop cost awareness within Mining discipline and focus on reducing all process waste.
• Work closely, collaborate proactively and resolve issues jointly with Processing to align tonnage to fragmentation/volume/grade targets and with AS&R to align equipment availability targets, fixed plan infrastructure operational reliability programs.
• Embed systems, targets and processes to effectively track and control execution on a monthly basis, ensuring a high level of compliance to plan across suite of metrics.
• Apply work management principles and processes of AAOM to ensure appropriately detailed operational and execution planning over multiple time horizons.
• Optimize the Dispatch Fleet Management System (and mine management systems) to ensure efficient mining operations in line with plans and the delivery of benchmark performance on priority equipment.
• Review mining equipment fleet selection and equipment performance, considering maintenance/operational performance outcomes and installed system capability/capacity.
• Provide thought leadership to all mining activities to ensure a realistic range of options are investigated, considered and effectively implemented, with recognition of effective discipline integration and value from synergies.

Feedback:

• Identify and embed business initiatives and improvement projects into site operational processes to support delivery of best practice mining performance (P101).
• Proactively identify Mining-related challenges and opportunities that new systems, equipment and technology could address.
• Embed new technologies into the on-site Mining work once solution design is execution-ready.
• This role is in the Mining department at a Band 5 level reporting to the General Manager

Qualifications:

You will be required to have the following: 

• BEng Mining / BTech Eng Mining / NHD Metalliferous Mining (essential)
• Mine Managers Certificate of Competency (essential)
• Master’s Degree will be an advantage.
• Drivers’ License

Knowledge, Skills & Experience: 

• 10 years’ experience as a Production / Mine Manager in a Hard Rock Mining environment
• Background in Mechanised Mining will be an advantage
• Medically fit