Metallurgical Technical Engineer at Anglo American

Job Description:
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Assist operations personnel to implement agreed guidelines, rules and recipe for the plant
• Audit compliance to “recipe” and liaise with plant personnel
• Provide/liaise with external resources to conduct agreed plant surveys/audit processes
• Manage metallurgical talent assigned to technical function in own area
• Recommend technical corrective action to operation’s production personnel
• Monitor, Trend, Interpret, and Report plant Key Process Parameters for discussion with central technical structure
• SHE SLA
• Monitor, Trend, Interpret and Report Key Process Parameters
• Identify ongoing potential areas for plant process improvement
• Identify key performance shortfalls and liaise/communicate with central technical function
• Troubleshoot and resolve operation problems within plant operating “recipe”
• Ongoing support to plant production team to achieve operational goals
• Facilitate technology transfer from centre
• Project execution of agreed audit work & plant surveys (plant diagnostics)
• Provide detailed analyses of process control/plant performance relationships
• Process improvement initiatives
• Plant optimization within recipe
• Identify ongoing capital requirements for plants
• SHE Programs
• Effective technical operation of the plant
• Identifying new methods to improve the section’s technical process
• Good employee relations
• Administration of the relevant technical systems
• Support the overall operational management of the plant.
• This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to theManager Technical Processing

Qualifications:

• Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Metallurgy degree / Diploma  

Experience

• 5 years or more post qualification Plant experience in metallurgy development projects and line management

Knowledge and Skills

• Computer literacy for the role
• English literate
• Valid driving license code B or EB