Metallurgist - Postmasburg at Anglo American

Job Description:

Enhance plant processes and achieve optimal throughput, final product quality, and value by providing expert technical assistance and support for process control applications.

• Consistently apply safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for protecting self and others to ensure zero harm and eliminating fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount.
• Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.
• Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area.
• Identify PUEs and monitor critical control performance within own working area.
• Ensure customer satisfaction index and product quality conformance by implementing effective measures and procedures.
• Provide specialist technical support to the operation and projects within the area of functioning, such as Crushing and screening, DMS, JIG QA/QC, Automation, and integration, as required.
• Act as a subject matter expert and develop and implement a metallurgical blueprint for the area of functioning to ensure efficient and effective processes.
• Offer technical input and solve complex metallurgical problems for specific processes/systems to troubleshoot and improve the overall process performance.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practice transfer to improve the process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Prepare technical reports of the process performance for effective monitoring and control.
• Provide SME input into production plans to ensure smooth and efficient production processes.
• Liaise up and down the stream to offer the best support and input to the process performance for effective collaboration and teamwork.
• Develop an expert-level understanding of installed equipment and processes to identify and implement ideas to improve and develop processes and equipment to ensure cost and process efficiency.
• Participate in multi-functional teams to share expert knowledge where needed to improve and optimise processes.
• Investigate identified opportunities to determine the potential for improving or optimising plant processes for better performance and efficiency. - Ensure customer satisfaction index and product quality conformance by implementing effective measures and procedures.
• Protects Anglo American’s license to operate and reputation by embedding sustainable practices in metallurgy.
• Proactively manages the impact of any metallurgical processes on the environment and community and drives compliance with licensing and legal requirements.
• Adopts a holistic view of the geological mining environment.
• Embeds sustainable practice into all activities.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, environmental, occupational health and safety- and risk management standards and best practices and take remedial action where necessary.
• Compliance with all audit and other license-to-operate requirements.

Qualifications:

• B Eng or BTech in Metallurgical/Chemical Engineering
• Certifications
• Prescribed
• Preferred
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• Key value drivers within the discipline's value chain and interdependence of key levers.
• Principles of how operational processes are classified according to the Operating Model, focusing on Work Management.
• Project management fundamentals.
• Innovative technologies and their impact on operational activities within the scope of the role.
• Business improvement tools and techniques.
• Business acumen and commercial drivers of site performance.
• Basic financial metrics & budgeting tools.
• Risk management techniques and critical controls.
• Leadership tools for implementing a culture of purpose-led high-performance and change.
• AA Organisation Model concepts and principles.
• Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements.