Operator: Lead Drossing Furnace at Rand Refinery

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO

• Operate the 3t lead drossing furnace and produce barren lead to the required standard.
• Remove skimmings and drosses as per the Safe operating procedure for the lead drossing furnace.
• Accurately sampling all products and byproducts and record the information on the logsheets.
• Ensures that all feed materials and by-products consumed/generated are weighed and sent for sampling for metal balance purposes.
• Blend high grade low volume customer materials and smelt a minimum of 500kg per 12-hour shift.
• Monitor molten stream temperature as per written procedure – temperature cannot exceed 1200 degrees Celsius.
• Utilise the induction furnace to treat customer material and transfer the final ingots to the refinery as part of Dore transfers or to the BBOC.
• The operator role also includes the atomisation of blister copper into atomised copper and operates the drier to transfer the material to sampling.
• Drying solid atomised copper product to separate oversize product from undersize stream.
• Ensure that the furnace availability is communicated immediately for optimised production.
• Required to assist in AF tapping and BBOC clean-off.
• Provides adequate troubleshooting within induction furnace through checking panel parameters.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A completed Matric qualification.
• 3 years’ experience in smelting operations.
• Qualification in Chemical Eng or Metallurgy will be advantageous.