Principal, Mechanical Engineering Design and Analysis at Anglo American

Job Description:

Purpose of the role:

• The purpose is to be the overarching expert and owner providing specialist technical support in all matters relating to Mechanical Engineering across Anglo American.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Anglo American as the Mechanical Engineering specialist and Subject Matter Expert in all matters relating to the Mechanical Engineering discipline
• Collaborate with, support and provide oversight of Operational, Engineering & Maintenance, and Project teams in conceptualisation, design, delivery, operation and maintenance of Mechanical systems that comply with industry standards and best-practice, and applicable legislation and regulations
• Actively engage and collaborate with industry and OEMs to keep abreast of best practices
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and implement new technologies as appropriate to enhance mechanical system performance.
• Act as the Functional Risk Authority and Technical Standard owner for the Pressure Equipment and Lifting Operations standards.
• Regularly review and update Pressure Equipment and Lifting Standards, and associated Technical Specifications and operational/maintenance procedures
• Provide oversight and perform safety, technical, operational, and maintenance reviews (Level 2) for the above-mentioned standards.
• Collaborate with the Asset Management team to define and develop Asset Strategies, best practice maintenance and condition monitoring principles for critical mechanical systems.
• Develop, entrench, implement and manage Asset Integrity for all mechanical equipment.
• Identify and drive mitigation strategies for technical risk associated with critical mechanical systems within the business.
• Drive the discipline of mechanical simulations and digital engineering, including the use of FEA, and other dynamic analysis tools to solve technical challenges, reliability issues and/or improve equipment efficiency.
• Work with project teams on Hazops and Risk Assessments to ensure designs are safe, technically appropriate, cost effective, and maintainable.
• Work with project teams to ensure that project technical inputs and outputs (including Technical Specifications and Design Criteria) are reflective of minimum requirements and ensure safe cost-effective operation/maintenance.
• Conduct project technical reviews.
• Closely collaborate with Supply Chain on the specifications for equipment, quality management and strategic planning with suppliers.
• Conduct site and supplier visits to understand local conditions, planning procedures, quality, etc.
• Closely collaborate with major equipment suppliers to build relationships and to ensure a high technical standard of equipment delivery, field support and service delivery.
• Facilitate and manage mechanical Root Cause Analysis investigation for major equipment failures as the Subject Matter Expert.
• Mentorship of young mechanical engineers

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors/Honours degree or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering
• A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

Certification

• Professional Engineer with ECSA (SA), CREA (Brazil), CIP (Peru), IENG (UK) or CIC (Chile)

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience as a mechanical engineer with experience in mechanical design, Asset integrity Management, Technical Standards and Specification management

Technical Skills

• Maintenance and operational support experience within the mineral processing or heavy industrial environment
• Experience in mining equipment with particular emphasis in plant systems
• Demonstrable balance between theoretical Mechanical engineering design and development, Asset Management, and practical Mechanical system project execution maintenance, operations and management
• Experience in Mechanical discipline project management experience in small and large projects with a good understanding of discipline interfaces
• Solve technical and operational issues in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
• Plan, Lead, Organise and Control technical solution delivery using a matrix of internal and external providers and stakeholders.
• Proactively identifies, mitigates or escalate risks.
• Optimise performance levels of assets through actively monitoring their operation and creating solutions to encourage sustainable use inclusive conducting analysis, data mining and modelling
• Provides consistent outstanding behaviour in relation to safety practices with an understanding of the importance of safety.

Closing Date:

• 07 September, 2025