Process Engineer at Rand Refinery

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO

• Governance of Smelter blueprint and manage risks of any changes through updates of drawings, SOPs, functional descriptions and control philosophies.
• Provides adequate troubleshooting within Smelter Business Complex through measuring and monitoring trend analysis – SCADA, process, financial, metal accounting. 
• Develop Power BI models for data collection, profitability models, complete business cases and trade off study documents for information sharing with the EXCO, Senior Management, Junior and Leadership forums.
• Responsible to generate project user requirement specifications, process flow diagrams, financial cost benefit analysis prior to project moving to stage gate 1.
• Conduct mass, energy, water and utility balances across Smelter.
• Evaluation of the Smelter metal balance from process order reviews, lockups.
• Conduct reviews of sampling and assaying through audits to understand risk of metal variability to business.
• Commissioning and performance testing of new unit operations along with punch list activities and training documentation and personnel.
• Lead investigations related to process, quality and governance incidents.
• Monitor and measure the cost of production for efficiency and continual improvement through best practice and world class implementation.
• Manage compliance to environmental controls.
• Work closely with Evaluation to ensure full understanding of elemental and compound analysis that influence process chemistry and efficiencies.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A completed Matric qualification.
• A Degree in Chemical OR Metallurgical Engineering (BTech, BEng or BSc Eng qualification).
• Preference will be given to a candidate with up to 7 years’ experience with an operational, metallurgical or smelting environment.
• Must have 2 years within a middle management position.