Resident Engineer at Anglo American

Job Description

The role ensures effective and safe responsible maintenance of engineering practices: You will be responsible for the following:

• Provide support and lead the Operational Risk Management system and process within the engineering discipline.
• Provides visible felt leadership in safety, sustainable development, and Anglo-American values.
• Contributes to the development of the strategic operational plans and strategy but has direct accountability for the execution of such strategies within the area of accountability.
• Develops, implements, and monitors engineering maintenance, risk and operational tactics and plans to deliver the business objectives.
• Provides and oversees engineering services, shaft and open pit infrastructure (rail, roads, power, compressed air, water) and equipment availability are adequate and maintained to meet operational goals.
• Maintains a 5-year asset management plan to ensure asset integrity and critical spares is sustained.
• Leads and manages resources (labour, spares, suppliers. Contractors etc) to deliver production targets and projects as required.
• Ensures compliance with all legal, environmental, occupational health and safety and risk management standards and best practices.
• Ensures compliance to all group, BU and other engineering, sustainability and asset management standards and specifications within the area of accountability
• Develops sets and manages the engineering and maintenance budgets
• Accountable and ensures the implementation of key strategic initiatives such as the operating model, asset management framework and SIB deployment.
• Manages implements and contributes to continuous improvement and asset optimisation initiatives and projects for engineering processes.
• SIB projects planning and execution in collaboration with the Site PMO office
• Leads specialist defect elimination process and RCA’s into complex failures and support reliability improvement plans.
• Develops and or inputs into major equipment repair scopes and conducts off site specialist QA during both manufacturing and repair processes.
• Safety performance improvements plan leading to zero harm
• Support and address all governance and assurance audit processes
• Support and address all framework assessment processes
• Continual Critical Equipment performance improvement by monitoring set of key performance measures.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with relevant stakeholders specifically HRD, Supply chain and Projects to ensure that these service providers meet the operational expectations from an engineering perspective

Managerially accountable to: Senior Engineering Manager

Functional Report: Section Engineering Managers

Key Internal Role Relationships: Safety, Finance, Sta- in-Business, Technical Service, Asset Strategy & Reliability, Environmental, Permitting, Social and Business Partners

Qualifications

• Degree or National Higher Diploma in Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering
• Government Certificate of Competency (Mines and Works)
• Post Graduate Qualification in Asset Management/ Engineering Management (Advantageous)

Experience

• 10 years engineering experience of which 5 years is in senior (E1) engineer role.
• Valid driving license code 08