Resident Engineer at De Beers Group

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.

Additional information:

• Valid driving license code 08