Section Manager Ore Control at Anglo American

Job Description:

As our Section Manager Ore Control of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Manage a safe and healthy work environment for employees and contractors, ensuring all activities are conducted within a controlled risk framework.
• Ensure environmental impacts remain within statutory limits to maintain full compliance.
• Actively participate in Visible Felt Leadership (VFL), conduct and review Risk Assessments, and ensure timely close-out of Safety Actions.

Performance and Delivery

Ore Classification and Block Prediction

• Deliver accurate material classifications for blast blocks, ensuring precision in grade and tonnage estimations.
• Produce clear and legible graphical representations of predicted blocks to support operational decision-making.
• Integrate Production Geology with material classification to ensure consistency and accuracy.

Selective Mining and Value Optimisation

• Provide strategic insights into selective mining to enhance ore value extraction.
• Apply value-based ore control parameters to guide loading dimensions and orientations for optimal resource utilisation.

Geological Reconciliation

• Reconcile resource models with grade control data to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between predicted and actual ore grades.

Drilling Coordination

• Plan and coordinate grade control infill drilling aligned with monthly and annual mine plans.
• Monitor drilling activities to ensure compliance with budgetary constraints and timeline commitments.

Process Integration

• Ensure alignment between long-, medium-, and short-term planning horizons and mining execution.
• Align Production Geology and Grade Control processes.
• Ensure integration between Mining operations and Plant processes.
• Investigate and explain VCR discrepancies between modified grade control and survey ex-pit nodes.

Marketing Alignment

• Attend weekly and quarterly marketing alignment meetings to provide feedback and contribute to establishing quarterly typical product values.
• Lead investigations into client queries related to product specifications and quality.
• Provide technical input into marketing negotiations with clients.

Project Management

• Lead Mineral Resource Management (MRM) projects aimed at improving mining practices and operational efficiency.
• Track project progress, proactively manage deviations, and ensure delivery within scope, time, and budget.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with short-term planning, logistics, and marketing teams to optimise ore reserve utilisation.
• Develop and align feed strategies with market requirements to ensure delivery of on-specification iron ore products.
• Integrate production processes to enhance efficiency and maintain high standards of quality control.
• Align marketing efforts with the delivery plan to meet market requirements.

Budget and Cost Control

• Manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
• Monitor project expenditure to ensure sound financial practices are applied and upheld.

People Management

• Optimise human resource deployment to maximise section output and performance.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and strong work ethics among team members.

This role is in Geology (GEO) department on a band 6.12 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager Geology

Qualifications:

• B–Geology or BEng Mining or BEng Metallurgy or BEng Industrial (NQF7)
• BSc Hons – Geology or BEng Mining or BEng Metallurgy (NQF8)
• Registered member (full) of SACNASP/ECSA
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• Possesses 6–8 years of relevant experience in ore control, demonstrating deep domain understanding.
• Familiar with geoscientific principles, ore body behaviour, and the impact of geological factors on mining operations.
• Knowledgeable about the mining lifecycle, the value chain, and how mining activities influence business and operational performance.
• Understand safety standards, hazard identification methods, and risk management principles applicable to mining environments.
• Familiar with the health implications of mining designs and operational activities, and how they relate to organisational risk levels.
• Knowledgeable in managing finances, labour, and projects, with the ability to analyse critical performance data and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Understand proactive risk identification, reporting, and management, including the testing and implementation of safety and health solutions to maintain a secure mining environment.
• Aware of the implications of safety and health risks on Group objectives and risk levels, and knowledgeable in engineering solutions, embedding standards, and promoting local ownership of risk mitigation strategies.
• Understand safe operational practices and their significance in maintaining safety, productivity, and compliance within the mining industry.

Closing Date:

• 23 October, 2025