Section Manager Technical Processing at Anglo American

Job Description:

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Assist operations personnel to implement agreed guidelines, rules and recipe for the processing plants.
• Audit compliance to “recipe” and liaise with plant personnel.
• Provide/liaise with external resources to conduct agreed plant surveys/audit processes.
• Manage metallurgical talent assigned to technical function in processing area.
• Recommend technical corrective action to operation’s production personnel.
• Monitor, Trend, Interpret, and Report plant Key Process Parameters for discussion with central technical structure.
• Advise process operating personnel on refractory selection.
• Processing test work on the plants.
• Monitor, Trend, Interpret and Report Key Process Parameters.
• Identify ongoing potential areas for plant process improvement.
• Ongoing support to plant production team to achieve operational goals.
• Facilitate technology transfer from centre.
• Project execution of agreed audit work & plant surveys (plant diagnostics).
• Provide detailed analyses of process control/plant performance relationships.
• Refractory selection for different applications.
• Review furnace measurement data to proactively identify potential problems.

This role is at a GBF 6 level reporting to the Manager Processing.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or chemistry degree/diploma

Experience

• At least 7 years post qualification Plant experience in metallurgy development projects and line management

Additional information:

• Valid driving license code 08