Senior Manager Technical Mining at Anglo American

Job Description:

Provides visible felt leadership in safety, sustainable development and Anglo American values.

Safety & Health

• Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety an health for the site is paramount.
• Develop discipline-specific plans/ systems to reduce exposure to discipline- specific risks.
• Design and approve operational risk management systems to assess critical risks and monitor effectiveness of critical control within the discipline.
• Monitor and ensure effectiveness of discipline Safety & health system.

Performance & Delivery

Business Expectations

• Provide key technical information as input to the development of the 5 year business plan and the Life of Asset Plan and the Resource Development Plan.
• Break down Group Technical requirements, strategies, and performance targets to site level, translate into site-specific targets and budgets and communication toon-site teams.

Operational Planning

• Ensure consolidation, alignment, and integration of discipline inputs into site 5-year plan and provide key technical input on production strategy, resource optimization, maintenance plans, shutdown plans, risk management plans, mine design and equipment performance.
• Ensure development of an integrated operational plan for a 1-month to 5-year time horizon that stretches across disciplines, aligns with LaAP, and integrates all relevant technical information (i.e., geochemical, geological, geotechnical, survey, ect),

Work Management

• Ensure sufficient physical resources are available on site to deliver integrated operational plan.
• Ensure integration of discipline resource plan into consolidated site view to ensure site’s discipline ability to deliver against targets.
• Liaise with on-site Supply Chain team to ensure sourcing and provision of required resources and equipment for on-site operational and technical activities.
• Manager and approve laboratory resources allocations (time, people, materials) and Laboratory SLAs.

Feedback

• Review and approve purpose statement, theory statement and derived Processing measures.
• Undertake reconciliations across technical & operational processes to identify opportunities for improvements.
• Coordinate assessments of input assumptions and planning/scheduling processes.
• Communicate opportunities for improvement to process owners.

This role is at a Band 5 level reporting to the General Manager.

Qualifications:

• BSc: Mining Engineering, or BTech: Mining Engineering, or BTech: Mineral Resource Management or BSc/ BTech: Mine Geology/ Engineering Geology/ Ventilation.
• Advantageous: Post Graduate Qualifications, either PG Dip: in Mining, MRM, Geology, Engineering Geology, Ventilation; MBA.
• Advantageous: Certificate of competence (CoC): Mine Managers certificate, Mine Survey, Rock Engineering, Ventilation.

Experience

• At least 10 years management experience of which at least 5 years should be in mine management.
• Key value drivers across site value chain and interdependence of key levels.
• Principles and elements of the Operational Model focusing on Work Management and its implications on the discipline.
• Project management fundamentals
• New technology and their impact on operational activities within scope of role.
• Business improvement tools and techniques
• Mining operations in relevant commodity, including proficiency in one or more sub-disciplines.
• Safety by design principles, including Operational Risk Management practices.
• Data measurement, monitoring, and analysis techniques
• Domain relevant equipment, flowsheet design and optimization.
• Minerals/ feed characteristics and specifications and application to domain specific processes
• Laboratory methods and equipment functions.

Commercial

• Commercial/ business drivers in discipline, business performance variability and underlying causes that define subsequent actions.
• Basic financial metrics, cost, and value management & budgeting tools.

Management

• Risk management techniques and critical controls.
• Value chain management within discipline, and awareness of interdependencies across value chain steps.
• AA organizational model concepts and principles
• Strategic thinking with demonstrated ability to establish/set/challenge asset strategy to deliver business goals.
• Compilation and optimization of designs, plans & schedules that execute on asset strategy to deliver production objective.

Compliance

• Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, regulatory and permitting requirements

Knowledge and Skills

• Development and application of solutions to the discipline value chain to ensure productive and safe work and achieve plans.
• Application of Sustainability and Safety concepts to decision-making.
• Business improvement techniques to improve business performance and sustainability for the discipline.
• Interpretation of benchmarks, identification of performance gaps and development of targeted, effective plans to achieve measurable improvements for the discipline.
• Allocation and management of work packages across a portfolio of project activities.
• Leading and managing through crises and times of transformation and change.
• Limitations of data and analysis, and decision-making based on analysis.
• Flowsheet design and optimisation, including integration into the value chain