Vice President Capital Projects at Gold Fields Limited

 Role Details

          Gold Fields is currently seeking a Vice President Capital Projects to join the Corporate Technical Services Department to provide strategic leadership to all the Regions within the Gold Fields Group.

   Reporting to the Chief Technical Officer, this role will be responsible for providing expertise to the Group and Regions in areas of capital projects and capital expenditure

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide expert advice and guidance on Capital Projects strategies for the Group by working closely with the relevant Corporate Disciplines and the Regions.
• Develop and manage the technical capital management standards ensuring capital budgets align with Business plans and processes.
• Advise Corporate Financial teams on the development of the capital budgets and expenditure reports with detailed annual review of capital budgets.
• Review and monitor for over and under expenditure with advice on corrective measures.
• Conduct Capital risk rankings and executes capital-rationing process.
• Leads the Gold Fields Investment Committee.
• Works as a Gold Fields ambassador upholding and living the Company values.

Key factors to your success include:

• Relevant formal tertiary qualification
• Be registered with an appropriate professional organization/body.
• Extensive experience and a comprehensive understanding of mining capital costing, projects budgeting & planning.
• Extensive experience in the preparing of the relevant AFE’s and compliance frameworks.
• Environmental awareness and knowledge - aware of professional trends, industry trends as well as external business trends that could affect the business and profession.
• Advanced business and financial acumen including Strategic leadership, tactical management and planning skills.
• Acumen in the conducting of Capital projects audits.
• Advanced Project Management Experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership competence to guide a dynamic and professional team indirectly and to be able to work effectively in multicultural and multidiscipline environments.