Jobs at Ivanhoe Mines

Suitable candidates must possess the following minimum qualifications and skills:

• Grade 12
• Relevant Degree in Finance, Supply Chain or Legal
• MDP B-BBEE (preferred)

Suitable candidates must have the following work experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in ESD and overall transformation.
• Experience in training and development of rural based SMME’s including incubation and mentoring.
• Successful track record in improving preferential procurement spend.
• Management experience.

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not be limited to:

• Monitor Supplier Funding.
• Conduct Gap analysis and diagnostics on SD Beneficiaries.
• Mentorship and coaching (Existing Suppliers).
• Track development of local suppliers.
• Monitoring & Evaluation (Partnerships, JVs, Distribution agreements).
• Collaborate with IVP Contractors on SD interventions.
• Advocate for existing suppliers’ growth (to more complex projects).
• Administer Supplier Development grant (if possible).
• Participate in Audits
• Ensure accurate reporting and compliance with transformation requirements (Table J, SLP, B-BBEE).
• Management of Supplier workspace in the Mine
• Report all SD interventions
• Implement Post Supplier development interventions
• Advocate for ED – SD graduation.
• Oversee the reporting of all ED interventions

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Suitable candidates must possess the following minimum qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree, BTech, BEng or BSc in Extractive Metallurgy, Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering (Mineral Processing) or a recognised equivalent qualification.
• Management Development Programme, postgraduate management qualification or equivalent formal leadership development.
• Proven involvement in concentrator commissioning, ramp-up, stabilization and optimization, with evidence of sustained improvement in throughput, recovery, quality, availability or cost

Suitable candidates must have the following work experience:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant mineral-processing or concentrator operations experience, including at least 5 years in a Senior Metallurgist, production superintendent, production manager, plant manager or equivalent senior operational leadership role.
• Experience commissioning or operating a large-scale greenfield or brownfield concentrator and transferring it from project to steady-state operations.
• Previous experience holding a Regulation 2.6.1 or comparable legal appointment at a mine or works.
• Experience with advanced process-control systems, plant historians, data analytics, and structured continuous-improvement methods.
• Experience in operational-readiness planning, workforce ramp-up, training-system development and large-project commissioning governance.
• Experience in PGM concentrator experience, particularly Platreef, UG2 or similarly complex sulphide flotation operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading a 24-hour mineral-processing operation and managing shift-based production teams.

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not be limited to:

• Lead production execution across the assigned concentrator process areas, including crushing, milling and classification, flotation, reagent systems, concentrate handling, tailings thickening and dewatering, process-water systems and associated operational interfaces.
• Operate within a commissioning and ramp-up environment in which operating standards, control limits, staffing capability, maintenance routines and metallurgical performance systems are still being embedded.
• Provide the direct operational link between metallurgy, production, maintenance, engineering, technical services, the laboratory, the projects and commissioning teams, contractors, vendors and shift-based operating personnel.
• Lead a 24-hour production function and ensure effective shift handovers, escalation, response to abnormal conditions and continuity of decision-making across all shifts.
• Prepare the Phase 1 production organisation and operating systems for long-term steady-state performance while developing standards and lessons that can be transferred to the larger Phase 2 operation.