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Job Description:

Job responsibilities include:

• Stopping the winding operations if the working conditions are unsafe.
• Basic maintenance of equipment.
• Communicating winding engine defects to the appropriate supervisor or manager.
• Material usage to standard.
• Effective response to indicated problems.
• Transporting of persons.
• Safe and effective operations of winders.
• Performing ore pulling operations from relevant levels.
• Co-ordinate winding activities with total process requirements.
• Responding to standard hauling signals.
• Assist during breakdowns or emergencies.
• Help engineering employees to maintain equipment in the winder area.
• Ensuring safe and reliable workmanship.
• Adhering to all safety, emergency and first aid procedures.
• Interacting with other teams and systems.
• Maintaining own safe and productive workplace

The role is at a C3 level reporting to the Vertical Electrical Foreman.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 / NQF 4.
• Certificate Winding Engine Driver – 9 months training.

Experience

• 3 years’ experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Computer literate in MS Office.

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Purpose of the role:

The purpose is to be the overarching expert and owner for Wet End Processes, Pumping, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the design criteria for wet end processes, pumping, etc. and conduct design reviews.
• Analyse root causes for performance issues and facilitate improvement sprints.
• Own the wet end processes, pumping, etc baseline asset tactics.
• Closely collaborate with Supply Chain on the purchase specifications for equipment and strategic planning with suppliers (also including warranty).
• Advise and oversee condition monitoring for this part of plant.
• Participates in Root Cause Analysis and Defect Elimination as required. 
• Analyse pump efficiency and define counter measures for wear and damages/failures.
• Support the sensor development in order to conduct condition monitoring.
• Refine and develop (Fasteners, Lubrication, Alignment and Balance) principles for pumps.
• Establish working relationships with key OEM partners to drive continuous improvement.

Experience:

• 15 years’ relevant experience.

Role-specific knowledge:

• Demonstrated maintenance and operational support experience.
• Solve technical and operational issues in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
• Implements the most effective solutions to drive efficiencies.
• Optimise productivity and quality targets through utilising Engineering knowledge and cooperating with multi-disciplinary teams highlight areas of improvement.
• Manage, monitors and drives project activities within a specific project or Operation.
• Demonstrable balance between theoretical mechanical engineering and practical mechanical system maintenance, operations, and management.
• Proactively identifies, mitigates, or escalate risks.

Technical knowledge:

• Demonstrated knowledge of operational complexities experienced as an engineer in a mining operation.
• In addition to English proficiency, Portuguese and/or Spanish language skills would be highly advantageous.
• Sound working knowledge of relevant processing plant equipment.

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline (e.g. Mechanical Engineering) and/or relevant experience within the trade.
• A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in relevant technical discipline would be an advantage.

Certifications

• Registered Engineer

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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