Vacancies at Lycopodium

The tasks you'll perform

• Conduct timely reviews of Project mechanical drawings to achieve full compliance with design intent.
• Approve, guide and review engineering designs, including calculations and designs development.
• Interpret engineering drawings, documents, specifications and scopes.
• Identify scope variations and prepare relevant documentation accordingly.
• Liaise with and provide professional support to drafting team in the preparation of drawing deliverables.
• Provide assistance to monitor the design and drafting progress.
• Develop technical documentation including scopes of work and specifications using relevant industry standards and guidelines.
• Approve and assist with the delivery of accurate engineering lists including but not limited to equipment, lubrication, spares, valves, pipeline and special items.
• Approve and assist with the delivery of accurate material take-offs as and when required.
• Evaluate and approve tenders, provide technical recommendations for the purchase of mechanical equipment from vendors where necessary.
• Review and approve certified vendor documentation and disseminate the information to the appropriate personnel for interface checking.
• Interdisciplinary co-ordination of technical aspects of the design.
• Approve and assist with the delivery of engineering documentation in relation to scope, quantities, cost and schedule.
• Understand and educate the team of the latest developments to Industry and Project specific codes, standards and related engineering matters.
• Register and file all relevant engineering documentation in accordance to the Company approved procedures.
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project design criteria and deliverables.
• Maximise the productivity and efficiency of the discipline by planning, scheduling and the appropriate allocation of resources to ensure deliverables are met.
• Contribute to engineers-in-training professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identify avenues of development.
• Suggest methods to improve operational efficiency.
• Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement.
• Proactively support other team members as required to ensure Project deliverables are met.
• Travel on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.

The expertise you'll bring

• University degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• A minimum of 15+ years of experience in mineral processing and/or related industries.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer with ECSA.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based
• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Display the core values and ethos of the business.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning for personnel within your business unit.
• Capacity to delegate appropriately.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Proficient understanding of business acumen with the ability to adapt to different business environments.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of process optimisation.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of confidentiality, personal responsibility and discretion.

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The tasks you'll perform

• Manage multiple tasks and prioritise where necessary to achieve agreed deliverables to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
• Perform accurate mechanical and piping engineering designs and calculations.
• Interpret engineering drawings, documents, specifications and scopes.
• Liaise with and provide professional support to drafting team in the preparation of drawing deliverables.
• Interdisciplinary co-ordination of technical aspects of the design.
• Develop technical documentation including scopes of work and specifications using relevant industry standards and guidelines.
• Produce accurate engineering lists including but not limited to equipment, lubrication, spares, valves, pipeline and special items.
• Provide accurate material take-offs as and when required.
• Compile tender pack technical requirements and scopes and provide technical recommendations for the procurement of mechanical equipment, bulk materials and construction contracts from vendors, fabricators and contractors where necessary.
• Review vendor certified documentation and disseminate the information to the appropriate personnel for interface checking.
• Register and file all relevant engineering documentation in accordance to the Company approved procedures.
• Proactively support other team members as required to ensure Project deliverables are met.
• Travel on ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.
• Assist with the provision of engineering documentation in relation to scope, quantities, cost and schedule.
• Maintain an understanding of the latest developments to industry and Project specific codes, standards and related engineering matters.
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project design criteria and deliverables.

The expertise you'll bring

• University degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• A minimum of 7+ years of experience in mineral processing and/or related industries.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer with ECSA.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based
• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Display the core values and ethos of the business.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning for personnel within your business unit.
• Capacity to delegate appropriately.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of process optimisation.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of confidentiality, personal responsibility and discretion.

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The tasks you'll perform

• Perform accurate engineering design and calculations for foundation, concrete and steel structures.
• Interpret engineering drawings, documents, specifications and scopes.
• Identify variations and prepare relevant documentations
• Conduct timely reviews of project structural and civil drawings to achieve full compliance with design intent.
• Liaise with and provide professional support to the drafting team in the preparation of drawing deliverables.
• Develop technical documentation including scopes of work and specifications using relevant industry standards and guidelines.
• Load engineering, calculate loads imposed by equipment, piping and cabling, including live and impact loads. Comprehend various load combinations.
• Provide accurate material take-offs as and when required.
• Evaluate tenders and provide technical recommendations for the purchase of structural and civil equipment from vendors where necessary.
• Review vendor certified documentation and disseminate the information to the appropriate personnel for interface checking.
• Assist with the delivery of project documentation in relation to scope, quantities, cost and schedule (man-hour budgets, design schedules and estimates).
• Register and file all relevant project documentation in accordance with the company approved procedures.
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project design criteria and deliverables.
• Contribute to engineers in training professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identify avenues of development.
• Proactively support other team members as required to ensure project deliverables are met.
• Manage external consultants and perform peer reviews on their deliverables.
• Travel on ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.

The expertise you'll bring

• University degree in Structural and Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in mineral processing and/or related industries.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer with ECSA.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based
• Previous experience in management and leading large teams of people.
• Exceptional ability to multitask and work at pace in a complex and challenging EPCM sector.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Ability to work with people at all levels within an organisation and external providers.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritise to a high standard of accuracy and professionalism.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of confidentiality, personal responsibility and discretion.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of managing contracts in the resources sector.
• Exemplify and encourage the core values and ethos of the business.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning for personnel within your group.
• Intuitive leader with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.
• Capacity to delegate appropriately.
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
• Demonstrate ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Well-developed business acumen with the ability to adapt to different business environments.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of contract law and contract document requirements.
• Ability to travel on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.
• High degree of professional ethics.
• Highly developed negotiation, influencing, analytical and problem resolution skills.

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The tasks you'll perform

• Ensure that Process Engineering activities are conducted to the highest quality, ethical and in line with Company, Client and regulatory requirement.
• Establish design standards in areas of expertise for the process team.
• Coordinate the resources necessary to ensure that studies are completed on time, on budget and to the appropriate standard.
• Work collaboratively with personnel across all business units.
• Ensure overall process deliverables are achieved to a consistently high standard. Respond immediately to change to ensure projects are completed on time in accordance with the contractual scope of work and services.
• Utilise project reporting requirements in accordance with Company and Client standards to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
• Responsible and accountable for all Process design functions carried out on designated Projects, whether handled personally or delegated to subordinate staff members.
• Deliver best practice process designs in accordance with project time, budget and technical requirements.
• Prepare and review study documents adhering to Company policies and procedures to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
• Analyse data and its relationship to the process design.
• Manage the process components of scoping, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies to ensure they are correct and thorough, appropriate to the study phase.
• Carry out peer reviews of particular designs.
• Actively solicit new business and assist with established client maintenance.
• Suggest methods to improve operational efficiency within the Process Engineering team.
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project design work criteria and deliverables.
• Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement.
• Contribute to engineers in training professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identify avenues of development.
• Proactively support other team members as required to ensure Project deliverables are met.
• Ensure a high level of communication is attained within the Process Engineering group.
• Provide leadership, guidance and direction to the Process Engineering group as required.
• Travel on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.

The expertise you'll bring:

• University degree in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering or equivalent qualification.
• A minimum of 15+ years of experience in mineral processing and/or related industries and post graduate experience.
• Mix of process plant operations and project development roles, within mining companies, and contract engineering organisations.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based

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The tasks you’ll perform

• Design, develop and maintain data structures.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to collect, transform, store and share / integrate data across platforms.
• Set up and administer database-centred engineering software applications.
• Configure and manage data storage solutions including object orientated SQL databases.
• Develop advanced digital engineering workflows.
• Be a user of the database-centred engineering software generating intelligent engineering drawings and capturing the related engineering information into the database.
• Stay up to date with latest developments in the digital engineering and applications industry and specifical as it pertains to mineral processing facilities.
• Be trained in the use of database-centred engineering design software and how the various engineering software applications interface with each other, in order to support ADP’s Digital Transformation Project.
• Follow the various (Project specific and company) procedures, plans and protocols required to work efficiently and maintain a consistent approach and high standard of work. 

The expertise you’ll bring

• Tertiary level qualification in Chemical / Mechatronic / Mechanical or similar.
• Specialised training and/or proven experience in data architecture and data integration using APL’s and software programming.
• Knowledge and/or proven experience with object-orientated SQL databases.
• Proven experience working in CAD – MicroStation / AutoCAD / SolidWorks. 
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident (submit a colour copy of your ID or Permanent Residence Permit with your application)
• Cape Town based.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables, within budget and schedule constraints.
• Demonstrate proficiency with the Microsoft suite of software packages, including Word, Excel, Access and Power Point.
• Demonstrate the ability to and/or proficiency in the use of specific proprietary software packages relevant to the Engineering discipline.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team and knowledge sharing environment.
• Demonstrate a practical, creative, and innovative approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continued professional development.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of confidentiality, personal responsibility and discretion.
• High degree of professional ethics.

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The tasks you'll perform

• Co-manage with the global IT Operations team, all site IT systems, backup, and server/network infrastructure, including firewalls, physical/virtual servers, network switches, WIFI access points, data storage mediums, end user computers, mobile devices, printers/copiers, UPS, RFID, and its related management solutions e.g., VMWare, Cisco Meraki, VPN solutions, SIP plans, Veeam.
• Co-manage with the global IT Operations team, all site domain services including DC, AD, GPO, DNS, DHCP, FTP, IIS, file/print services, MDT, remote desktop gateway.
• Co-manage with the global IT Operations team, Intune, providing asset discovery, disk encryption (BitLocker), onboarding and management of all computers with Helpdesk.
• Co-manage with the global IT Operations team, the Office365 technology stack.
• Storage management, this includes local storage and cloud storage e.g., SharePoint for all sites.
• Maintain the currency of site network diagrams for all sites.
• Co-monitor with the global IT Operations team, the uptime of all server and network related equipment via PRTG.
• Network management, including the maintenance of site main and backup Internet circuits, bandwidth management, vendor, and cost analysis for the African region.
• Remediate, and be primary POC for site cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application related matters for the African region and to a lesser extent the Americas region.
• Remediate, and make informed decisions as primary POC for all SOC escalated incidents during the African region work hours and to a lesser extent the Americas region.
• Co-plan and execute tech refresh and IT projects for the African region.
• Responsible for afterhours and in office hours patch management in collaboration with the global IT Operations teams, this includes workstations, servers, and networking devices in compliance with Australia’s Essentials 8 Maturity Level 1 for FY24/25.
• Responsible for afterhours and in office hours vulnerability remediation in collaboration with the global IT Operations teams, this applies to critical application vulnerabilities flagged via the Vulnerability Management platform.
• Manage Active Directory user commissioning, decommissioning and group policy management in collaboration with the global IT Operations team, Helpdesk and HR.
• Contribute to an SLA of uptime of 99.9% for Lycopodium’s global IT services across all sites, this translates to an unscheduled downtime of no more than 8.5hrs each year.
• Technical advisor to IT Project Manager and IT Operations Manager for all new project initiatives in relation to the African Region.

The expertise you'll bring

• Information Technology Degree or similar. 
• 3 years of experience managing corporate Windows Server infrastructure
• 3 years of experience managing corporate Network infrastructure
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) or equivalent will be advantageous.
• Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) or equivalent will be advantageous.
• Cybersecurity related qualifications and work experience will be advantageous.
• A minimum of 3 years in a similar role and minimum of 10 years in Information Technology roles
• Demonstrable experience working with networks including cloud access, VPN, Wi-Fi, telecommunications and network related security.
• Demonstrable experience working with security products such as mail, web, endpoint, identity, mobile devices, multifactor, SIEM & Log management software.
• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Cape Town based
• Full-time office based
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Exemplify and encourage the core values and ethos of the business.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of information technology hardware and platforms for both on premise and cloud environments.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of information technology hardware and platforms for both on premise and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with colleagues across all business units. 
• Good organisational and time management skills.