Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 18 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job description:
Overall Job Purpose
• As a key member of the Processing Technical team and reporting into the Superintendent Technical, the Senior Metallurgist Flotation is accountable to define, implement, monitor & report on the Flotation plant process strategy to optimise metallurgical performance;
• The ‘technical process’ owner of the Flotation section;
• The role has a focus on daily-weekly-monthly optimisation.

Specific Job Responsibility
• Understand and execute accountabilities of legal appointment under Zambian Mining Regulations;
• The role has accountability for the optimisation of the Flotation metallurgical process;
• Ensure strong compliance to HSE standards within team;
• Define and implement the Flotation metallurgical process strategy;
• Consistently deliver and exceed the main KPI of recovery, concentrate quality (Cu, Insols & Carbon) and tails grade;
• Directly participate in the daily & weekly work activities of the processing plant, serving as technical support to operations personnel to enhance performance;
• Monitor, analyse, control and report on process performance indicators (including in-plant sampling & results);

Job Specific Competencies
• Conduct troubleshooting and detailed data analysis (i.e. using PI) to identify root causes and corrective actions for poor plant performance;
• Coordinate field trials and metallurgical test-work to evaluate circuit performance and recommend ways of improving performance.
• Document and maintain a database of all plant trials, including parameter changes and plant responses;
• Maintain and routinely communicate a database of critical metallurgical values;
• Issue to and follow up on Daily Operating Instructions to the shift teams on key process parameters, tasks and considerations;
• Constantly seek out and implement innovative solutions, including testing of new reagents;
• Review plant design, scope and develop justification for capital upgrades;
• Active involvement in the commissioning of new projects;
• Define the flotation process control philosophies and collaborate with the Metallurgist Process Control and Control Engineers to implement, tune and maintain the resultant control systems;
• Define and monitor utilisation of the Flotation ‘expert’ control system;
• Interact with Mining, Geologists & Geometallurgist on feed ore quality & formulate optimal operating strategy;
• Ensure strong integration and alignment of technical activities with Flotation operating teams;
• Supervise and control the activities, standard of performance of subordinate staff;
• Contribute to transference of technical skills to the national staff;
• Ensure cost management is part of on-going decision making;
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Superintendent Technical.
Key Job Attributes
• Commitment to SHEC performance;
• Good leadership and motivational skills, and get work done through others;
• Strong drive and personal sense of ownership and accountability;
• Strong ability to task assign, build working relations and coordinate different operating disciplines to create a “team” environment;
• Good cognitive and analytical skills for identifying process shortfalls, bottlenecks and implementing metallurgical testing;
• Affinity to supervise technical research, direct and train metallurgical engineers and technicians;
• Accustomed to carrying out advanced calculations and possess ability to analyse and understand highly complex and statistical metallurgical data;
• Strong understanding of complex metallurgical information, process improvement and control strategies;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and able to assemble data and provide clear and accurate operational performance reports in both an upward and downward direction;
• Ability to maintain self-discipline within a stressful environment;
• Be diligent and thorough in approach;
• Be enthusiastic and pro-active in manner;
• Computer fluency is a must.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• English language fluency.

Experience required to perform in this job
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in large, complex metallurgical process operations;
• Direct experience in plant technical metallurgist / engineering roles with specific experience in base metal flotation;
• Experience in process control systems, process information databases (ie PI Process Book) and metallurgical optimization required.

Qualifications
• A Degree in Chemical Engineering, Extractive Metallurgy or Mineral Processing or related field;
• Eligibility for membership of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ), and to hold relevant legal appointment as defined by the Mining Regulations of Zambia

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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