Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 06 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job description:
Specific Job Responsibility
• Maintain health, safety and environmental standards and ensure strict compliance within technical team.
• Implement and reinforce FQM Way culture across the Technical team – “Smarter, Bolder, Driven, Together”
• Oversee and develop metallurgical and chemical talent within the technical function.
• Proactively manage succession planning for key roles, ensuring leadership continuity and capability.
• Mentor and coach technical and optimization staff to build a high-performing team.
• Provides strategic metallurgical-technical guidance to the operation heads to ensure alignment to the business and long-term plans.
• Lead the operations optimization team, managing advanced control and data systems, and driving automation and digitalization initiatives.
• Oversee the chemical and metallurgical laboratories, ensuring accurate assay results and the continuous improvement of metallurgical processes.
• Ensure that metallurgical and laboratory standards adhere to international best practices.
• Coordinate closely with the Mining Technical department to optimize the mine to mill process, ensuring resource efficiency and operational effectiveness.
• Aligns metallurgical planning to the mine strategic plan.
• Make informed recommendations to management on adopting new technologies.
• Establish robust communication channels to facilitate effective information sharing and data-driven decision-making, supporting the achievement of plant objectives.
• Manages budgets (requested and allocated) and thereby costs, for the achievement of planned activities and objectives.
• Review plant design, scope and develop justification for capital upgrades
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Process Plant Manager.

Job Specific Competencies
• Deep understanding of safety regulations and best practices in metallurgy and chemical standards.
• Exceptional ability to guide, direct, and influence team members to achieve outstanding performance.
• Proficient in communicating effectively across all organizational levels, including senior management and external stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyse complex technical issues.
• Strong understanding of complex metallurgical information, process improvement and control strategies.
• Expertise in process control systems, data analysis tools, and simulation software, with a solid grasp of process improvement and control strategies.
• Project management skills to oversee equipment upgrades and process improvement projects.

Experience and Qualification
• A minimum of 15 years in complex metallurgical process operations, preferably within copper and nickel plants.
• Proven experience in the mentoring and development of metallurgical teams as well as interpersonal skills to influence operational leaders.
• Hands-on experience with process control systems, process information databases (e.g., PowerBI, PI Process Book, PIvision), and metallurgical optimization practices.
• Prior involvement in the commissioning and ramp-up of a processing plant is highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• Post-graduate study in a related technical field highly regarded.
• Manual SADC class B driver’s licence preferred.
• EIZ membership eligibility (Engineering Institution of Zambia)

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 180

Level of Education:

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