Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 27 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job description:
Overall Job Purpose:
Ensure that the Fixed Process Plant; obtain all necessary legal compliances, related to Process and Engineering functions for it to operate within the laid down guidelines of the Mines Safety Regulations. Safely execute testing and inspection of all statutory equipment as required by the Mines Safety Regulations. To ensure smooth, efficient and continuous running of the statutory compliance section; in line with prescribed standards, ensuring that optimum statutory compliance is attained on all equipment and labour.

Specific Job Responsibilities:
The specific tasks to be performed by the position holder will include;
• This positon will be required to adhere to all relevant requirements, policies, procedures and legal regulation pertaining to heal, safety, environment and quality, as well as finance, human resources and any other regulations as required by the Company.
• Coordinates statutory compliance in the Engineering Department and assist other Departments by creating procedures and guidelines to ensure that Governmental regulations and Industry rules are met by the Company in order to produce copper and Gold metals within the set budget safely.
• Coordinates information to keep the department up to date on new or revised regulations that may be relevant to running of the Engineering and Maintenance functions.
• Responsible for ensuring incidents are kept to a minimum and participates in the investigations of incidents/accidents and a review of procedures and relevant logbooks.
• Coordinates the Engineering Regulators and Government Inspectors who comes to site to inspect, examine and test or audit respective statutory equipment and personnel.
• Coordinates the acquisition of licenses from the Engineering Institution of Zambia for Company and Engineering professionals; radiation, by licensing the Company and all radiation sources and X-rays site; ZWMA to license all standard weights and scales in use on site; NCC to issue licenses for the Company and relevant contractor on site.
• Coordinates the safe custody of certificates, licenses, legal appointment letters for competent persons and equipment log books.
• Coordinates an Engineering First Aid Team that will acquire special First Aid skills and participates in competitions.
• Ensure that stock levels of Statutory Compliance equipment spares and test equipment are maintained in the warehouse.
• Create new stock for all critical items to ensure minimum effect on production in the event of a failure.
• Oversee the correct and safe usage of all hand tools within the Maintenance section.
• Record and control replacement of tools used for testing and inspections.
• Oversee maintenance of high safety standards on the condition and usage of all test equipment.
• Provide, schedule and coordinate all necessary training to comply with all safety standards and statutory compliance.
• Identify needs for specialised training requirements within the section.
• Other duties as may be assigned by his supervisor.
• Steel structure inspection and record keeping of these structures.

Job Specific Competencies:
• Exceptional knowledge of the Zambian Mining Regulations.
• Excellent English communication skills (read, write & speak)
• Self-disciplined, motivated and organized.
• Exceptional skills in the ability to prioritize workload.
• Ability to work un-supervised on different tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to multi-task when executing different projects.

Key Job Attributes:
• Previous training related to Mining Regulations would be beneficial.
• Ability to perform troubleshooting on Mechanical equipment.

Experience required to perform in this job:
• Minimum Eight years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering (after obtaining qualifications).
• Minimum of four years’ experience in a Fixed Plant Mining Environment.
• Excellent knowledge of Mechanical and Electrical systems.
• Able to read and understand Engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of Mining, Industry and Environmental Regulations.
• Leadership or supervisory skills.
• Computer literate, in Microsoft Computer packages.

Qualifications:
• Minimum grade 12 certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Registered member of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ).
• Registered as a professional Engineer at the Engineering Registration Board of Zambia (ERB).
• A legal qualification will be an advantage.
• Valid Zambian light vehicle driver’s license.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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