Supervisor Metallurgy Plant - Rustenburg

Job summary

The Supervisor Metallurgy Plant will be responsible for planning, executing, and supervising all day-to-day process and maintenance activities in their area of responsibility. They will also be accountable for ensuring the safe achievement of set safety, production, environmental, and metallurgical efficiency and cost targets.

Responsibilities

• Plans, executes, and supervises all day-to-day process and maintenance activities in their area of responsibility
• Conducts work planning and ensures availability of resources
• Changes and optimizes practices and procedures
• Ensures compliance to all mandatory codes of practice
• Ensures that the cyanidation process in the plant complies with the ICMI code of practices
• Be responsible for maintaining housekeeping in their areas of responsibility
• Ensures aims and objectives of the Mine's Health & Safety Act are achieved in area of responsibility
• Provide accurate raw data to enhance the decision-making process of the next upper level
• Solve day-to-day problems to ensure Production targets are met
• Ensure potential breakdowns are identified, supervised, and proactively prevented
• Enforce discipline in their areas of responsibility to employees under their charge
• Ensure accurate sampling and preparation for Metal Accounting purposes
• Ensure compliance with TSF Critical Controls
• Perform standby duties
• Domain workflow ensuring output is achieved
• Ensure workflow is optimized in line with changes in technology or output requirements
• Monitoring and controlling process variables within defined parameters
• Ensure there are no deviations from policies and procedures and process requirements are adhered to
• Identified failures by Shift teams through the Job card system are attended to and rectified
• Provided technology is optimally applied
• Ensure installed technology is utilized according to manufacturers' specifications
• Ensure an awareness of risks and hazards associated with the technology
• Stakeholder Relations
• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across the organisation and externally at all levels and cross-functionally
• Ensuring open communication channels with all relevant stakeholders
• Sourcing, contracting, and negotiating with service providers
• Liaising with the necessary entities on any environmental management related requirements and alignment where applicable
• Collaborating with external service providers regarding the design and implementation of tools to enhance processes
• Financial Management Working Cost Budgets
• Formulating monthly and annual budgets in line with business requirements and financial objectives
• Leading and driving cost-saving and cash conservation initiatives
• Cost control to be in line with approved budget, without compromising section performance
• Building a values-based organisational culture
• Actively support and meaningfully participate in the execution of the segment-specific organisational development plan
• ESG Compliance
• Align to international responsible mining principles
• SA Gold Operations
• Align to World Gold Council (WGC) Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs)
• SHE Compliance
• Maintain and comply with SHE standards within the work environment
• Participate in risk assessments and investigate and take appropriate action as per identified risks
• Ensure adherence to all company policies and procedures
• Effective PPE is used according to standard procedures
• Accidents/incidents are reported and eliminated
• High safety ratings are achieved
• Metallurgical practices are performed according to standards and procedures
• Work assessment is done according to standards and procedures
• Perform Self Audits to identify and rectify hazards/risks in area of responsibility
• SHE Management
• Instil a culture of SHE leadership within the department
• Quality Management System (QMS)
• Approve department's documents
• Comply with requirements of the Quality Management System
• Focus on safe production & operational excellence
• Focus on safety and health as well as operational excellence
• Improve our position on global industry cost curve
• People Management
• Provide coaching and on-the-job training to reporting staff
• Manage performance and development of reporting staff
• Ensure fair work allocation for team members
• Inspire team members towards high performance
• Plans and structures tasks over periods of time
• Ensures a working environment in which employees can be motivated, strong leadership
• Conducts daily safe production meetings with subordinates
• Conducts planned task observations and over inspections
• Manage attendance of reporting staff e.g. non-available, short/long shifts, leaves etc.
• Manage and enforce discipline in area of responsibility
• Chair disciplinary cases as and when required
• Additional Requirements
• Have practical experience working in a conventional gold Metallurgical Plant
• Certificated
• Crushing, Milling, Extraction, CIP, Smelting, TSF courses
• Knowledge of COUPA

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