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Western Cape, South Africa

Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

South Africa

✔Conduct Client needs analysis to establish all workstream requirements and specifications used in deriving a workable service proposal.✔Present, propose and negotiate various alternative approaches as a cost-effective solution to Client workstream requirements.✔Communicate and convey relevant information and correspondence accurately between Client and Head office support.✔Manage client expectations and deploy workstream execution according to expectations in line with deliverable capacity.✔Coordinate the delivery of operational readiness by effectively developing and deploying the approach, systems and processes across processing, engineering, and other services departments.✔Identify and manage business process risk proactively and intuitively.✔Prioritize, plan and track activities and tasks whilst continuously ensuring progress is made towards the adherence of deadlines.✔Delegate and lead workstream support team interface towards delivering identified project milestones. ✔Identify and specify adequate resource requirements and deploy accordingly.✔Manage information flow and communication interface between 3rd parties, workstream support teams and client.✔Provide regular feedback and communicate all relevant information, issues, and risk to superiors.✔Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making processes.✔Collaborate and liaise across project and organizations.✔Continuously gauge and support a reciprocal need for assistance arising within other workstream teams.✔Track, manage and report expenditure in line with established operational readiness implementation budgets.

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✔Carry legal liability towards ensuring compliance in terms of legislation.✔Adhere to managerial duties and ensure effective supervision of the entire process operation according to client and organizational requirements.✔Deploy resources through effective capacity management.✔Practice effective client relations ensuring contractual obligations are met.✔Ensure adherence to organizational Standards, Procedures and COP’s.✔Maximize operation functionality by performing over inspections, monitoring equipment availability, analyzing breakdowns and implementing corrective action and analyze equipment efficiency and propose improvements.✔Maximize production availability and communicate all changes affecting availability to the relative stakeholders ensuring minimum production delays.✔Practice effective task management to deploy required resources towards scheduled execution of duty towards equipment reliability.✔Manage budget through effective cost control practice.✔Coordinate and organize whole workforce in terms of competency, compliance, and transformation entities.✔Accountable for achieving SHE targets and defining safety plans to achieve zero harm.✔Manage all care and maintenance responsibilities in line with contractual obligation to ensure equipment remains maintainable and readily operational.✔Conduct technical reviews on the client’s behalf for flow sheet optimization test work completed by 3rd parties.✔Provide technical input to process flow sheet designs submitted by DRA.✔Provide input from a practical production perspective to detail design and modelling.✔Participate in comprehensive HAZOP studies conducted on optimized process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams.✔Participate and provide input towards design, functional specification as well as control philosophy.✔Assist client in establishing a sustainability compliance framework by providing insight towards COP’s, standards, procedures and KPA’s.

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✔Appointed as a 2.9.2 manager to assist process superintendent in directing and coordinating activities of subordinate supervisors, ensuring operational and maintenance KPI targets of plant are met. ✔Seamlessly relieve process superintendent by adhering to managerial duties, ensuring effective supervision of the entire process operation according to client and organizational requirements.✔Management of legislation including mining (OHSA, MHSA), environmental, plant safety standards and code of practice. Hazard and risk management.✔Practice effective client relations to ensure contractual adherence as far as key performance areas are met.✔Manage projects and drive sustainable metallurgical control and performance systems and technology.✔Daily technical evaluation and monitoring of metallurgical performance through trends and performance evaluation tools.✔Compile monthly metallurgical evaluation reports and ensure compliance of entire metal accounting system.✔Identify and solve process related problems and implement cost saving initiatives through sustainable solutions.✔Provide technical assistance to senior management and drive continuous improvement ensuring plant standards are met.✔Manage and coordinate projects, activities and tasks within the metallurgical department relating to junior metallurgists.✔Implement applicable operating procedures to ensure all operational standards are complying.✔Accountable for achieving SHE targets and defining safety plans to achieve zero harm.

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✔Assist in operational systems implementation during pre-commissioning phase.✔Create sustainable metal accounting system according to AMIRA code of practice.✔Assist in commissioning and optimization processes of the 187.5 kilo ton per month concentrator.✔Participate in cold and hot commissioning activities including crushing, DMS, milling, flotation, column flotation, spirals, filtration, and reagent mixing.✔Participate in base line and issue-based risk assessment establishment as part of risk management practice.✔Conduct control philosophy and functional specification checks.✔Assist in exceeding milestones like plant production nameplate throughput capacity within 30 days after introduction of feed.✔Implement and commission Mintek’s Floatstar level stabilizer, air, and level optimizers as well as grade optimizers, online Blue Cube chrome and PGM analyzers as well as SCADA alarm rationalization.✔Develop and implement plant operational standards and recipes.✔Establish, implement, and evaluate standard operating procedures.

South Africa

South Africa