Metallurgist

The role is responsible to optimise and continually improve the processing technical integrity of the section by providing technical input with a 1 – 2 year timeframe to the Metallurgical Technical Engineer Processing.

Roles and responsibilities include the below:

• Supports the site Technical function through a disciplined focus on business improvement and integrated planning, ensuring that health and safety is not compromised.
• Provide people technical and operational support within the site by assisting all employees with the technical processing experience and site specific knowledge required to fully embed and realise the continuous improvement of processes, systems and equipment through the use of Feedback tools such as Analyse and Improve and Defect Analysis
• For areas within the site, assist in discerning and identifying trends and leading indicators through disciplined use of Feedback principles and the use of data and in field observations of technical problems which may lead to a reduction in operating efficiency or put at risk the integrity of the overall operation.
• Support the Technical team to ensure overall integrity, sustainability and reliability of the site through the implementation, measurement and monitoring of technical specifications through the plant recipe
• Support required compliance governance in the context of the discipline on a sectional level, through the implementation and management of assurance systems, feedback management routines and discipline specific trigger action response plans for areas as defined by Technical superiors.
• Ensure compliance to Valterra Platinum internal and external compliance (legislative, regulatory, permitting) requirements

This role is at a Band 6/10 level reporting to the Metallurgical Technical Engineer