Section Manager Plant Technical Services

As our Section Manager Plant Technical your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
  • Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount.
  • Provide an environment for on-site teams to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions.
• Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.

• Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area.
• Identify PUEs and monitor critical control performance within teams.
• Embed critical controls into the daily work practices of teams.

• Manage Safety & Health systems within the work area.

• Assess the safety leadership capabilities of direct reports.
• Assess the 'fitness for duty' of team members and take any subsequent necessary action.
• Engage in physical safety checks, interventions, and coaching.
• Create safety reports and manage analysis of KPIs based on available data.
• Report deficiencies and implement plans to address deficiencies.
• Facilitate continual safety audits to ensure all safety requirements are met.
• Support site visits by internal and external visitors to ensure adherence to site safety systems (including induction)

• Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.

Performance and Delivery:

• Technical support to Plants:
• Apply and maintain metallurgical process/operating standards in the area of accountability; identify non-conformance, recommend corrective actions, and contribute to updates based on lessons learnt.
• Provide technical inputs to short- and medium-term operational planning (constraints, risks, opportunities, operating windows and required interventions).
• Identify and motivate stay-in-business capital needs by compiling technical problem statements, option evaluations, preliminary scopes and supporting data for review and prioritisation.

• Provide specialist technical support to the operation and projects as required within the area of functioning, i.e. DSO and DMS plant
  • Customer satisfaction index.
  • Throughput achievement.
  • Product quality conformance.
• Acts as subject matter expert- develops and implements metallurgical blueprint for their area of functioning.
  • Process standards conformance.
  • Advanced process control.
  • Conformance to client requirements.
• Provide technical input for troubleshooting and solving complex metallurgical problems for specific processes/systems.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practice transfer.
• Technical reporting of process performance in the area.
• Provide SME input into production plans.
  • Ensure optimal equipment and process operation.

• Liaises upstream and downstream to provide the best support and input to process performance.

• Plant efficiency (ore utilisation).

Optimisation and Improvement of Plant Processes:

• Support implementation of processing service strategies by executing assigned improvement initiatives, tracking benefits (efficiency/cost), and reporting progress, risks and dependencies.
• Champion operate-for-reliability practices by supporting defect elimination, participating in RCAs, recommending controls/operating practices, and embedding learnings into standard routines with production teams.
• Expert level of understanding of installed equipment and processes

• Improvement of processes as measured against a base.

• Identify and implement ideas to improve and develop processes and equipment to ensure cost and process efficiency.
• Take part in multi-functional teams to share expert knowledge to improve and optimise processes.
• Investigate identified opportunities to determine the potential for improvement or optimisation of plant processes.
• Implement and monitor approved initiatives for confirmation of desired outcomes.
• Investigate and resolve all external client queries within a reasonable time.

Research and Development of Plant Processes:

• Input into developing and testing new growth ideas for viability in preparation to be taken through the various project phases.

• Conformance to growth strategy targets.
• Metallurgical integrity of projects.

• Provide metallurgical input to project teams to ensure metallurgical integrity is maintained.

Management and execution of projects:

• Ensure that the necessary preparation activities are done before commencement, such as conducting an in-depth investigation to determine the project's scope & alternatives and make recommendations to achieve project success.
  • Successful project outcomes and delivery.
  • Timeliness of project completion.
  • Accuracy of cash flow forecast.
  • SHE performance of contractors and employees.
• Monitor and manage project contractors to ensure conformance to the Mine's requirements, safety regulations and standards when performing their work.
• Execute projects based on well-established project management principles, i.e. cost management

Sustainability and Social:

• Support implementation of site sustainability requirements within the discipline by coordinating assigned initiatives, actions and deliverables.
• Identify and escalate discipline-related environmental and social risks, and support mitigation actions through controls, procedures and work practices.
• Monitor and report progress against agreed sustainability actions and compliance requirements, highlighting deviations, risks and corrective actions.
• Promote team awareness of sustainability expectations through toolbox talks, coaching and inclusion in planning and review routines.
• Support consistent sustainability messaging in stakeholder engagements by providing technical inputs and participating in engagements as required.

People and Teams:

• Support the integration of a purpose-led, high-performing culture within teams, embodying company values, inclusivity, and diversity through active engagement, implementation of effective team processes, reinforcement of culture through discipline-specific systems and behaviours, leadership in day-to-day communications, and the implementation of robust employee and contractor management processes.

Compliance:

• Ensure comprehensive compliance management within the work area, encompassing adherence to external local requirements, Anglo American compliance standards, and governance protocols.

This role is in the Processing (PRO) Department at a band 6/12. (D4/D5) The role reports to the Manager Processing