Senior Manager – Process Plant

Senior Manager – Process Plant
 
The Company
 
Our client is Tanzania’s leading gold producer and lies in the Lake Victoria Gold fields of Northwestern Tanzania, only about 120 km’s from Mwanza City and 20 km’s Southeast of the nearest point of Lake Victoria.  Applications are invited from ambitious, energetic and performance driven individuals to fill in vacant position(s) mentioned below.
 
The Role
 
The role of the Senior Manager Process Plant is to develop and lead an effective site processing team capable of continuously delivering on business objectives and targets whilst further enhancing performance of process operations in a sustainable manner. The successful incumbent is required to manage, prioritize and solve complex business problems, using the resources available.
 
The Key Responsibilities
 

• Drive and lead a SHE management system within the processing plant and TSF.
• Achieve budgeted gold production by maintaining optimal tonnes and recovery under stable plant conditions
• Achieve budgeted plant availability and utilization
• Manage all processing costs within budget
• Drive and lead vibrant and value delivering continuous improvement initiatives within the process plant
• Develop sound short to medium term business plans for processing operations
• Develop and facilitate training programs that aim to meet the training needs of the process plant workforce
• Responsible for performance management of all processing employees

 
The Requirements
 
Qualifications
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Extractive Metallurgy or Chemical Engineering or Mineral Processing Engineering or other equivalent.
• A certificate (or higher) in a management development program is advantageous

 
Technical experience
 

• A minimum of 10 years’ service in large scale processing plant operations, managing plant operations with specific unit operations:
  • Crushing
  • Milling (Ball and SAG circuits)
  • Leaching and Adsorption (CIL/CIP)
  • Elution (ZADRA and/or AARL)
  • Electrowinning and Smelting
  • Tailings Storage Facilities
  • Water Treatment

• Advanced understanding and application of
  • Safety Management Systems
  • Business Planning processes
  • Operations Management
  • Operational Excellence initiatives
  • Metal Accounting
  • Tailings Dam and the regulations that must be adhered to eg. Freeboard and pool management
  • Process Control and SCADA systems and use of data analysis tools such as Capability Histograms, PARETO analysis, EXCEL
  • Project Management

• Technical and project experience covering
  • Developing and managing test work programs for growth studies
  • Conducting trade-off studies on projects
  • Commissioning large-scale processing plants
  • Developing business plans

 
The Rewards
 
The position offers a competitive remuneration package with a 9 weeks on, and 3 week off roster.   Lodgings are modern and secure with meals provided on-si