Principal Underground Mining

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa De Beers Group of Companies Full time

**Company Description

With headquarters in London, UK, and operations located throughout the world, Anglo American is truly global. We employ more than 60,000 colleagues worldwide and run mining operations across Southern Africa, North and South America and Australia. Within Anglo American, Group Technical & Sustainability (T&S) represents and drives this future of mining, as industry and world leading technical experts and innovators.

At Anglo American, our purpose is to Re-imagine Mining to Improve People’s Lives. We do this by challenging the status quo and innovating through all parts of the business. From how we target and discovery new mineral deposits, to our FutureSmart Mining technologies that create a leading position in sustainable mining practices.

The Technical and Sustainability (T&S) Underground Mining teams purpose and focus is to support delivery of the Business Strategy within the business units, identifying and executing sustainable operational improvements at a Strategic and Tactical level to deliver increased business margins and Return on Capital Investment through influencing Volume, Quality, Safety and Cost performance.

**Job Description**:

- We are looking for a Principal - Underground Mining. The main purpose of this role will be the identification of opportunities, supporting the sites, projects and business units in the execution of agreed underground initiatives.

The role plays a core part in the P101 strategy - Anglo American’s transformational asset productivity programme, systematically improving the performance of our most value-driving mining processes and other work to set new levels of benchmark performance.

**Key role requirements**:

- Identify and define P101 opportunities for improvement across our operations and projects, develop and execute supporting work programs in conjunction with operating and project teams.
- Provide leadership and direction to sites and business units on mechanisms, systems and procedures to implement and achieve P101 practices for underground mechanised mining operations.
- Make recommendations to technical and operational improvements which includes the adoption of technological and digitalisation / Future Mine requirements to meet sustainability and ambition targets.
- Provide thought leadership to underground mining activities to ensure a realistic range of options are investigated, considered and effectively implemented, with recognition of effective discipline integration and value from synergies

**Qualifications
- Formal Qualifications**
- Essential: Bachelor of Mining Engineering (or Civil Engineering with post Mining qualifications), or post graduate Mining Master’s degree

**Role-specific knowledge/Requirements**
- Experience underground mining leader with:

- strong knowledge, experience and leadership across core mining processes including extraction, material movement, grade management, dispatch and load/fleet management
- underground mining engineering technical functions and
- underground mining cycle activities and processes.
- Experienced across mining process from first principles, supporting bottom-up budgeting processes in derivation of periodic budgets.
- Ability to make recommendations on existing operating practice, systems and technology solutions for both owner operator and contracted mining functions within the business.
- Able to demonstrate practical thinking and problem solving experience to underground mining activities - studies, projects and operations - ensuring practical and operationally executable solutions are implemented.
- Experienced across interpretation of benchmarks, identification of performance gaps and development of targeted, effective plans to achieve measurable improvements for the discipline
- Strong knowledge of commercial / business drivers

**Additional Information
- Who We Are**
We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources - diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel - our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.

**What We Offer**
When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We’re a large, successful multinational company - and we’re still

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