Senior Metallurgist

RPO Recruitment is currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Metallurgist to join our client's team. As a Senior Metallurgist, you will play a key role in overseeing and optimizing metallurgical processes to ensure efficient production and high-quality metal products.
Our company is dedicated to providing top-notch recruitment services to our clients. We work with leading companies in various industries, including mining, to help them find the best talent.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage metallurgical talent assigned to technical function in the metallurgical plant
- Assist in ensuring that legal, safety, environmental and hygiene standards are complied with and maintained within the area of responsibility
- Assist in ensuring that all work is planned, scheduled, executed and monitored in accordance with short-and long-term operational objectives, technical standards and procedures, and statutory requirements
- Identification of improvement opportunities, business case development, Scoping and execution of approved improvement projects.
- Analyse relevant processing data the plant, reporting and investigating barriers to effective quality performance, causes of delays and deviations, and ensure mitigating plans are prepared and implemented
- Improve plant operating performance; reduce waste and delays; promote cost reductions; and achieve a high level of operating efficiency;
- Stakeholder management - liaison with maintenance, operational & support function personnel to implement plant optimization projects
- Assist in Managing all plant governance requirements - technical, operational and quality standards audits; and ensures compliance within their section of responsibility
- Management of the budgets and allocate resources efficiently and contribute to cost effectiveness of the operation.
- Standby duties for the operation

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in metallurgical or chemical engineering;
- Minimum ten (10) years of metallurgical experience in gold processing
- Preferably completion of a Management Development Program
- Strong computer skills (i.e. MS Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
- Experience in leading and managing a team
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Knowledge of safety and environmental regulations in the mining industry

**Benefits**:

- Salary: negotiable
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Training & Development
- Paid Time Off (PTO) (if applicable)

Contact RPO Recruitment for your next career opportunity.
- Salary: negotiable.
- Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.

We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.