Senior Metallurgist

**Introduction**

This position will be based in the Saldanha Bay Municipality area in the Western Cape.

**Description**

The purpose of this position is to continuously monitor production outputs and optimise process efficiency in line with plant capacity and sound processing principles.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Ensure that Process activities are integrated and coordinated.
- Establish process data monitoring, automation, reporting, and accounting systems.
- Comply with provided systems, practices, methods, standards, and procedures of the work.
- Ensure the adherence to the specified process parameters within the respective sections.
- Effective trouble shooting and RCA in case of systems, processing, and equipment deviations.
- Identify, diagnose and analyze deviations and consult with the Supervisor / Management prior to implementing changes.
- Provide technical and production support and advise to responsible Supervisors / Management.
- Conduct research (literature or practical) on specific topics received from the Process Superintendent / Plant Manager or Client
- Conduct test and project work in the laboratory and do physical tests in the plant and consolidate test results with past reports and other findings.
- Conduct cost analysis exercises to evaluate the viability of implementing projects and make necessary recommendations for changes in the process.
- Perform administrative duties to ensure record accuracy and availability and budget compliance.
- Drive continuous process performance improvement initiatives.
- Submit monthly technical metallurgical plant performance reporting and feedback

**Qualification Requirements**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgy or Chemical Engineering
- Valid driver’s licence code B, EB or C1

**Experience and Skills Requirements**
- 5 - 8 years’ technical and production experience in a hydrometallurgical mineral processing environment, of which 2 years’ must be as a Plant Metallurgist
- Technically skilled in froth flotation process
- Process modelling and process control experience would be advantageous.
- Oxide flotation experience would be advantageous.
- Computer literate and highly skilled in MS Office suite
- English language proficiency
- Presentation skills
- Time management skills
- Attention to detail.
- Employee Relations and People Management skills
- Supervisory skills
- Financial management skills
- Technical reporting skills
- Data analytic skills