Head of Plant

7 months 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. 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.

At Anglo American Engineering & Maintenance is more than the maintenance or care of physical assets; it is a part of the core business of the organisation to ensure the assets perform their required function and allow Anglo American to meet its strategic, operational and compliance requirements.

**Job Description
- The Role**

We are seeking a **Head of Plant **who will lead and drive excellence in Plant Maintenance Management, improving safety, performance (MTFB) and cost in our processing plants.

This role will be working across Anglo American's global operations and can be based UK, South Africa, Australia, Chile, Peru or Brazil. Regular international travel will be required.

**Key role requirements**:

- Lead and manage the Plant specialist team, provide guidance, support and overarching strategy.
- Develop and execute strategic plans and objectives for the Plant in alignment with AA's overall goals.
- Oversee the design, development, and implementation of Process Plant projects, ensuring their successful execution.
- Establish and maintain a central governance of Plant Master Data ensuring excellence in our service strategies and tactics on commonly used equipment.
- Collaborate with other departments to identify and address engineering-related needs and challenges.
- Ensure compliance with and develop relevant Process Plant standards, codes, and regulations in all projects and operations.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the Process Plant team.
- Benchmark AA Process Plants internally and externally.
- Maintain relationships with Process Plant Suppliers, with a clear purpose of continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to support a high quality of maintenance execution, and extension of component life.
- Manage the aggregation of Process Plant specialist in order to support best-in-class guidance and expertise.
- Oversee the process of the Process Plant specialists developing and owning baseline asset tactics and service strategies.

**Qualifications**:

- An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline
- A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in a Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
- Registered Professional Engineer

**Role-specific knowledge/Requirements**
- Significant knowledge of work management, major maintenance projects (e.g., shutdowns, refurbishing/overhauls etc.) OEM strategies, equipment strategies, operational readiness, maintenance supply processes and MARC management.
- Thought leader in the field of Maintenance Management reporting and analysis in a complex, matrix structured global resources organisation.
- Demonstrated experience in a senior people leadership role within a complex technical environment, including the coordination of knowledge sharing across a discipline, managing workload and reviewing the work of others to ensure consistency with task requirement.
- Act as a thought leader for technical analysis and support operations and projects globally.
- Translate insights of the global markets into technical solutions to enhance the economics of the mining value chain.
- Knowledge of the mining and process equipment including technology development activities.
- International best practice in the maintenance field particularly as applied to the resources industry.
- Provides consistent outstanding behaviour in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety.
- Fluency in English. Proficiency in Portuguese and/or Spanish language skills would be highly advantageous.

**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 c


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