Job Description

Company Description

Company Description

We have an exciting position for a collaborative and innovative Manager Mining who will lead the mining team to deliver safe, sustainable productive outcomes in accordance with annual plans.

People. Process. Performance. You'll keep sight of it all.

Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to xe2x80x9cre-imagine mining to improve people's lives", delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible.

Anglo American Platinum

Our Platinum business mines, processes, and refines the entire range of platinum group metals (PGMs): platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium.

We are the world's leading primary producer of PGMs, which have a range of specialised applications that improve lives across the world - from vehicle fuel cells to jewellery; dentistry to glassmaking; pacemakers to petroleum refining.



As our Manager Mining, your responsibilities will include the following but not limited to:

Business Expectations:

• Provide Mining-specific information as input to the development of the Life of Asset Plan and the Resource Development Plan.
• Break down Group requirements and performance targets to site level, translate into site-specific targets and budgets and communicate to on-site teams.
• Implement and monitor technical and operational improvements which includes the adoption of technological and digitalization / Future Mine requirements to meet sustainability.
• Implement and execute the mining strategy to achieve production targets.

Operational Planning:

• Provide Mining input into site-specific 5-year plan, lead development and ongoing management of the site Mining BP and 1-year budget.

• Review and sign off technical plans and production inputs for budgets and the Operating Master Schedule, ensuring they are based on sound logic with appropriate stretch and actionable planned improvements.
• Work with Corporate/ BU/Technical Services to develop and implement plans and to optimize extraction, material movement and grade management.
• Establish effective communication and feedback processes for Mining teams and key stakeholder groups to ensure people are informed and aware of business objectives, performance and direction in a timely and routine manner.
• Drive continuous improvement of on-site Mining work and cross-functional interfaces required to deliver safe, sustainable and efficient operations.

• Identify benchmarks and best practices for on-site Mining work to set performance goals that will deliver the 1-year budget and 5-year plan.
• Optimize mine operating and management standards and processes to ensure safe, efficient, and productive mining operations and the delivery of benchmark performance.
• Develop and implement tactics and plans to optimize development, production, and support processes, ensuring target specifications and quality measures are met and exceeded.
• Manage across functions to align on business objectives and ensure commitment and responsibility on overlapping business requirements (upstream, downstream and in process).
• Ensure there is an agreed plan in place to deliver improvements to benchmark on all priority Mining equipment within 3 years.

Work Management:

• Effectively lead and manage Mining operations to deliver the budget including all relevant production, safely, environmental, cost and quality targets.

• Manage process and costs to ensure the Mining teams set and deliver the annual budget and production targets safely, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Develop cost awareness within Mining discipline and focus on reducing all process waste.
• Work closely, collaborate proactively and resolve issues jointly with Processing to align tonnage to fragmentation/volume/grade targets and with AS&R to align equipment availability targets, fixed plan infrastructure operational reliability programs.
• Embed systems, targets and processes to effectively track and control execution on a monthly basis, ensuring a high level of compliance to plan across suite of metrics.
• Apply work management principles and processes of AAOM to ensure appropriately detailed operational and execution planning over multiple time horizons.
• Optimize the Dispatch Fleet Management System (and mine management systems) to ensure efficient mining operations in line with plans and the delivery of benchmark performance on priority equipment.
• Review mining equipment fleet selection and equipment performance, considering maintenance/operational performance outcomes and installed system capability/capacity.
• Ensure availability of available or planned fleet (equipment) to deliver challenging mine plans and schedules.
• Provide thought leadership to all 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.

Feedback:

• Identify and embed business initiatives and improvement projects into site operational processes to support delivery of best practice mining performance (P101).

• Use a structured VDT (Value Driver Tree) approach to asset optimization and continuous improvement of Mining performance, incorporating best practice benchmarking and implementation of new practices and technologies to embed and sustain performance.
• Establish systematic suite of real time monitoring, reporting, reconciliation and review in line with the Anglo American Operating Model (Analyze and Improve).
• Ensure that effective management processes are in place to re-align or direct the business to execute in line with plan, and deliver P101 best practice performance on productivity, quality, safety and cost.
• Proactively identify Mining-related challenges and opportunities that new systems, equipment and technology could address.

• Define challenges, opportunities and impact within and beyond the Mining discipline.
• Actively seek expert input from Group subject matter experts who lead solution design.
• Embed new technologies into the on-site Mining work once solution design is execution-ready.

• Support change management processes in implementation of new technologies.
• Establish authorities/resources/performance targets.
• Monitor and measure benefit realization.
• Hold individuals and teams to account as appropriate.

This role is in the Mining department at a Band 5 level reporting to the General Manager

Qualifications

You will be required to have the following:

• BEng Mining / BTech Eng Mining / NHD Metalliferous Mining (essential)
• Mine Managers Certificate of Competency (essential)
• Master's Degree will be an advantage.
• Drivers' License

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• 10 years' experience as a Production / Mine Manager in a Hard Rock Mining environment
• Background in Mechanised Mining will be an advantage
• Medically fit

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.

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 growing all the time.

Inclusion and Diversity
Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How to apply
To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.

Closing date: 28 September 2023

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