Job Description

Company Description

Join us as a Senior Foreman Mechanical Surface where you will be responsible for correcting and leading the maintenance team and ensuring compliance to Health and Safety Standards as per Occupational Health and Safety Act whilst appointed as a Reg 2.(7) (a) appointee.

Be part of the team. The team that makes it happen.

Anglo American has a portfolio of world-class mining operations. We mine, process, move and market the essential ingredients that enable a cleaner, more connected world and that meet fast growing consumer-driven demands for products from smartphones to electric cars. Our basic materials build homes, offices, railways and airports, and our diamonds fulfil people's dreams.

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 specialized applications that improve lives across the world - from vehicle fuel cells to jewelry; dentistry to glassmaking; pacemakers to petroleum refining.



The person in this role is responsible for managing and providing engineering supervisory, budget, legal, safety and technical services. This is a front-line management role, based at a PGM-smelting operation. Specifically at the off-gas (SO2) abatement section of the operation. The front-line manager has various responsibilities and key performance indicators (KPIs), mostly targeted at effective and efficient maintenance management. The FLM has a team of artisans reporting to them continuously, and hence the FLM is responsible for the management of this team in all aspects of their performance.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Operation Management team in developing an operational plan for the year to support the process in achieving throughput objectives
• Undertake to plan the spares requirements according to the planned maintenance schedule and ensure their availability (with the help of a resource coordinator and planning team)
• Liaise with the Operation management team regarding daily, weekly and monthly progress to plan, budget, and employee resources
• Enforcing compliance to relevant operating and maintenance procedures, managerial instructions, OHSA, SANS and GTS-group technical standards. Oversee and ensure the quality of workmanship and conduct regular inspections around the section and the operation so that expected equipment availability is ensured.
• Ensuring all work is carried out to an acceptable quality standard, safely and on time.
• Plan daily, weekly and monthly work requirement and priorities with the operational team
• Identify operational priorities within the section that would ensure the optimization of the section's performance
• Oversee that the required material, equipment, spares and staff are available to achieve the output
• Coordinate small to medium projects and routine shutdowns.
• Budget setting and control.
• Contractor management.

This role is in the Engineering Department at a Band 7 level reporting to the Section Engineer - SO2 Abatement Plant

Qualifications

• Engineering Foreman Certificate as per Anglo American
• Mechanical Trade Certificate
• Millwright Trade Certificate will be advantageous
• Certified Competent 2.9.2.

Experience:

• Two years plus experience required as Foreman,
• Smelter or Acid plant experience is advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Computer literate in full MS Office
• Good analytical and decisions making skills
• Good organizing and planning skills
• Facilitate, create and approve proper risk assessments
• Knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA)
• Leadership and motivational skills
• Good verbal and other communication skills
• SAP basic skills will be advantageous
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical equipment used in process plants
• Knowledge of various materials and their applications will be advantageous (e.g. various steels and plastics)
• Plant and equipment faultfinding and basic root-cause analysis (RCA) skills
• Valid driving license

Additional requirements will include:

• English literacy - speak, read and write.
• Must be able to do standby for the smelting complex, overtime and if required, shift work.
• Will be required to undergo a Medical Fitness Test

Additional Information

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 to move onwards and upwards too. We're a large, successful multinational company- and we're still growing all the time.

Who we are

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customer around the world.

As a responsible miner- of diamond (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel - we are the custodian of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operator and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people's lives.

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 equal opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

Closing date: 28/09/2023

Anglo American