Section Manager Plant Technical Services

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As our Section Manager Plant Technical your responsibilities will include but not limited to: Safety, Health, and Environment Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities. Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount. Provide an environment for on-site teams to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions. Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks. Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area. Identify PUEs and monitor critical control performance within teams. Embed critical controls into the daily work practices of teams. Manage Safety & Health systems within the work area. Assess the safety leadership capabilities of direct reports. Assess the 'fitness for duty' of team members and take any subsequent necessary action. Engage in physical safety checks, interventions, and coaching. Create safety reports and manage analysis of KPIs based on available data. Report deficiencies and implement plans to address deficiencies. Facilitate continual safety audits to ensure all safety requirements are met. Support site visits by internal and external visitors to ensure adherence to site safety systems (including induction) Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions. Performance and Delivery: Technical support to Plants: Apply and maintain metallurgical process/operating standards in the area of accountability; identify non-conformance, recommend corrective actions, and contribute to updates based on lessons learnt. Provide technical inputs to short- and medium-term operational planning (constraints, risks, opportunities, operating windows and required interventions). Identify and motivate stay-in-business capital needs by compiling technical problem statements, option evaluations, preliminary scopes and supporting data for review and prioritisation. Provide specialist technical support to the operation and projects as required within the area of functioning, i.e. DSO and DMS plant Customer satisfaction index. Throughput achievement. Product quality conformance. Acts as subject matter expert- develops and implements metallurgical blueprint for their area of functioning. Process standards conformance. Advanced process control. Conformance to client requirements. Provide technical input for troubleshooting and solving complex metallurgical problems for specific processes/systems. Contribute to knowledge sharing and best practice transfer. Technical reporting of process performance in the area. Provide SME input into production plans. Ensure optimal equipment and process operation. Liaises upstream and downstream to provide the best support and input to process performance. Plant efficiency (ore utilisation). Optimisation and Improvement of Plant Processes: Support implementation of processing service strategies by executing assigned improvement initiatives, tracking benefits (efficiency/cost), and reporting progress, risks and dependencies. Champion operate-for-reliability practices by supporting defect elimination, participating in RCAs, recommending controls/operating practices, and embedding learnings into standard routines with production teams. Expert level of understanding of installed equipment and processes Improvement of processes as measured against a base. Identify and implement ideas to improve and develop processes and equipment to ensure cost and process efficiency. Take part in multi-functional teams to share expert knowledge to improve and optimise processes. Investigate identified opportunities to determine the potential for improvement or optimisation of plant processes. Implement and monitor approved initiatives for confirmation of desired outcomes. Investigate and resolve all external client queries within a reasonable time. Research and Development of Plant Processes: Input into developing and testing new growth ideas for viability in preparation to be taken through the various project phases. Conformance to growth strategy targets. Metallurgical integrity of projects. Provide metallurgical input to project teams to ensure metallurgical integrity is maintained. Management and execution of projects: Ensure that the necessary preparation activities are done before commencement, such as conducting an in-depth investigation to determine the project's scope & alternatives and make recommendations to achieve project success. Successful project outcomes and delivery. Timeliness of project completion. Accuracy of cash flow forecast. SHE performance of contractors and employees. Monitor and manage project contractors to ensure conformance to the Mine's requirements, safety regulations and standards whe

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