Operational Readiness Engineer

About Mventech Group

Mventech Group is a dynamic and growing mining and resources consulting firm headquartered in Centurion, Gauteng. We partner with clients across project sites to deliver innovative, design‑led, and technically rigorous consulting solutions. Our culture is built on expertise, integrity, and a commitment to developing the next generation of industry professionals. At Mventech, we live our tagline:
Innovate
· Design
· Consult.

Mventech Group is seeking a technically grounded Operational Readiness Engineer to support mining and infrastructure projects through the critical transition from construction and commissioning into safe, stable, and sustainable operations. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who understands what it takes to prepare people, systems, procedures, and support structures for operational handover, and who can work with credibility across project, engineering, and site teams.

In a firm that pairs rigorous consulting with practical delivery, you will contribute directly to some of the most consequential phases of a mining project’s lifecycle while helping to build a distinctive operational readiness capability within Mventech.

• Develop and maintain Operational Readiness Plans aligned with project study phases, design development, construction, commissioning, and handover milestones, ensuring readiness is embedded into project execution from the outset.
• Define and coordinate readiness work streams, deliverables, interfaces, and priority actions across people, processes, systems, documentation, equipment, and organisational capability.
• Maintain readiness schedules, trackers, dashboards, and reporting tools that give project and client teams early visibility of progress, constraints, and critical‑path activities.
• Work across engineering, project, construction, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure operational requirements are incorporated into delivery and that systems, procedures, and support structures are verified and ready before start‑up.
• Prepare and review Standard Operating Procedures, work instructions, operational philosophies, readiness checklists, and governance documentation that underpin safe and disciplined operations after handover.
• Support workforce and organisational readiness by coordinating training plans, competency development activities, role‑clarity processes, and familiarisation programmes to ensure operational teams are prepared and confident at start‑up.
• Contribute to operational excellence by helping establish management operating systems, performance review routines, and short‑interval control principles that strengthen operating discipline following handover.
• Identify and manage operational readiness risks by developing mitigation actions, contingency plans, and monitoring tools that reduce the likelihood of start‑up delays, safety incidents, or poor ramp‑up performance.
• Prepare operational readiness reports, client presentations, punch‑list close‑out documentation, and action registers, and communicate clearly with project, operations, engineering, and client stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Strengthen Mventech’s operational readiness capability by documenting lessons learnt, refining tools and templates, and contributing to the firm’s methodologies across future projects.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (NQF
  8) in Mining, Mechanical, Industrial, Process, or a related technical discipline.
• A minimum of seven years’ relevant experience in mining, heavy industry, or infrastructure project environments.
• Practical, hands‑on exposure to mine operations, commissioning, start‑up, or transition‑to‑operations activities, whether in underground or open pit environments.
• Demonstrable ability to develop and maintain operational readiness plans, workstream trackers, procedures, and handover documentation.
• Experience working across engineering, project delivery, construction, commissioning, and operational teams in an integrated delivery environment.
• Familiarity with the Mines Health and Safety Act and the statutory safety requirements applicable to mining and engineering activities.