Section Manager Plant Technical Services

Section Manager Plant Technical Services

• Full-time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Section Manager Plant Technical. The purpose of this role is to Optimise plant operations and product quality by providing specialist metallurgical support, resolving complex process issues, and leading improvement initiatives safely.

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Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re‑imagine mining to improve people’s lives”, delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible – from mobile phones to medicines.

We produce high‑grade iron ore, the key component in steel widely used in construction and manufacturing across the world. Our activities include all aspects – exploration; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling. In South Africa, we have mining operations in the Northern Cape province, as well as a head office in Centurion, Gauteng, and a port operation in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape.

As our Section Manager Plant Technical your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• 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.

• 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.
• Ensure optimal equipment and process operation.
• Liaises upstream and downstream to provide the best support and input to process performance.

• Support implementation of processing service strategies by executing assigned improvement initiatives, tracking benefits (efficiency/cost),…