Job Description
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical or metallurgical engineering, Pr.Eng preferred.
- Relevant post graduate qualifications could be advantageous.
- Modelling thermochemistry of pyrometallurgical processing in FACSTAGE.
 
Experience: 
- Minimum 10 years of overall industry-relevant experience, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience within the field of electric smelting furnace process engineering and process plant design.
- Experience with mass and energy balances for pyrometallurgical processes from first principles through a relevant simulation package like HSC, Metsim.
- Experience in the operation of electric smelting furnaces at a responsibility level that would allow the incumbent to make process decisions would be advantageous.
- Electric furnace commissioning experience
- Good theoretical knowledge of refractory materials and selection.
- Pyrometallurgical test work planning and execution – Bench- to pilot scale.
 
Knowledge: 
- Advanced understanding of process design principles and furnace sizing.
- Primary handling of ores with respect to electric smelting furnaces.
- Pyrometallurgical processing in SAFs / OBFs.
- All aspects of furnace design and operation.
- Industry codes/standards and interdepartmental practices and procedures.
- Pricing, tendering and budgeting principles, tools and control.
- Safety consciousness and application of good practice health and safety.
- Good understanding of best practices in the worldwide smelting industry.
 
Skills: 
- Project scoping, costing, design and detail engineering.
- Project construction, supervision, commissioning and handover.
- Designing and developing new processes and integrating into existing processes.
- Maintaining and modifying existing systems
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
- Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment with design engineers and other internal staff
- Commercial awareness and sound written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Liaising with clients, suppliers, contractors and relevant authorities
- Project managing within cost and time constrained environments
- Understanding and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
- Team leadership skills.
- Listening to, interpreting and understanding feedback from clients and team members.
- Organizational skills, planning, project management and prioritizing ability.
- Interpersonal motivational skills.
- The ability to work under pressure and to achieve deadlines.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES: 
- Provide project related engineering and procurement deliverables and services for studies, tenders and projects.
- Preparation of process designs, Block Floe Diagrams, PFD’s, P&ID’s, and all technical process documents
- Develop and implement systems and procedures and manage support engineers, other discipline personnel and clients to successfully achieve their project objectives.
- Preliminary cost estimates for potential projects and budget proposals.
- Planning, design, specification, procurement, reporting, construction, commissioning and handover of project packages.
- Ensure scopes of works for various projects are correctly specified and matches budget.
- Manage all the resources in the best interest of the company
- Provide technical leadership and maintaining technical quality norms and standards, ensuring that appropriate technologies are incorporated into the designs, and they comply with the relevant engineering standards.
- Co-ordinating designs and drawing with all relevant engineering disciplines.
- Contribute to the development and or refining of all ISO aligned, process systems and procedures.
- Maintain professional registration(s) and keep up to date new technologies as well as changes in the application of current process technologies in the fields operate in.
- Knowledge sharing and transfer on all applicable processes and technologies including the primary and secondary beneficiation of all applicable ores into the products as required by the group clients.
- Compiling and delivering technical papers and presentations to further the company profile in the industry.
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