AngloGold Ashanti Recruitment for Plant Manager

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for AngloGold Ashanti Recruitment for Plant Manager – Technical.

AngloGold Ashanti is a global gold mining company with mines and exploration projects in four different regions namely – Continental Africa, Americas, Australasia and South Africa. The underground mining operation will be fully mechanized, designed to produce up to an average maximum of 5,000 t/day of ore mined.

Job Description

Company: AngloGold Ashanti
Location: Ghana
State: Accra
Job type: Full-Time

Role/Purpose

The purpose of the role is to guide the Plant Manager – Operations to maintain and improve the efficiencies of the production department at the South Treatment Plant to maximize the following function:

Revenue = Run Time x Tons Per Hour x Au grade x Recovery – Costs

This role is both forward looking to suggest improvements and predict possible future challenges and to provide guidance of future plant modifications which improve performance. The role also requires data analysis and trending to identify deviations from the desired standards.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Actively promote Health, Safety and Environmental actions and improvements
Contribution into EIA and permitting procedures
International Cyanide Management Institute compliance
Compliance with Legal Instruments (LI’s) and Codes as laid down by the Republic of Ghana
Analysis of Tailings Facilities operations data
Constant monitoring and recommendations of adjustment of plant performance to achieve Monthly KPI’s
Achieve Au production targets
Achieve Throughput targets
Minimise downtime
Achieve recovery efficiency targets
Cost control of production within the processing budget targets including but not limited to reagent consumption, labour costs and other expenses
Develop / implement and Maintain metallurgical accounting system
Daily, weekly, monthly and annual gold accounting reports
Long term historical data for technical review and reference
Strategic and ad-hoc test work
Develop budget for upcoming periods and monitor performance according to current plan
Develop strategic career paths and succession planning for your subordinates
Develop and maintain an up to date training system for use by all employees in the Processing Department
Develop performance management set points and targets for your subordinates
Maintaining discipline, performance management
Constant assessment and challenging of the status quo to identify and align operations to best practice
Prediction of impending process upsets with possible remedies / preventions
Frequent analysis of historical parameters to align and improve upon best historical operations level

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science – Extraction Metallurgy or similar / equivalent

Experience

15 years of which 5 have been in a management position
Experience and understanding of total mining cycle.

Technical Competencies

Proven Management of plant performance and efficiency
Budgeting and cost control
Production scheduling and optimization
Proven knowledge of Metallurgical Accounting with the implementation of databases
Demonstrable knowledge of metallurgical processes such as, but not limited to, size reduction, flotation, adsorption/desorption, hydrometallurgy,
Proven knowledge and implementation of security controls of a gold processing plant
Proven knowledge of equipment selection and process design
Proven knowledge of engineering principles of various equipment types.

Leadership Competencies