Mine Superintendent (Southern Africa)

Mine Superintendent

My client is looking to recruit a Mine Superintendent at their open-pit diamond mine in Southern Africa

Responsibilities

·         Ensure SHE Compliance, participate and contribute to SHE meetings and events

·         Ensure safe site declarations, tool box talks daily

·         Ensure SHE standards are applied and adhered to

·         Complete site inspections and ensure similar inspections

·         Ensure SHE programmes are implemented and adhered to by production staff and contractors

·         Implement and Meet Mine Plan

·         Participate in and contribute to weekly mine planning meetings to inform pit planning needs and priorities (e.g. optimisation of production circuits) 

·         Participate in and contribute to daily production meetings to discuss previous day’s activities, what current priorities and needs are, and relevant incident reporting up the line

·         Roll out sequence of production and related activities so that mine plan is achieved

·         Anticipate production problems and constraints, apply discretion to resolve using sound mining principles and techniques, and refer to line manager or relevant structures outside of decision-making ambit

·         Review achievement or otherwise of daily, monthly, annual progressives and deploy resources accordingly to meet under

·         Ensure Optimum Equipment Utilisation

·         Ensure correct allocation of haulage equipment to correct loading machine

·         Ensure haul road is kept in prime condition to optimise circuit times

·         Communicate with earthmoving engineering workshop and MMIC site manager to coordinate prioritisation/scheduling of earthmoving equipment and resources to meet production targets

·         Manage and Monitor People/Contractors

·         Coordinate and/or influence line and contractor resources through instruction, guidance and influence

·         Prioritise activities and follow-up/monitor accordingly

·         Ensure appropriate performance management of line resources and contractors through performance management or monitoring in terms of service level agreements/contracts

·         Ensure high levels of honesty and ethics are maintained by line resources and contractors in the processing and recovery of product

·         Ensure competency and individual development is achieved so that staff resources effectively perform to required process standards and quality assurance, and business goals in this regard are achieved

·         Interdepartmental/Contractor Project Support

·         Divert production equipment and/or materials to meet non-production project needs and requirements without compromising production targets and priorities

·         Communicate with Treatment Management to supply appropriate material for processing

Requirements

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·         Relevant Diploma in Mining Engineering; Relevant Blasting Certificate

·         Light Driver’s Licence

·         5 Years relevant mining/blasting experience in an operations environment

Additional information

Candidates would need to be based in South Africa and do a drive in/drive out to the minesite from Monday – Friday. Travel will be reimbursed at an agreed company scale commuting within the 550km radius from the mine site.

Salaries will be paid in rands and taxed accordingly