Process Operations Superintendent

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Part Of Our Team You Will:

• Lead daily process operations to ensure efficient and effective production, maintaining quality standards and meeting production targets.
• Plan and direct plant production volume to meet schedules and delivery dates.
• Coordinate with maintenance plans for plant equipment to ensure production requirements are met.
• Prepare work schedules and ensure that the process equipment is run to give the best economic return between equipment longevity and throughput.
• Coordinate activities with technical, metallurgical and assay departments; maintain metallurgical operations standards.
• Assess opportunities for process optimization and execute improvement plans to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and improve product quality.
• Adhere to all process operations complying with relevant health, safety, and environmental regulations, fostering a culture of safety and environmental stewardship.
• Monitor key performance indicators KPIs for process operations, assess data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Deliver detailed reports on process performance, including production metrics, safety incidents, and improvement initiatives. 
• Write Authorization for Expenditure (AFEs) for capital expenditures that will improve throughputs, reduce costs or improve efficiencies.
• Guide, mentor, and refine the process operations team, providing training and professional growth opportunities to enhance their skills and performance.
• Execute regular performance evaluations, deliver feedback and plan goals to ensure continuous improvement and impactful team morale.
• Responsible for assessing relevant risks, executing mitigation measures, and continuously monitoring for risks.
• Manage Processing contractors to adhere to compliance with project specifications, safety standards, and contractual obligations, while coordinating alignment with organizational goals.
• Manage short term Processing Production Planning.  
• Provide input to Business plan and processing Operational costs.
   

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations): 

• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering or Mineral Processing or related field and equivalent combination of training and experience in leading a large multi-national processing plant.
• Process /Plant/Metallurgical Superintendent’s Certificate of Competency from the inspectorate division of Minerals Commission, Ghana.

Additional Knowledge:

• Detailed knowledge of process operations.
• Strong understanding of site operational requirements.

Experience:

• A combined management or superintendent level experience in the mining industry of construction, commissioning and operational phases of large-scale processing plant.
• Minimum of 10 years’ working experience in a mineral processing plant, with a minimum of 5 years in gold processing and demonstrated expertise in SAG grinding.
• Management and supervisory experience with a large group of employees, (both staff and hourly) in a developing country is preferred 
• Process start-up experience would be a plus.

Problem Solving Ability:

• Monitoring and diagnosing operational processes while observing people or events, working in established systems and processes. 
• Comparing data collected from the operations process with a known model or system.
• Imagining how tasks might be completed without direct, physical, hands-on feedback. 
• Trial & error of solving problems may not be sufficient.
• Extrapolated patterns are regarded as information. 
• Improving working methods using significant data and patterns; determining whether a diagnosis is correct or whether it may occur from another pattern. 

Technical Skills:

• Advanced contract management.
• Competent asset management.
• Competent risk management proficiency.
• Competent project management proficiency.

Social Process Skills:

• Self-awareness: Understands own behavior and is aware of impact on others; adapts behavior to suit context and circumstances, reflects on own behavior in a variety of situations, learning from the interactions; requests feedback and identifies areas for improvement and recognizes and accepts the need to put the overall business needs ahead of their own and can deal with the internal conflict/stress that may generate.
• Team process: Understands role as a team member and team leader and can adjust behavior as needed, understands the behavior of other individuals and the effects on the team; resolves conflicts as needed and as a team leader - Fosters a climate that is inclusive and where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate, receive feedback and coaching.
• Collaboration: Establishes and nurtures relationships with stakeholders by listening and asking questions to better understand others, understands how to influence or negotiate with others to achieve productive outcomes and can effectively balance positive interactions with getting the work done.

Your Work Environment:

• The position is located at our Ahafo North mine site.