Process Plant Superintendent

CONTEXT AND PURPOSE OF THE ROLE The Process Plant superintendent is accountable for the profitable, safe and effective optimised operation of the plant and the management of its teams. Ensure that all activities of the Process Plant, TSF and ROM Pad Teams are optimized to deliver production at reasonable cost. ACCOUNTABILITIES & AUTHORITIES OF THE ROLE Process plant superintendent has the following authorities and accountabilities: • Issue of and compliance with PPE requirements. Control of proper use of PPE for process plant employees. • Safety, Health and Environmental risk management for each operational task to be undertaken. • Report all spills of oil as they can interfere with gold recovery processes and ensuring safe and proper tools and equipment storage. • Controlling and advising on ROM pad management. liaise on a daily basis with Technical Services Department to ensure an optimum blended ore are been delivered to the plant as per mining plan, crushing and monitoring circuit performance and setting to ensure required product size is achieved. • Ensures that the Process department follows the Shanta standard metallurgical accounting procedures and guidelines and managing metallurgical laboratory. • Monitoring of cyanide discharge to TSF to ensure ICMI compliance. Planning and conducting relevant cyanide detox test work for suggesting possible ways to achieve IMCI compliance. • Water Treatment and quality checks to ensure right quality of water is produced, equipment operation and maintenance for smooth and efficient operation. • General cost awareness and drive to reduce costs; proper equipment utilization, specify reagents and balls usage for operational staff, in accordance with ore type, and specifying optimum frequencies for carbon regeneration and acid wash without compromising efficiencies. • Identifying developmental needs and training of plant operators to improve skilled knowledge and preparing programs for operators with assistance from Training Officer and Shift Superintendent. • Contribution to the operators training modules on technical side, e.g. control of crushing and mill operating parameters and sampling. REQUIRED SKILLED KNOWLEDGE Qualification: • BSc. in Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, Mineral Processing or equivalent Experience: • Minimum of 5 years of working experience in the Gold Process. • Experience of gold processing plant operations; specifically crushing circuits, mills, CIL and preferably CIP, elution, electro winning, smelting and TSF. • Minimum 5 years of mineral processing experience overall with at least 2 years' experience in a Supervisory capacity • Excellent supervisory skills and experience Must have relevant knowledge of: • Gold plant treatment • Milling and CIL • People management and development • Mets accounting • Gold Room and Elution plant operations • TSF operations APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Application submission deadline is two weeks from the date of this advertisement, that is 4th Oct, 2016. Applicants are invited to submit their Resumes and certificates (indicating the position title in the subject) to: HR Manager Shanta Mining Company limited P.O. Box 79408, Dar es Salaam

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