Friday , March 29 2024

Anglo American Vacancies in Pretoria – Mechanical Infrastructure Engineer

Website Anglo American

Job Description:

The focus will be on the technical management of the Structural/Mechanical/Civil discipline issues and will make use of appropriate expertise to assist with the management thereof. Provide project, operational and maintenance governance across the Smelting and Refining operations in support of the AS&R strategy and business objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Mentor, assist and guide engineers to enable them to execute their duties with a focus on alignment to discipline specific objectives and standard operating procedures.
  • Review the quality of services provided into the BU/OU’s and Sites by internal and external service providers and to undertake initiatives to address poor quality of service.
  • Lead the Mechanical/Structural/Civil Engineering discipline for the effective communication and dissemination of discipline technical and related safety information.
  • Evaluate appropriate technology and facilitate with the implementation as appropriate.
  • Development of a Structural/ Mechanical discipline succession plan in conjunction with the AS&R lead engineers in each of the BU/OU’s and Sites.
  • Develop risk mitigating controls in support of operation-specific exemption requirements (Platinum and Anglo American standards and procedures).
  • Conduct safety, plant, equipment and infrastructure audits at BU/OU’s and/or Sites to identify system and process risks and compliance with standards and specifications.
  • Initiate and lead investigations into safety incidents, instances of significant equipment failure and share learnings across the operations and group.
  • Represent Group/Platinum in engagement with internal and external stakeholders, services providers, OEM’s, consultants and other to ensure alignment with the company’s strategic intent.
  • Support the operations through establishing appropriate QA/QC requirements for outsourced work in plant and equipment structural and mechanical integrity to manage the risk of unreliability
  • Analyse the BU/OU reliability and performance parameters and metrics to determine common physical, systemic and human root causes and solutions that can be rolled out across operations as BU/OU initiatives/projects.
  • Evaluate and advise on the skills status, skills development and resourcing across sites with respect to structural and mechanical engineering.
    Strive for technical excellence through the deployment of standards, specifications and leading practices.
  • Coach, mentor, support and facilitate the implementation of asset maintenance strategies/tactics for plant equipment, structures and spares so as to optimise reliability across the life-cycle in line with business expectations.
  • Maintain, update and disseminate the design criteria and Standards for Mechanical and Structural/Civil disciplines.

Job Requirements:

  • Proactively identifies, mitigates or escalate risks.
  • Plan, Lead, Organise and Control technical solution delivery using a matrix of internal and external providers and stakeholders.
  • Appreciate and understand the requirements of other engineering disciplines and the associated interfaces.
  • Solve technical and operational issues in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
  • Appreciation of the civil discipline from the field applications to integration of information at the Enterprice Resource Planning (ERP, for example SAP) level.
  • Manage, monitors and drives project activities within a specific Project or Operation
  • Optimise performance levels of assets through actively monitoring their operation and creating solutions to encourage sustainable use inclusive conducting analysis, data mining and modelling.

Qualification & Experience:

  • Professional registry with ECSA or equivalent
  • A South African Department of Minerals issued Government Certificate of Competency (Mechanical or Electrical) will be a distinct advantage.
  • An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors/Honours degree or equivalent) in Mechanical/Structural Engineering. A related post-graduate qualification will be viewed favourable.
  • A proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity, including design role/ roles.
  • A qualification in Project Management would be advantageous.

Job Details:

Company: Anglo American

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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