Plant Day Supervisor-Goldroom-Gravity-Plant Services at AngloGold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited

About The Job

Role Purpose & Context:

• The role holder will ensure the final product of the process plant comes out in the form of bullion and assist in the dispatch of same.
• He/she will liaise with the shift team to ensure the elution schedule is properly followed right from CIL carbon management to electrowinning cycles.
• The role demands decisiveness, sacrifice, commitment and excellent organizational skills.

Key Accountabilities:

• Actively promote and partake in all Health, Safety and Environmental programs as set out by AGAG Obuasi.
• Accountable for his or her own safety and the safety of all employees on the mine including his direct reports and contractors.
• Closely monitor all PPEs used in reagent handling, goldroom and gravity circuit are available in their right qualities and quantities for use.
• Enforce all environmental work procedures that have been issued by the Departmental Manager.
• Accountable for team’s environmental obligations and performances.
• Conduct formal meetings with team and report any weaknesses in the environmental procedures.
• Assist in developing and periodic review of SOPs related to his or her area of accountability.
• Socialize SOPs and other operational document related to his/her area of responsibility to his direct reports.
• Research into best practices and be updated with new and improved approach to operating gold room and gravity circuit.
• Be the custodian of all gold room related activities, including electrowinning cells efficiencies, calcine oven smelting furnace management.
• Liaise with security team to ensure the security of the bullion, concentrates, gold bearing materials and other valuable in the gold room.
• Ensure the bullion records and other important records are not released to people who are not entitled to them.
• The incumbent shall ensure relevant stocks are kept for critical consumables in the goldroom, gravity circuit and general plant reagents and raise the alert the department of any likely shortage.
• With the assistance from department management and shift team develop weekly and monthly ounces production strategies and ensure they are achieved by following through the right elution and gravity performance
• Liaise with the maintenance team to ensure timely attendance/addressing of any issue that may lead to unavailability of the gold room, elution and gravity circuits and escalate any such concerns.
• Accountable for the in-plant reagent staging area, organize for the preparation and making available reagents needed for the operation of the plant.
• The incumbent and his/her direct reports shall attend to plant "bushfires". Assist with all major day activities/task including major housekeeping activities on the plant.
• The day supervisor shall ensure a healthy work relation between the shift team and day services team to facilitate good information sharing between the two disciplines.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
Qualification:

• BSc/Diploma. Metallurgical, Chemical, or Materials and mechanical Engineering with 2 years process plant experience.
• Qualification from a secondary school or A-level with 5years process plant supervisory experience could be considered.
• Basic First Aid Certification will be a plus.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years working experience on a recognized process plant.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience with cyanide sparging/mixing and storage facility.
• Mobile equipment operating experience will be a plus.
• Minimum of 2 years goldroom experience
• Previous experience with gravity plant operation.
• Previous knowledge/experience with process plant reagents

Technical Competencies:

• Good computer skills
• Must be able to understand and appreciate the hazards associated with process plant reagent and gold room activities.
• Good communication skills.

Leadership Competencies:

• Self-motivated/driven to achieve targets and improve the status quo.
• Good leadership skills and must carry along his team to achieve target.
• Good conflict resolution skills