Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Engineering (Production/Civil/Mining) or a related discipline.

• A minimum of twenty-one (21) years work experience in mining operations.

Skills and Competencies

• In-depth understanding of mining principles and practices.

• Well developed personnel management skills.

• Excellent investigative, analytical, problem solving and lateral thinking skills to improve mining operation practices.

• Supervise the activities of heavy equipment operators, drillers, blasters and other workers in mining

• Ensure the implementation of short term production plans and targets are achieved.

• Coordinate the preparation and ensure adherence to mine plans and schedules

• Establish methods to meet work schedules and confer with managerial and technical personnel, other departments and contractors to resolve problems and co-ordinate activities.

• Develop and maintain life of mine plans for all operations with input from all operations and manage the successful implementation of these plans

• Ensure that all the raw material tons requirement for the factory at the correct quality aims are continually met without negatively affecting the mining equipment utilisations.

• Coordinate with the Head, Mines to set production quotas, to plan extraction sites and to develop policies for the removal of raw materials.