Principal, Shutdown & Operational Readiness

Anglo American; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company seeks a Shutdown Manager to optimize plant shutdowns and ensure operational readiness. This role focuses on developing strategies and implementing best practices while maintaining safety and efficiency in operations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience and relevant qualifications in shutdown management within heavy industries.

Qualifications

• 10 – 15 years experience in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness.
• Fluency in Spanish and Portuguese is advantageous.
• High knowledge of mining, oil and gas, or similar heavy industry.

Responsibilities

• Define the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness strategy.
• Ensure safety and quality in delivery at optimal cost during shutdowns.
• Support implementation of best practice frameworks across the organization.

Skills

Shutdown Management

Operational Readiness

Safety Standards

Education

Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent

Tools

Project Management

Asset Management

Job description

Company Description

The strategy of Anglo American is to secure, develop and operate a portfolio of high quality and long-life resource assets to deliver leading shareholder returns. This can be achieved through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, working towards a common purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

Group Engineering and Maintenance provides standards and frameworks aimed at ensuring world class asset planning, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and disposal of assets which drive Operational Excellence in Anglo American. By ensuring these elements are in place we add value to the business in the following ways:

Safety: Our Engineering Technical Standards guide the operations on minimum best practices ensuring our people stay safe. We also drive safety by ensuring our engineering catastrophic risks such as structures and electrical infrastructure are managed proactively.

Operational Excellence: Ensuring that assets are used to their full potential, improving productivity and reducing downtime provides a competitive advantage in reducing our operating costs.

Cost Reduction: By managing assets strategically, Anglo American can minimize unnecessary capital and operational expenses related to asset ownership, maintenance, and replacement. This includes extending the useful life of components and assets, reducing downtime, and avoiding costly emergency repairs.

Job Description

Purpose:

Plant and equipment Shutdowns or Turnarounds are a critical success factor in the delivery of safe production to plan, and an important continuous improvement opportunity. Our planned Shutdowns account for a significant percentage of planned downtime and if not managed optimally will lead to value leakage and safety incidents.

Similarly Operational Readiness is critical in ensuring safe production to plan through effective handover of Shutdowns and Projects to operations, and the inclusion of all Asset Management requirements.

This role will establish and develop a Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Authority to ensure strategies, standards, best practices, and the latest technology are developed and implemented to optimise shutdown durations and to minimize ramp-up and return-to-operations durations, while ensuring zero harm (safety), and quality in delivery at optimal cost.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Define the E&M Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Strategy
• Assess global and cross-industry Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Best Practice and trends applicable to the AA environment.
• Develop, review, revise, rollout, implement and entrench new and existing Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards across AA
• Support AA Business Units in the rollout, implementation and entrenchment of Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards, and procedural application to local environments
• The Shutdown and Operational Readiness Authority shall:
  • Ensure awareness of Shutdowns taking place in the organisation and be part of the shutdown oversight committee.
  • Support and provide oversight of Shutdown Management teams in implementation of Best Practice
  • Take a longer-term view of Shutdown strategy at an AA and Business Unit level, and ensure requirements are adequately accounted for in the annual 5-year plans
  • Convene a Shutdown Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate.
  • Be party to Post Shutdown Reviews and ensure that the Shutdown Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
  • Ensure awareness of Major Projects taking place in the organisation and be part of the Operational Readiness oversight committee.
  • Support and provide oversight of Project Operational Readiness teams in implementation of the Best Practice
  • Convene an Operational Readiness Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate
  • Be party to Post Project Reviews and ensure that the Operational Readiness Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
  • Develop and facilitate a process by which critical stakeholders are aware of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness activities, status, opportunities and risks
  • Set goals (HoShin) for the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness teams
  • Establish a culture of shutdown and ramp-up readiness to ensure safety, quality, cost and schedule outcomes
• Broad Scanning: Understand new developments and trends in the field of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness and devise appropriate strategies to implement in Anglo American.
• Alignment with the AAOM: Ensure that the work in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness (in particular the Work Management and A&I) areas are aligned with the AAOM.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant discipline

Experience

• 10 – 15Year’s experience in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness

Knowledge

• A demonstrated thought leader and highly knowledgeable in Shutdown, and Turnaround Management, and Operational Readiness
• The understanding and application of Asset Management key value drivers for processes across full mine-to-market value chain, safety, sustainability, and interdependence of key levers
• Comprehensive understanding of business drivers & levers linked to the extractive industry or other adjacent heavy industry context.
• Provides a consistent outstanding role model in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety
• Spanish and Portuguese skills is advantageous

Technical Skills

• Extensive experience as a site Shutdown Manager
• Mining, Oil and Gas, Aviation or similar heavy industry management
• Major Project experience with work in the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness field.
• Project Management
• Asset Management
• Strong coaching and mentoring abilities
• Ability to influence at al levels of a complex international orgainisation

Additional Information

Who we are:

We aim to lead industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity, and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of precious natural resources – Copper, Iron ore, Polyhalite, and Diamonds (through De Beers) – our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers, and the world at large.

How we are committed to your safety

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies – from drones to data analytics – that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of the process.