PROCESS ENGINEER

VACANCY: PROCESS ENGINEER

TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT: PERMANENT

GRADE: C-UPPER

DIVISION: SMELTER

CLOSING DATE: 23 APRIL 2025

As a proudly South African company with a global footprint, Rand Refinery is one of the world’s leading Gold and Silver Refiner and operates one of the largest low-grade gold recovery Smelters on the African continent. With over a 100-year history, we have transformed and reshaped value not only in metals but people’s lives too. We’ve spent the last century using innovation to create real competitive advantage for our partners, our communities and our business.

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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

The incumbent will support the Smelter process operations through effective and efficient governance of unit operations investigating strategies to continually improve the profitability of the business unit thus delivering safe, competitive and stable process performance.

Summary Of Key Responsibilities Included But Not Limited To:

• Governance of Smelter blueprint and manage risks of any changes through updates of drawings, SOPs, functional descriptions and control philosophies.
• Provides adequate troubleshooting within Smelter Business Complex through measuring and monitoring trend analysis – SCADA, process, financial, metal accounting.
• Develop Power BI models for data collection, profitability models, complete business cases and trade off study documents for information sharing with the EXCO, Senior Management, Junior and Leadership forums.
• Responsible to generate project user requirement specifications, process flow diagrams, financial cost benefit analysis prior to project moving to stage gate 1.
• Conduct mass, energy, water and utility balances across Smelter.
• Evaluation of the Smelter metal balance from process order reviews, lockups.
• Conduct reviews of sampling and assaying through audits to understand risk of metal variability to business.
• Commissioning and performance testing of new unit operations along with punch list activities and training documentation and personnel.
• Lead investigations related to process, quality and governance incidents.
• Monitor and measure the cost of production for efficiency and continual improvement through best practice and world class implementation.
• Manage compliance to environmental controls.
• Work closely with Evaluation to ensure full understanding of elemental and compound analysis that influence process chemistry and efficiencies.