Shift Lead, Concentrator Operations

Sibanye Stillwater; United States; In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Sibanye-Stillwater diversity and equal

Competitive pay

Mine-site safety culture

Descrizione del lavoro

Sibanye-Stillwater’s Stillwater Mine seeks a Supervisor - Concentrator to lead day-to-day operations of the concentrator, translating weekly plans into daily shift actions and ensuring safe, compliant production. You will coordinate with Maintenance, Metallurgy, Process Control, and other teams to sustain throughput and recovery.

The role requires strong leadership, safety focus, and hands-on knowledge of concentrator processes, with experience in shift execution and plant performance reporting.

Competenze

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five or more years of progressive concentrator, mineral-processing, metallurgical, or closely related continuous-process operating experience.
• One or more years of experience in a lead, relief-supervisor, trainer, or frontline leadership role.
• Working knowledge of concentrator processes and associated equipment, including crushing, grinding, flotation, slurry systems, thickening, filtration, concentrate handling, and water systems.
• Experience working under mine or industrial safety, environmental, energy-isolation, and operating-procedure requirements.
• Experience using standard office software and electronic production-reporting or process-control systems.
• Required supervisor training, task qualifications, and area-specific certifications must be obtained and maintained as applicable.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree in metallurgy, mineral processing, chemical engineering, mining engineering, operations management, or a related field preferred.
• Three or more years of concentrator or mineral-processing experience, including direct responsibility for shift execution preferred.

Mansioni

• Lead pre-shift safety discussions, workplace examinations, equipment inspections, field-level risk assessments, and verification of required permits, procedures, qualifications, environmental controls, and Lockout, Tagout, and Tryout requirements.
• Maintain visible field presence across assigned process areas each shift; correct unsafe acts and conditions, reinforce stop-work authority, and verify corrective actions.
• Ensure employees and contractors comply with MSHA requirements, company standards, Standard Operating Procedures, Critical Task Analyses, environmental permits, and required training.
• Manage attendance, leave, overtime, relief coverage, timekeeping, conduct, and performance consistently with company policy and the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• Build productive working relationships across shifts and with Mine Operations, Maintenance, Metallurgy, Process Control, Environmental, Safety, Engineering, Supply Chain, and contractors.
• Convert the approved one-week concentrator plan into a clear Daily Shift Plan with assignments, operating targets, equipment priorities, staffing, access requirements, planned maintenance interfaces, and contingency actions.
• Direct and monitor crushing, conveying, grinding, classification, flotation, reagent addition, slurry transfer, thickening, filtration, concentrate handling, water systems, and related utilities within the assigned area.
• Monitor throughput, recovery, concentrate grade and quality, particle size, density, reagent usage, inventories, water balance, equipment loading, alarms, and process trends; direct timely operating adjustments within established standards.
• Inspect operating circuits each shift and work with operators, Metallurgy, Process Control, Maintenance, and Electrical to troubleshoot process, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation issues and minimize avoidable downtime.
• Coordinate equipment shutdowns, isolations, access, start-ups, commissioning, and return to service; verify operating readiness before placing equipment or circuits in service.
• Manage task sequencing, operator deployment, and break-in work within the shift; elevate changes that affect weekly commitments, production risk, staffing, overtime, or environmental compliance to the General Foreman - Concentrator.
• Operate within approved shift cost and resource parameters by managing labor, overtime, reagents, grinding media, consumables, energy, water, tools, equipment, and contractor usage.
• Identify and correct waste, excessive consumption, rework, idle time, and operating practices that increase cost or reduce recovery, quality, or equipment life.
• Ensure shift logs, Daily Shift Plans, production reports, metallurgical results, downtime and delay records, inspections, inventories, environmental records, timekeeping, and incident documentation are accurate, timely, and auditable.
• Provide effective shift passdowns covering plant status, operating strategy, active hazards and isolations, equipment condition, work in progress, process constraints, inventories, environmental concerns, and required follow-up.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Shift planning

Safety risk assessment

Decision making

Mineral processing knowledge

MSHA compliance

Formazione

High school diploma

Associate or bachelor’s degree in metallurgy/mineral processing/related field

Five+ years of relevant experience

Strumenti

Process control systems

Production reporting software

Office software

Descrizione del lavoro

Sibanye-Stillwater’s Stillwater Mine seeks a Supervisor - Concentrator to lead day-to-day operations of the concentrator, translating weekly plans into daily shift actions and ensuring safe, compliant production. You will coordinate with Maintenance, Metallurgy, Process Control, and other teams to sustain throughput and recovery.

The role requires strong leadership, safety focus, and hands-on knowledge of concentrator processes, with experience in shift execution and plant performance reporting.