Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 28, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the role:
To build, develop, and lead an effective team capable to deliver the strategy to transition Geita Gold Mine to a major underground operation, to be executed in line with specific instructions from Senior Manager – Underground Mining and requirements of relevant Tanzanian Mining Legislation

Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Mining Engineering (BEng) or an equivalent tertiary qualification.
• Underground Mine Managers Certificate.
• Site Entry requirements which may include mines Health Surveillance.
• GGML is an equal opportunity employer: Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Experience:
• 10+ years’ proven experience in mine production in underground mining environment of which at least three (3) years is at management level within an underground mine department.
• Experience working with International UG mining contractors who operate underground mechanized trackless equipment will be highly regarded.
• Proven experience and ability to create and manage budgets for a UG operation.
• High skill level with UG mine planning experience.
• Demonstrated experience in an underground mining production environment.
• Proven track record of managing and leading large and diverse teams
• Hands on approach and service orientated outlook.

Main or key accountabilities:
Safety:
• Identify and interpret safety risks and resolve emerging issues; and ensuring that appropriate focus and resources are available to achieve safety objectives.

Mining Production Processes & Practices:
• Understands key underground production and development processes in large scale trackless mining environments.
• Knows when to engage Specialist’s support.
• Understanding of safe and effective underground production practices, management, support systems.
• Establishing Paste and CAF infrastructure in Underground environment.
• Commissioning Underground Paste and CAF operations in underground environment.
• Able to manage performance based on interpretation of data and can initiate and drive the operational improvements as required.
• Demonstrated ability of delivering to production and cost targets.

Operational Management:
• Ability to effectively lead and communicate to all levels of the team.
• Understands key processes and systems to drive the best performance from all team members.

Working with and managing U/G mine contractors:
• Training and developing new and inexperienced workers to become safe and effective underground.
• Understanding of the key skills & knowledge required by all team members in order to carry out their roles effectively and safely.
• Demonstrated ability of being able to identify and develop emerging talents within a multi-discipline team.
• Strong understanding of mining cost drivers and their impact to the overall financial results of the operation.
• Ability to develop operational budgets in consultation with Senior Underground Manager and other service departments.

Planning:
• Understanding of good mine planning processes and the ability to drive the establishment of required planning systems and approaches.

Contract Management:
• Strong knowledge in underground contract management practices and demonstrated ability in managing underground mining contracts.

Project Management:
• Understands AGA project management standards and has applied them in a minor project to conceptual level.
• Ability to lead a minor project and interact with test work and engineering consultant service providers.

Innovation:
• Thinks creatively to develop multiple, workable options.
• Generates innovative solutions, which continuously improve the performance of existing assets, products, services or processes.
• Demonstrating an openness to new ideas and new ways of working.

Leadership:
• Build, develop and lead the mining team in line with instructions given by the Senior Underground Manager.

Environmental:
• Establish and maintain processes to ensure that all environmental risks and emerging issues are identified, and mitigation plans to put in place.

Planning:
• Establish and maintain processes to ensure the development of optimised short-term, and medium-term plans that ensure delivery of the budget requirements and the operations strategy.

Delivery:
• Ensure that the use of all resources is optimised to ensure delivery of the plan.
• Identify areas for improvement in operational blueprints (systems, processes, procedures and tasks) to ensure adherence to plan, reduce variation and maximise cost effective utilisation.
• Develop and implement systems to collect and manage operational data and to monitor performance.
• Establish and maintain systems for identifying opportunities to drive operational excellence.
• Ensure collaboration with all departments to achieve streamlined delivery to plan.

Compliance Accountabilities:
• Awareness/management of declaration of conflict of interest of direct reports
• Awareness/management of SOX control accountabilities
• Awareness/management of Delegation of Authority
• Awareness/management of reporting (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual) requirements

Additional requirements:
• Ability to lead senior technical specialists.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience working with the P500 and Operational Excellence (OE) initiatives or equivalent.
• Worked in highly mechanized Underground operations.
• Advanced knowledge in contract management practices, technical consultants and operational mining contracts.
• Advanced understanding of project management standards and has applied them in a minor – medium project to conceptual level.
• Demonstrate advance level of knowledge of planning systems and practices from long term to short term mine planning.
• The ability to work across all disciplines, where rigorous engagement and interaction is expected.
• The ability to handle conflict resolution.
• The ability to utilize equipment, office software -MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, mailings.
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing with good presentation and facilitation skills.
• The ability to use statistical methods to analyse, validate & verify analytical data with a strong attention to detail.
• The ability to work and communicate with people at all levels/good interpersonal skills.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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