General Foreman Concentrator support and maintenance

General Foreman - Concentrator Support & Maintenance

Location:

Stillwater Mine - Nye MT

Schedule:

7X7 Nightshift

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

The General Foreman - Concentrator leads the safe compliant reliable and cost-effective operation of the mine-site concentrator surface haulage and TSF capping/IBWR placement. The role owns the rolling one- to three-month plan and translates it into resource-ready executable one-week plans for frontline supervisors. The General Foreman anticipates and removes constraints coordinates operating and maintenance dependencies develops supervisors and employees and holds the department accountable for throughput recovery concentrate quality equipment availability process stability environmental performance TSF project schedule adherence and cost.

The General Foremans primary duties are:

• Set concentrator safety health and environmental priorities for the one- to three-month planning horizon based on operating risk incidents inspections audit findings equipment condition process changes and planned work.
• Ensure one-week plans include required hazards permits procedures qualifications isolations environmental controls and emergency-response requirements.
• Ensure work complies with MSHA requirements environmental permits company standards Critical Task Analyses Standard Operating Procedures and applicable training requirements.
• Confirm employees and contractors have the tools training qualifications procedures and supervision required for upcoming work.
• Establish clear expectations decision authority and escalation requirements for concentrator supervisors and other direct reports.
• Hold supervisors accountable for translating approved one-week plans into daily and shift assignments and for safe disciplined field execution.
• Maintain an appropriately staffed and qualified workforce by addressing vacancies attendance leave overtime training relief coverage and contractor needs across the planning horizon.
• Apply performance attendance conduct labor-relations and employment practices consistently with company policy and the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• Establish and maintain operating standards for crushing conveying grinding classification flotation reagent addition slurry transfer thickening filtration concentrate handling water systems and related process areas.
• Coordinate equipment access shutdowns start-ups commissioning return to service and production impacts with maintenance metallurgy engineering operations and support functions.
• Authorize significant changes to weekly priorities staffing equipment allocation overtime contractor use break-in work and temporary operating arrangements within delegated authority.
• Own and lead development of the annual concentrator operating budget establishing credible assumptions and requirements for labor overtime reagents grinding media operating supplies contractors consumables equipment usage energy water and other departmental costs.
• Manage resources within approved budgets and hold supervisors accountable for responsible use of labor equipment materials energy water reagents and contractors.
• Monitor the cost and production effects of downtime reduced recovery quality deviations process instability rework excessive consumption and unplanned work.
• Evaluate forecast accuracy and weekly performance against the one- to three-month plan; assign actions for variances in safety throughput recovery quality availability consumption and cost.
• Maintain effective communication of plant status future risks constraints work in progress and required follow-up across shifts and departments.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Concentrator operations and the interaction of crushing conveying grinding classification flotation reagent systems slurry transport thickening filtration concentrate handling water management and related utilities.
• Fundamental mineral-processing and metallurgical concepts including throughput recovery grade mass balance particle size density reagent control residence time and process variability.
• Critical thinking judgement and problem-solving
• Leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret process trends metallurgical results production schedules technical drawings procedures specifications and equipment records.
• MSHA requirements and site standards governing safety environmental compliance energy isolation employee training examinations incidents contractors and operating practices.
• Process-control systems alarms trends instrumentation operating-data interpretation environmental controls annual operating-budget development cost control financial forecasting workforce planning labor relations and contractor management.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five or more years of progressive concentrator mineral-processing metallurgical or closely related heavy-industrial operations experience.
• At least two years of experience leading employees as a frontline supervisor or equivalent operational leader.
• 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
• Associate or bachelors degree in metallurgy mineral processing chemical engineering mining engineering mechanical engineering operations management or a related field preferred.
• Demonstrated experience developing annual operating budgets establishing resource and cost assumptions allocating resources reviewing performance and responding to processes equipment or financial constraints preferred.
• Experience using JDE SAP Oracle a distributed-control or process-control system historian software or another production and asset-management platform preferred.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color creed religion sex (including pregnancy and gender identity) national origin political affiliation sexual orientation or preference marital or family status disability genetic information age parental status military service or other non-merit factor.