Senior Hydrometallurgy Engineer

JobDescription

**Business Development/Marketing **

• Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by providing technical assistance to support Business Development and Marketing strategies

• Produce cost effective, conceptual & timeous proposals

• Determine customer’s requirements

• Communicate with customer and review customer’s enquiry documents and evaluate requirements and constraints

• Define the process/plant scope of work

• Produce the conceptual design and generate alternatives

• Produce and agree mass and energy balances and conceptual PFD’s

• Contribute to basic design criteria document through preliminary equipment & motor list, preliminary control criteria and major equipment & material specification

Project Life Cycle

• Provide Process engineering input to project implementation and Project set up

• Provide input to generate scope of work, schedules and budgets

• Refine scope of work, review contract and design discipline design criteria and engineering deliverables

• Define Battery limits and control and report scope variances

• Generate detail discipline schedules and review overall discipline requirements

• Contribute to procurement and identify long lead items

• Determine/prioritize work breakdown structure

• Issue data to planner

• Review/co-ordinate & adhere to schedule of implementation

• Control and report variances

• Generate and develop detail discipline budgets and identify indirect/resource costs

• Adhere to budget implementation and control and report budget variances

• Consolidate documentation for monthly project progress report

• Provide input to monthly discipline reports

• Provide feedback to functional manager

Design

• Generate the following engineering deliverables:

• Detailed mass & energy balance

• Detailed PFD’s

• Detailed equipment/motor list

• Equipment specifications

• Data Sheets (Develop & Approval)

• Operation & Control Philosophy

• Detailed functional specifications

• Write operating manual

• Generate detailed plant process guarantees

• Check and review design layouts, including vendor packages

• Adhere to schedules and budgets

• Issue, review and control final process design documentation

• Check and obtain approval of calculations and specifications

• Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs

Client Relations (Internal & External )

• Prepare approved vendor list and issue enquiry documents

• Perform technical and commercial adjudication

• Obtain client approval

• Participate in pre-award meetings, review quality plan and contract

• Review quality/expediting reports and witness key manufacturing hold points

• Provide technical backup for expediting team

• Proactively maintain information flow

• Attend co-ordination meetings

• Advise changes early

• Co-ordinate deliveries

• Adopt flexible approach

• Respond to needs of other disciplines

• Ensure awareness of Company vision and departmental goals/objectives

**Plant commissioning **

• Produce and submit commissioning plan/manual

• Determine critical path and establish commissioning sequence/schedule

• Define and secure resources

• Define battery limits of commissioning

• Define commissioning systems/procedure

• Produce commissioning files, including commissioning documentation

• Ensure commissioning meets project requirements

• Issue remedial inspection reports during construction

• Monitor installation and commissioning checklists

• Arrange and co-ordinate commissioning meetings

• Conduct on-site commissioning

• Provide technical back-up for site QA team

• Assist in performance testing in terms of design base

• Supervise and train operating personnel

• Contribute to close-out report and adhere to close out procedures

• Provide post-commissioning process support

• Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis

• Ensure regular visits/communications with client

Legislation, Policies & Procedures

• Lead design reviews and Hazops

• Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities

• Contribute to public participation process as per National Environmental Management Act (NEMA)

• Enforce process veto rights

• Maintain standards

• Adhere to and update Company standards

• Utilize engineering tools/systems

Continuous Improvement

• Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs

• Review industry standards making use of network periodicals, attending shows and conferences

• Identify areas of improvement

• Review all previous close-out report

• Review systems and procedures

• Recommend best practices

• Continuous professional development

• Identify and address training needs

Company Image

• Actively promote the Company’s professional image, both internally and externally

• Present technical papers

• Advertise in accordance with Company guidelines

• Interact with professional bodies

• Network and participation in seminars

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bsc/B.Eng Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy or Minerals Processing and ECSA registration as a professional engineer.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A proven experience of 5-8 years experience in industrial operations and successful technical design in any of the following - concentrators, smelters, leach plants and refineries for copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, gold, uranium, platinum group metals; coal washing plants, iron ore beneficiation plants, heavy mineral sands concentrators.

• Control Philosophy - Knowledge of how the plant should be controlled

• Construction & Commissioning -Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers’ interactions

• Risk Analysis -Ability to identify project and activates risk from any point of view including knowledge of hazard and operation HAZOP

• Value Engineering - Ability to optimize a process by adding value either as saving in cost or simplifying the process

• Process Flow Diagrams - Ability to produce, understand and deliver Process Flow diagrams

• Testing -Knowledge of testing techniques and procedures including specifications and interpretations of test works

• Equipment & Components - Knowledge of process, control, quality, electrical etc. equipment specifications, suppliers and features (including equipment installation and components)

• Legislation & Standards - Knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. Engineering, safety reqs, Audit regulations, Insurance laws etc.) and knowledge standard specifications (e.g. Plant layout requirements, etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards.

• Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand and communicate technical specifications

• Economical Awareness - Knowledge of economic fundamentals and ability to make estimations and proposing alternatives

• Process Simulation - Ability to simulate processes by means of software or other methodologies

• Mass balance - Ability to calculate (using software and spreadsheets) the mass balance of a process

• Process Design Criteria - Knowledge of parameters required to design the process

• Piping & Instrumentation - Diagram Ability to produce, understand and deliver piping and instrumentation diagrams AdditionalInformation