Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 15 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job description:
Purpose of the role
Job & Candidate Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
• Leading a team of around 70 technical and operations personnel in the safe, effective and environmentally responsible management of the TSF and 4 large water dams
• Ongoing conformance, and improvements to, the Tailings and Dam Management System (TDMS) and the GISTM Alignment initiative in accordance with corporate guidelines
• Maintain a full life-cycle approach to dam management and all associated assets linked to dam management across planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance and planning for closure
• Ensuring key dams management documentation is followed and updated per the TDMS, and procedures and records are sufficient for dam quality control and assurance
• Ongoing review of operating targets and processes that ensure business continuity
• Applying a proactive approach to regulatory requirements and relevant guidelines
• Ensuring adequate resourcing and an effective team organizational structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for cost-effective tailings and water dam management
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships within the TSF team members and their interaction with other departments, for example, TSF construction, projects, process and environmental
• Identify continuous improvement projects and opportunities within the operations to improve dam integrity, work practices and procedures
• Development of capital and operational budgets and associated performance reporting
• Ensure the completion of daily, weekly, monthly dam inspections and reporting by internal staff as well as Dam Safety Inspections by external consultants
• Pro-actively manage the dams Risk Management processes, spanning risk identification, critical controls, planned controls, TARPs and corrective actions
• Maintain team awareness of dam’s risk identification and safety via regular training programs
• Ongoing improvement to dams monitoring, IoT and Early Warning Systems
• Ensure effective planning and management of the TSF development including tailings deposition, decant pond levels, beach length and freeboard
• Capacity building a Zambian dam workforce, in collaboration with corporate, including recruitment, succession planning, coherent Learning and Development programs and initiatives across technical and operations
• Promote the FQML approach of Smarter, Bolder, Driven and Together and THINK safety program

Qualifications Required:
• A Degree in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering

Experience & Skills Required:
• At least 15 years of experience across several Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) and ideally exposure to Large Water Dams
• At least 10 years onsite experience in tailings management
• Working knowledge of ANCOLD and ICOLD guidelines, if not also the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) or Mining Association of Canada (MAC) Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) guidelines
• Experience with the construction and management of upstream cyclone sand TSFs
• Strong leadership and team building skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 168

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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