Job Vacancy Notice at Newmont Mining Corporation
POSITION: Process Metallurgist
Newmont is the world’s largest gold producer and also produces copper, silver, zinc, and lead. The Company’s world-class portfolio of assets, prospects, and talent is based in favourable mining countries such as Africa, Australia, Latin America the Caribbean, North America, and Papua New Guinea. Newmont is the sole gold producer on the S&P 500 Index and is well-known for its ethical environmental, social, and governance standards. The company is an industry leader in value generation, with strong safety standards, exceptional execution, and technological excellence. Newmont was created in 1921, and it has been publicly traded since 1925.
At Newmont, employees generate value in the metals we mine and serve as ambassadors in the communities where they live and work. As a team, we create an atmosphere that supports our people vision, in which everyone belongs, thrives, and is respected. We have created a diverse and inclusive environment in which our employees may use their diversity to help deliver outcomes together.
Our Africa activities employ roughly 5,900 employees and contractors, the majority of whom work at the Ahafo Mine. We provide an exceptional combination of opportunity and career fulfillment, as well as all the advantages that you would expect from a global corporation. This, paired with our growth prospects, makes Newmont an excellent place to work.
Our Akyem and Ahafo mines have made considerable long-term community development investments in their host communities. These include establishing Development Funds in our Akyem and Ahafo operations zones, with each mine contributing US$1 per ounce of gold sold and 1% of net pre-tax yearly profit to the community development fund.
Join us and discover your potential in a global organization that is defining the future of the mining sector.
About this Role:
To provide technical support for site operations. This will require preparing and analyzing laboratory or plant samples, conducting and monitoring laboratory and plant tests, and communicating and reporting results to appropriate parties.
In this role, you will:
Technical Functions
- Conduct weekly GAP checks on main crushers and analyze the results.
- Conduct a monthly crusher product size analysis and provide operational advice on the crusher product.
- Conduct a daily weightometer assessment on CV003.
- Coordinate the rate of adding grinding media to all mills.
- Ensure that the automated ball chargers work at all times.
- Monitor the mill’s parameters to verify they are running within the specified parameters (power, weight, inlet and discharge water addition rates, hopper levels, densities, circulation load ratio, cyclone pressure, and so on).
- Monitor the pebble crusher’s output and coordinate gap adjustment. Ensure that the weekly pebble crusher feed and product size analysis are completed and relayed to stakeholders.
- Coordinate mill relining works during shutdowns.
- Ensure that the mill liners required for each relining are always accessible.
- Coordinate and update the downtime estimator.
- Ensure that liner measurement and profiling are completed during shutdown using both the manual and scan approaches.
- Ensure that pebble dewatering screens and trommel screen panels are always available.
- Compile, analyze, and interpret mill slicer information to guide process operations.
- Ensure that cyclone components are available at all times for repair work.
- Coordinate with the supply chain (SC) to ensure that grinding media is always available for all mills.
- Ensure that a quarterly quality assurance and quality control (QAQC) analysis of grinding media is completed.
- Take daily belt cut samples from CV003 and CV001 for moisture content analysis.
- Ensure that all carbon in leach (CIL) and tails autosamplers, cyanide analyzers, online pH meters, DO meters, densitometers, and flowmeters are operational at all times.
- Ensure that carbon quality checks on fresh and circuit carbon are conducted every quarter.
- Before transferring to carbon in leach (CIL) tanks, be sure that all fresh carbon has been conditioned.
Health, Safety, and Environment
- Meet all Newmont Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental regulations.
- Accept personal responsibility for the health and safety of all employees under his or her direction.
- Comply with all HSLP, environmental, and social responsibility criteria outlined in
- Newmont’s Integrated Management System, as well as the company’s mission and principles.
- Participate in appropriate incident/accident investigations and take corrective measures to avoid injury and/or recurrence.
- Raise, discuss, and resolve safety, environmental, and social responsibility concerns at regular meetings.
- Identify potential hazards and respond appropriately.
- Demonstrate compliance with standards and practices by wearing obligatory protective clothes and PPE as needed.
- Reporting and addressing dangerous actions or circumstances.
- Actively participating in safety meetings and promoting safe working practices.
- Strict compliance with specified standard operating procedures (SOPs), standard task permits (STPs), work policies, and security measures.
- Actively participating in hazard detection and correction.
- Reporting environmental spills quickly and taking proper precautions to prevent contamination.
- Attend all safety meetings.
Your Training, Skills, and Experience:
Formal qualifications (including professional registrations):
- A degree in extractive metallurgy or similar.
Additional knowledge:
- Understanding of metallurgical principles and industrial norms.
- Knowledge of metallurgical plant equipment.
- Knowledge of the statutory regulations governing safety and the environment.
Experience:
- Three years or more of field experience, as well as experience with metallurgical processes.
- Knowledge and comprehension of statutory regulations governing mining safety and the environment.
Technical Skills:
- Analytic and problem-solving abilities.
- Advanced written and vocal communication abilities, as well as interpersonal skills.
- Advanced computer literacy in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Information monitoring and management abilities.
- Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize.
- Effective project management skills.
- Statistical and mathematical abilities.
- Capable of managing change.
- The ability to understand metallurgical engineering drawings.
Behavioural Attributes:
- Analytical.
- Pay attention to detail.
- Decisive.
- Goal focused.
- Takes initiative.
- Proactive.
- Reliable.
- Independent.
- Focused on results.
- Safety conscious.
- A team player.
Working Conditions
- The work is located on the Akyem mine site.
- The profession entails certain physical and visual duties that demand concentration and coordination.
- The job needs you to handle hazardous products and equipment safely and responsibly.
- You must adhere to safety rules and procedures and use protective gear at all times.
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) According to the working conditions, mandatory PPE includes a helmet, goggles, high visibility clothes, a safety harness, ear plugs, and a dust mask.
How to Apply for this Job Vacancy at Newmont Mining Corporation
Closing Date: October 30, 2024
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