- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Contract
- Sectors: Mining
- Reference: 189848
Vacancy Details
Employer: Ivanhoe Mines
KAMOA COPPER SA is looking for a Specialised Officer, Spares Parts
The Kamoa Copper Mine is a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines (39.6%), Zijin Mining Group (39.6%), Crystal River Global Limited (0.8%) and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (20%). It's a very large, near-surface, flat-lying, stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, at approximately 25 kilometres west of the town of Kolwezi and about 270 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi.
Play your part in our team succeeding....
To monitor, coordinate and control the spare parts of the Plant, ensuring availability for operations. The incumbent ensures spare parts are available, delivered and accepted in a timely fashion. The scope / portfolio of this role includes creating and maintaining an equipment register, quality control, responding to breakdowns, and thereby ensuring Plant availability.
You will have the following:
- Must have a degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Must have 3-5 years’ working experience in equipment management
- Experience in the mining environment highly advantageous
- Proficiency in business English is mandatory. Working knowledge of French will be considered highly advantageous.
Role Specific Knowledge Skills:
- Managing equipment and parts
- Smelter procurement, maintenance and equipment management Standard Operating Procedures
Technical Skills
- Understanding smelter systems, methodology and equipment used
Personal Competencies should include:
- Problem solving
- Analytical and systematic
- Integrity and objectivity
- Risk awareness and management
- Organisation
- Customer Service orientation
- Communication and presentation
- Flexibility and adaptability – think on feet
- Coordination
- Eye for detail; meticulous
Your Key Performance Activities will include but not limited to:
- Process: Maintain the Smelter’s spare parts
- Deliver work according to Standard Operating Procedures
- Manage the Spare Parts and Equipment Information
- Manage the Spare Parts and Equipment of the Smelter
- Stakeholder Management -Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
- People - Manage self and show up as a good team player
- Finance - Reduce costs and waste
- Transformation -Support the Transformation agenda
- HSEQ: Integrate HSEQ into all work processes
- Adhere to and improve reporting processes for the area of responsibility
When applying, please submit a PDF version of your CV together with certified copies (certification within a 3-month period) of your ID/passport, drivers' license and qualifications.
Should you not hear from us within 30 days of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
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About Ivanhoe Mines
Ivanhoe Mines is a leading Canadian mining company committed to becoming a global leader in the supply of critical resources required to transition our world to a low-carbon, renewable future.
Ivanhoe is focused on developing and expanding its four principal mining and exploration projects in Southern Africa.
The development of the Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), the Platreef palladium-rhodium-platinum-nickel-copper-gold discovery in South Africa, the extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, also in the Democratic Republic of Congo and exploration on the Western Foreland, near Kamoa-Kakula
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