Responsible for providing technical and metallurgical support to operations as well as supervision of personnel assigned to the role and technician.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate metallurgical accounting procedures and review metallurgical reports
• Identify and promote continuous plant improvement in order to achieve and surpass metallurgical KPIs
• Provide day to day technical metallurgical support and coaching to plant operations
• Prepare daily shift metallurgical balances, required operational reports and guidelines to operations personnel.
• Monitor and evaluate metallurgical performance and when required conduct test/survey programmes to improve plant recovery and costs
• Collaborate effectively with cross shift senior metallurgist to ensure smooth transition between rotations in order to provide continuous operational support.
• Take, record, and analyze readings of reagent consumptions
• Implement Lab results to achieve set KPIs

Preferred candidate qualifications & experience

• Grade 12 Full Certificate
• University degree in Metallurgy/Chemical Engineering from accredited institution
• Member of Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ
• All round on the job development in Process plant operations
• At least 2 years in a similar capacity