Job Description

Senior Process Engineer: designs, sizes, and commissions smelting processes/vessels (Submerged Arc & Open Bath Furnaces). Involved in sales and execution phases, from feasibility studies to EPC projects, and contributes to product development initiatives.

 Key responsibilities:

• Provide project related engineering and procurement deliverables and services for studies, tenders and projects.
• Preparation of process designs, Block Floe Diagrams, PFD's, P&ID's, and all technical process documents
• Develop and implement systems and procedures and manage support engineers, other discipline personnel and clients to successfully achieve their project objectives.
• Preliminary cost estimates for potential projects and budget proposals.
• Planning, design, specification, procurement, reporting, construction, commissioning and hand-over of project packages.
• Ensure scopes of works for various projects are correctly specified and matches budget.
• Manage all the resources in the best interest of the company
• Provide technical leadership and maintaining technical quality norms and standards, ensuring that appropriate technologies are incorporated into the designs, and they comply with the relevant engineering standards.
• Co-ordinating designs and drawing with all relevant engineering disciplines.
• Contribute to the development and or refining of all ISO aligned, process systems and procedures.
• Maintain professional registration(s) and keep up to date new technologies as well as changes in the application of current process technologies in the fields the company operates in.
• Knowledge sharing and transfer on all applicable processes and technologies including the primary and secondary beneficiation of all applicable ores into the products as required by the group clients.
• Compiling and delivering technical papers and presentations to further the company profile in the industry.

Qualifications (Typical):

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or metallurgical engineering, Pr Eng preferred.
• Relevant post graduate qualifications could be advantageous.

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of overall industry-relevant experience, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience within the field of electric smelting furnace process engineering and process plant design.
• Experience with mass and energy balances for pyrometallurgical processes from first principles through a relevant simulation package like HSC, Metsim. experience in the operation of electric smelting furnaces at a responsibility level that would allow the incumbent to make process decisions would be advantageous.
• Electric furnace commissioning experience
• Good theoretical knowledge of refractory materials and selection.
• Pyrometallurgical test work planning and execution – bench- to pilot scale.
• Modelling thermochemistry of pyrometallurgical processing in FACSTAGE.

Knowledge:

• Advanced understanding of process design principles and furnace sizing.
• Primary handling of ores with respect to electric smelting furnaces.
• Pyrometallurgical processing in SAFs / OBFs.
• All aspects of furnace design and operation.
• Industry codes/standards and interdepartmental practices and procedures.
• Pricing, tendering and budgeting principles, tools and control.
• Safety consciousness and application of good practice health and safety.
• Good understanding of best practices in the worldwide smelting industry.

Skills:

• Project scoping, costing, design and detail engineering.
• Project construction, supervision, commissioning and hand-over.
• Designing and developing new processes and integrating into existing processes.
• Maintaining and modifying existing systems
• Troubleshooting and problem solving
• Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment with design engineers and other internal staff
• Commercial awareness and sound written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Liaising with clients, suppliers, contractors and relevant authorities
• Project managing within cost and time constrained environments
• Understanding and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and quality standards
• Team leadership skills.
• Listening to, interpreting and understanding feedback from clients and team members.
• Organisational skills, planning, project management and prioritizing ability.
• Interpersonal motivational skills.
• The ability to work under pressure and to achieve deadlines.